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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Well, just when you think you've seen everything, someone puts up a bench in the cycle lane. No lights, no high viz, and it's black but cyclists are supposed to be able to see it perfectly clearly, unlike drivers who can't seen things even when they are lit up like a christmas tree.
What would have happened if a cyclist had ridden into it and been injured? Would the owner of the bench be prosecuted for obstruction of the highway and crass stupidity?
Kill a cyclist. No jail.
Call them gay. Jail.
Justice served
Rick, whilst I understand the rightous rage, the actions of this scrote was deliberate, involved spitting which is assault (watching Police Interceptors (catching Wrong'uns in cars) the officers say they would rather be punched than spat upon) and included hate speech.
He really didn't help himself either.
Previous convictions for violence too.
Least we can all laugh at the fact he had a temper tantrum as he was taken away
He obviously has some pretty serious issues of his own, whatever they may be, and without excusing them, perhaps he needs some understanding. He didn't kill anyone, or endanger them, but he gets sent to prison while killer drivers go free, and no mention of any treatment for whatever he is suffering from. While I can't condone his actions, does he really deserve prison?
He's a cunt. End of story.
That description could be applied to any number of people, yet they're not in jail.
your quote above has me intrigued,is it possible you could publish the full story not just the end bit .
May I mention that I own 2 helicopters a small horse and a griffin and may well be a man ? Fucking Boooo to this sort of thing and it's definitely time for facial recognition and intimate strips searches and police with special brain wi fi to arrest us just in case we do something bad or say the Queen is a robot and the real queen died 33 years ago or something .
Have you tried putting more water with whatever you're drinking, or sniffing the powder a little less? Have you sought help for your addiction?
Is it still homophobic abuse if you (the person being abused) aren't gay?
(I still remember the time I was walking near my office one lunchtime in a suit, black overcoat, and a black homburg hat (which admitted I later decided didn't really suit me, but hey...) and some passing bloke shouted at me and called me an f-ing Jew).
Hmmm, Health and Safety reasons for not allowing someone to push their bike through a shopping centre. Yet double prams, shopping trollies and powered wheelchairs are no problem.
Or if it isn't H&S but "dirt", well then think of all those people walking in there with the same shoes they wore outside! I mean, the centre should really provide those blue bags like on Silent Witness...
I aquired a handful of those blue shoe covers from my last place of work, they were for the contractors doing ground work, they make excellent saddle covers when leaving leather saddles parked up when it might rain. They weigh virtually nothing (3.0g) and stuff very easily under the saddle.
Being from Hull I am well acquainted with St Stephens and, to be fair, it isn't too bad as shopping areas go, but the security personnel are neither use nor ornament. A few years ago, my wife used their "secure" bicycle parking when out on her brand new bike for the very first time (it being a replacement for one stolen a few weeks earlier) and two St Stephens security guards stood and watched as someone cut through both her locks and made off with it.
The centre never even apologised.
Re the shopping centre. Which "rights" were breached exactly? A shopping centre is private property, so if they say no bikes it means no bikes.
That Cambridge barrier is shocking.
I wish I could easily post a picture of it.
To me it looks like a mid-estate footpath barrier that would have a No Cycling roundall sign with it. Very 1970s. Not on a 4-5 metre wide shared use route on a brand new development in Britians cycling capitol.
The motorists in that huge queue, they sit in that every single day. Some days worse, occasionally slightly better, summer school holidays account for most of the better ones. Never their fault. It's others, especially the cyclists slowing them down.
We all know roads like this, and I cycle past and through them never understanding it, no matter how cold or wet it is.
And people staring at smartphones make it worse. There the ones who take an extra 5 or 10 seconds to start moving off. Staring at their groins because they don't wat to get caught, totally unaware of their surroundings let alone what is going on right in front of them.
Wonderful trolling by the BEAT Cycling club. An almost perfect example of British style piss taking (or did we steal it from the Dutch?). Bravo! ;P
To mark the leaving of the EU just done the opposite of Beat cycling club. No charge for tickets. Interesting that I started from a village called St Beat in France. Cycled through two international border crossings without hindrance. Thank you European Union. Please keep up the good work and don't blame all of us.
I don't think much has changed in the last forty years. Back before we had even joined the EU* I would regularly drive through European border posts and find the guards asleep or reading a book and even the conscious ones would often just wave us through. Human nature and all that ....
* Or Common Market as it was.
How old are you - if you don't mind me asking?
It was just a symbolic gesture. I'm just hoping that some sense comes out of it, and as an 'Englishman abroad', that the free movement doesn't get interrupted. I remember those days of real borders. Where I drive now the police are after drugs and contraband.