Cyclist seriously injured after car passenger pushes him off bike during time trial

What a virtuous circle - consume less to reduce food miles! So I would then lose weight and ride up hills faster too!!! Another justification to my aim to one day not live up to my name!!!

Got myself a rear facing camera after a similar incident in Kent. Got kicked off the bike by 2 guys on a scooter on an early hour commute. Police couldn't/wouldn't do anything for exactly the same reasons. I couldn't describe the scooter or couldn't give a number plate.

Fly6 camera is pretty good. Excellent video quality and a good light.

Heavy Karma coming for those lowlife f*cktards. Hope they get caught out and punished.....

Re:

"His brother had been riding behind, but he just thought I had a puncture and rode on"

I'm struggling to understand that. Would have thought he must have seen something

Can anyone give me a good reason why our society allows people to have deadly metal boxes that belch out poison gases and attact murderous swine?

You won't get contact DNA from someone's touch unless it's prolonged and repeated contact, such as being throttled or forcibly held and even then the odds of a positive outcome are extremely low. It also depends on the offenders biological make up which determines their stress levels, sweat levels and sebum production.

Don't unfairly bash the local plod when all you have is a blue car.....

Im surprised tho that someone who is a really serious cycling enthusiast with a club doing TT events who is abused as often as is claimed has not yet got a cycle or helmet cam. But that's just me

Further proof that Essex is not fit for human habitation

Exactly how people get killed ...

Get a Cycliq Fly6. Well worth it.

The police should at the mimimum be able to take some DNA from where he touched you (unless he/she was wearing gloves of course)

Maybe it should made illegal to commit a crime and not leave your details at the scene?

I have a Cyclic Fly 6 rear light and camera. A full charge will usually see me thru' a week's commute.   I bought mine after being hit from behind at a set of lights. 

Cameras will not prevent an incident but will help afterwards.

This is a serious assault occassioning actual if not grievous bodily harm. I hope his club make representations to the local Police service for proper investigation or escalate the matter via British Cycling or whichever body the TT is run under.

Not that any of us should have to, but there is a lot to be said for being equipped with a video camera, especially if threatening behaviour is a common occurence.

Get a rear facing camera.

Saw the pictures of his face on Twitter earlier - looks like he's been beaten round the face. Fucking lowlife pieces of shit.

If they had targeted a homosexual/transexual/Asian/black person then this would be a hate crime and there would be no stops barred in finding the perpetrator. But as it was only a cylist they tried to seriously injure, not much can be done.