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Live blog: Team Sunweb channel Mission Impossible, swerving cyclist intentionally blocking car infuriates social media (but is all as it seems?),+ more
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Mon, Oct 01, 2018 14:22
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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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Sriracha 1 hour ago
@Smoggysteve "I normally wouldn’t condone buying a cheap Chinese copy..." Actually, I think I'd go with the Seconda strap line here: "Beware of expensive imitations."
No Reply 2 hours ago
The survey is shite. I have got to a point where it will not let me continue because I have done everything correctly so far.
belugabob 4 hours ago
Yes, it uses the same technology that is used to prevent that behaviour by motorists...🙄
Barraob1 4 hours ago
@SecretSam yeah, the same one you find in cars
Barraob1 4 hours ago
@SecretSam yeah, the same one you find in cars
mdavidford 7 hours ago
I have an idea who it might have been.
chrisonabike 8 hours ago
Apparently this pavement in Wales has proved too narrow for at least 3 drivers! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9w4vdxrz9do .. Although apparently this is an "accidentally put a walking route in the sat-nav" issue.
60somethingcyclist 14 hours ago
@chrisonabike It'll get a lot more unfit if we don't change our ways. This vote was nothing more than councillors worrying about losing votes. We need to change our ways urgently, for the sake of our health and our survival as well as for economic reasons. In short, the UK needs some tough love. Burnham needs to have the moral courage to force local authorities to make these changes in the same way as the Dutch did in 1973. The then Dutch PM's words are still relevant today:- "The world from before the oil crisis will not return. We will have to adjust to a permanent shift in our way of life and our economic management." We need to change, like it or not.
chrisonabike 15 hours ago
@60somethingcyclist yes, and a fair amount of that is 3 miles or less, and there are even lots of "one mile or under". But... with any aging and increasingly unfit (in many ways) population 3 miles there and then back seems a big deal. Particularly since the mental model is still "drive or walk" for most. Of course use of "cycles" helps ameliorate several of these issues. But it's a change not only in thought but in "how society works" (where you're expected to get to, carrying what) AND usually the built environment (with high- value items like those shops, schools and hospitals we've increasingly centralised.
tomlew 15 hours ago
@Destroyer666 Silca occupy the super-premium market. Muc-Off, while upmarket, is definitely lower tier. Yes, chemical engineering and R&D are expensive. Still, Muc-Off products simply are not that good compared to many other brands, hence my BS comment earlier.
12 thoughts on “Live blog: Team Sunweb channel Mission Impossible, swerving cyclist intentionally blocking car infuriates social media (but is all as it seems?),+ more”
Hmmmm….the swerving cyclist
Hmmmm….the swerving cyclist?
Any video we post to a police authority as evidence of dodgy driving needs to contain at least 5mins of video prior to the alledged incident? Unless the OP has this additional content that shows them driving along minding his own business and being viciously swerved infront of by this cyclist then I’d be healthily sceptical of the nature of this clip.
Riders rarely (I won’t say never!) go off on one at a vehicle putting themselves in very significant danger without due cause?
No sound on the video so can
No sound on the video so can’t tell if the car is beeping or not.
…additionally it’s no
…additionally it’s no longer accessible on Faceache #justsaying
boardmad wrote:
It’s still on FB, just went for a look.
The other day, I was watching The Purge TV series, and was discussing with the better half, as to whether we thought that if murder was legal for one night of the year, would we or anyone we know actually go out and kill. Given the comments on the FB post, I would suggest not riding on Purge night.
I’ve seen it so many times on forums, but it still worries me how many people think that its OK to suggest murdering someone, because they ride a bike.
My bad…I don’t use the
My bad…I don’t use the facebook so am probably doing it wrong.
I’ve given up being disappointed with heinous driving behaviours…I got yelled at, then swerved and brake-tested coming into town last week just because I filtered infront of stationary traffic at a light then had the temerity to be infront of a van who objected on principle to my existence.
If I’d got that wrong and come off infront of traffic behind me, that van driver would have killed someone…plain and simple.
Swerving cyclist – I’d says
Swerving cyclist – I’d says he’s being a bit of a dick.
I’d find it hard to defend
I’d find it hard to defend the cyclist – if the driver behind is being a dick then it is usually better to let them get ahead and away from you as soon as possible. Nothing good can come from swerving like that in front of a driver.
But there must have been a trigger to the behaviour – interesting that there is no sound and no earlier footage. It looks like the video was taken on a phone rather than a dashcam, so why was the passenger (I’m assuming) filming at that point unless there had been an earlier incident between the cyclist and the driver?
Any other comments on the internet about this? The facebook post only seems to have about 5 replies, which isn’t what I was expecting from the title which suggested social media was erupting over this.
There’s reference to an
There’s reference to an original video which shows more of the story, plus a comment about the driver *thinking* he had given them enough room. Has anyone seen it? The hate and the violence on that FB thread is too depressing to trawl through to see if anyone linked it.
The guy is a major cock, if
The guy is a major cock, if just for playing with his own life. I’m assuming he also wouldn’t have done that if 2, 16 stone rugby players were in the car.
If he’d ended up under the wheels I doubt the police would have prosecuted the driver based on that evidence.
The reason I can think of for doing it is it’s actually Mark Cavendish practicing his sprint finishes.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
I think he must be a relatively new cyclist too. He’s clearly not done that much before as it wouldn’t take long before he meets a motorist who is as much of a nob as he is. And crunch.
Let the nobby driver go – at least they’re ahead of you and not about to mow you down.
fenix wrote:
Ditto the above.
Whatever the driver was doing, riding like this is nothing but stupid.
If someone is driving like an idiot, then it’s so much easier (and not to mention safer) to let them get by.
Someone cycling like that shouldn’t be on the road.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Not sure about that. I’m confident drivers aren’t allowed to run over cyclists for riding like dicks.
Surely, in the same way the safest thing for the cyclist is to let the mental driver to get past, isn’t the safest thing for the driver to let the mental cyclist get out of the way rather than continuing to try and force past in that situation?