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angry canal man: YouTube, steppenjiff.PNGLive blog: Is this the new Ronnie Pickering? The Mirror make epic Tour de France preview fail + more
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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"Angry Canal Man". One too many Cs in that.
No there is definitely one C in that picture.
Canal! Do I win a prize?
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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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.
Pedestrians should walk in single file on the side of shared paths, and wear a bright yellow jacket so they can be seen.
They should have clanging bells too, like Alpine cows.
And helmets and Mae Wests.
never ridden on a tow path, can't say this would ever lure me to do so either.
I still have my permit, sits in my bag.
The term 'mouth-breather' springs immediately to mind...
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.
you know you're unintelligent when boozing increases your IQ.
I look forward to the video when I get home.
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"
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.
UK Cycling Expert daftness.
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Mirror - chateau!
Chateau!?