Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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In defence of Hitchen's 'the bus driver was not English' comment, this did come after explaining that he didn't know if other countries had laws that require cyclists to use cycle paths, where provided, so it was actually relevant to his story.
The link to the Peter Hetchins article doesn't work, but this one should https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2018/12/how-prejudice-against-cy...
Never thought I'd say this about a Mail article, but it describes perfectly the blatant prejudice which has been stirred up by......The Mail. Fortunately the comments return us to the sanity of the normal DM reader, in spades, demonstrating a prejudice and ignorance so massive that they would instantly be convicted of various crimes if the comments were about racial, sexual or religious groups.
And Peter Hetchins has a refreshingly realistic view of helmets https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/11/cycle-helmets-for-everyo...
Don't worry, normal service resumed in "Pedestrians, cyclists and bus passengers should get priority when new roads are built to help tackle the obesity crisis - not the motorists who paid for them, health watchdog says"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6555841/Pedestrians-cyclist-pub...
Thanks, I think. Who could have predicted that?
Thibau Nys: Mesmeric stair avoidance skills, shirley?
Can't help noticing the difference in the language used in the mayor's collision with that used by our media in the UK. He was "struck by a motor vehicle" but the same incident in this country would be "cyclist collided with car". Yet another demonstration of quite how car-obsessed we are in this country if even the Americans report car/bike collisions much more objectively.
Sadly, I've had cause to read thousands of US press reports on collisions involving cyclists over the past decade; I'd say this one is very much an exception, if anything the general standard of reporting them is even more prejudiced against the rider than it is here (and for some reason, even more so when the victim is a child).
Thank you for sharing your experience; I doubt that many people have read that many USA cyclist/car collision reports.