Tour in Yorkshire… not everyone's happy about expected influx of cyclists

bit of a pointless article here. Of course some people won't be happy. After all it will be all loss for many as they will get an influx of cyclists which isn't always nice, even if they are angelic, and get nothing for it. Any gains will be for the wider community and very often that means just a few. Just like the Olympics. I won't see any benefit but I do see negatives.
To be honest all these comments, even mine would be better off not being published, including the news item. How about an extra pic of a nice bike instead?

This does highlight one major concern of mine; the selfish few causing problems for the majority.

I would guess that that a tiny number of people have ridden like plonkers through the villages but, of course, they are the ones that stand out and are remembered by the locals who then see everyone as being a problem.

What does it cost to think about the effect on others round you, slow down a fraction when coming though a place people live etc.? After all that is exactly what we want car and truck drivers to do for us.

it was me - i knocked out the 40/50mph through the village - don't really like to boast about it - will fire the strava info up in a mo

oh sorry about that mirror but u know it was in my way

There seem to be a small minority of people in power with loud voices that spout this anti-cycling tripe and surely it is tantamount to 'incitement' by all means prosecute any one for cycling illegally but don't stir up trouble and incite road rage.

Just did a tiny bit of research. 40mph on the flat would require on output of around 1400watts. TdF riders manager less than half of that!

"Riding Furiously ..."

Love it ...

During Sportives I have seen groups of cyclists run red lights and it is annoying. I have never seen a cyclist take off a wing mirror but have seen a few cyclists taken down by one on a moving car.

My biggest bugbear after a mass ride is the number of dropped gel wrappers (not a concern of the article I note).

The comments on the Craven Herald non-story are refreshing. Only one gibbering simpleton blethering about pavement cyclists, and everyone else calmly and logically taking this piece of dimwitted hackery apart.

I'll make a mental note never to spend any money in Embsay in future though, nasty little NIMBYs.

Shock - rotund rural councillor is a cycling bigot.

If papers (local and national) weren't so desperate to try and keep themselves relevant in the digital economy then the views of these idiots wouldn't get any publicity.

From the picture of Councillor Quinn, it looks like he could do with getting on a bike, the weight loss might lower his blood pressure back down.

Not sure it'd help with his lack of common sense though.

I think there's something up with the link to the Craven Herald. It's a local newspaper's website and there doesn't seem to be a single mention of "Road tax" or "Red light jumping" in the comments. Someone fleetingly mentioned pavement cyclists, but that's it. Might be worth looking into.

"Welcome to Yorkshire"....but NIMBY.

To be honest I was ashamed of the Craven Herald newspaper for printing the councillors remarks as a news story with no evidence to back up his comments. Clearly nobody at the newspaper had read through his comments and weighed up firstly is it possible to ride through Embsay at 40 - 50 mph three abreast or is it really likely that cyclists are somehow removing car mirrors? As i said in my comments on the original article, it would be very hard to knock off a wing mirror without sustaining injuries to your hand or having a major stack into the tarmac.

This morning by 8.30 school run time in Embsay main street, two logging trucks had passed through the village - surely a far more likely culprit than a cyclist, if any wing mirrors are actually going missing? Have missing wing mirrors been reported to the police?

Love the switch at the Craven Herald from feigning interest in Cycling when they don't usaully care less when the Tour route was announced, a very quick revert to type.

Shame efforts locally don't go into fixing roads or educating truck drivers on the Grassington road that 6 inches isn't an exceptable distance to give a cyclist.

But hey-ho that probably wouldn't get Mr Quinn re elected.

Elderly villagers with cars? An accident waiting to happen,

Just under a month until we take on the first two stages over a weekend. Bring on the haters!

The 'Hot Fuzz' reference is spot on.

Bit of a non-story really, it sounds like the kind of exchange at any parish council / community meeting.

I'm sure someone will have said "Huh, Embsay will get nothing out of this Tour de France business." Or perhaps "The youth of today, honestly!!"

As if cars and lorries don't terrorise whole communities already... (and no, I'm not exaggerating)

Yeah, you better watch out for cyclists; we're a bunch of b@startds.

4) Lack of evidence of cyclist/mirror interaction e.g. bloodied cyclists lying on the road in pain after hitting said wing mirrors at speed.

"we’ve had incidents where car wing mirrors have gone missing"

That bit sounds highly unlikely to be cyclists?
1) less likely than a car to aim that close to a car
2) don't have the momentum to knock a mirror out of sight
3) mirrors don't fit well in jersey pockets...not that I've tried

there is something that reminds me of the film Hot Fuzz... "for the greater good".

As Rick Robson (csphotos) points out under the Herald article - it's a nothing story which heightens tension between residents, motorists and cyclists. shame about all those new visitors to the area potentially parting with cash at local businesses.