Live blog: Is this the new Ronnie Pickering? The Mirror make epic Tour de France preview fail + more
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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perce 15 minutes ago
@chrisonabike I don't know how they would get confused - one's called Jack and one's called Nigel.
Mr Blackbird 15 minutes ago
There is so much depressing deja vu here. The defence factors taken from the usual tick box list : "poor lighting", "dark clothes", "didn't see him" etc. The usual rehabilitation path comments : "full of remorse". The common previous : "drugs, and alcohol", "no licence" etc. Even your comments about the tipper truck industry ring a bell. Look up the 1957 British film "Hell Drivers", if you haven't seen it. It must have have been inspired by events of the time. I did wonder why Renshaw had been on remand. Was he a flight risk?
Midgex 26 minutes ago
The cycle path at that point is (part of) the main road, not the side road.
mctrials23 28 minutes ago
Its not fucking careless if you drive a vehicle and don't check your mirrors. Its fucking dangerous and its fucking deadly. How on earth are we still dealing with this bollocks. Everything about this is maddening. The fact he tried to weasel out of it and blame the cyclist. The fact hes avoided prison. The fact he was still driving after such a long history of dangerous driving. The fact he is still only banned for 12 months despite killing someone due to his inability to drive safely.
the little onion 44 minutes ago
The tipper truck industry is an absolute Wild West. Scandal ridden, partly because of the complete lack of regulatory oversight and the pay-by-the-load system which incentives dodgy driving. I hope there is an investigation into the firm’s recruitment process and a corporate manslaughter charge. We urgently need a HSE investigation into the whole industry
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
Perhaps they're confusing the writer with a certain - ahem - new poster?
ktache 1 hour ago
My deepest condolences to the family and friends of Zinovly Savyulak.
mdavidford 1 hour ago
Sounds like a recommendation to me - after all, who'd want their writing to be emotionally empty?
mdavidford 1 hour ago
I think MM's point is more fatally flawed than that - people *do* complain about inequality in running. There might be less inequality than in cycling, but there's still an over-representation of white people and barriers to participation.
Jack Sexty 2 hours ago
@MaxiMinimalist Sorted 👍
18 thoughts on “Live blog: Is this the new Ronnie Pickering? The Mirror make epic Tour de France preview fail + more”
Mirror – chateau!
Mirror – chateau!
davel wrote:
Chateau!?
UK Cycling Expert daftness.
UK Cycling Expert daftness.
Well canal guy was, err, what
Well canal guy was, err, what I can only describe as a throwback. I was into eugenics I’d be round his with a pair bricks to the knackers to stop the line.
Trouble with pricks like that they are looking for any ‘good guy’ excuse to be a bad guy.
“but the cyclist was doing 11mph, I had to drown them so nobody got hurt”
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
there was a time, before British Waterways was turned into the charity Canal and Rver Trust that it is now, only in 2012, when you were supposed to have a permit to cycle on the towpat. So perhaps he’s emerged from a pre-2012 time tunnel. Don’t tell him the Olympics have been and gone.
I thought the cyclist did
I thought the cyclist did very well to keep so calm with that idiot by the canal. you know some people are trouble just by their cammo shorts and T. It sounded like he’d been on the booze too just to add to his already minimal IQ.
DrG82 wrote:
— DrG82you know you’re unintelligent when boozing increases your IQ.
I look forward to the video when I get home.
The term ‘mouth-breather’
The term ‘mouth-breather’ springs immediately to mind…
I still have my permit, sits
I still have my permit, sits in my bag.
never ridden on a tow path,
never ridden on a tow path, can’t say this would ever lure me to do so either.
Pedestrians should walk in
Pedestrians should walk in single file on the side of shared paths, and wear a bright yellow jacket so they can be seen.
kingleo wrote:
They should have clanging bells too, like Alpine cows.
PRSboy wrote:
And helmets and Mae Wests.
Its actually difficult to
Its actually difficult to tell if Canal Guy is genuinely trying to be doing something for the public good or if he’s just a bit pi$$ed and being an @rse. Even the worst of the “This. Is. A. Footpath!” type people don’t ever actually stand right in front of you with their arms outstretched (at least, not in my experience).
(BTW – is that his boat or is he just nicking something from it?
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brooksby wrote:
Dunno, but there is something oddly compelling about his “Dismount when there’s pedestrians!” and the rallying cry “Pedestrians have the privilege!”
His camouflage outfit adds to the aura of canal path commando.
Less impressive was the cyclist pedalling off and leaving the lady cyclist in the clutches of the bloke who’d threatened him.
“Angry Canal Man”. One too
“Angry Canal Man”. One too many Cs in that.
burtthebike wrote:
No there is definitely one C in that picture.
Leviathan wrote:
Canal! Do I win a prize?