Jeremy Vine collision “caused by a cyclist going through a red light”; Colnago’s new bike is a hymn, a quest and a work of art (apparently); Would you let an eight-year-old cycle here?; Bike shop owner’s £15,000 “kick in the teeth” + more on the live blog
SUMMARY
Strade Bianche fever
Everyone’s favourite race (and when I say ‘everyone’, I mean my favourite race) is two days away… maybe it’s the time of year, the start of the Classics season, spring almost in the air… maybe it’s just that it’s a bloody great race. I’m not the only one either, Strade Bianche fever is spreading…
Oh no. My friend’s wedding and Strade Bianchi are on at the same time. Should I ask them to move it? (the wedding, not the race).
— Belinda (@reallyspoketome) March 1, 2023
Riders who have finished 9th at Strade Bianche:
Fuglsang
Van der Breggen
Pinot
Van Vleuten
Van Avermaet
Niewiadoma
Poels
Lloyd#StradeBianche— Daniel Lloyd (@daniellloyd1) March 2, 2023
Two days out means time for the inevitable debate: should Strade Bianche be a Monument? And while I’m a huge fan of the race and all for an extra ‘big one’ on the calendar… what is this blasphemy?
This is the hottest take I have ever seen in response to having Strade Bianche as a monument. 😂 https://t.co/oNZpWy3kMf
— Benji Naesen (@BenjiNaesen) March 1, 2023
A hymn, a quest that never stops, a work of art... Colnago's new bike (in their own words)...
Colnago has a new bike out…
> Colnago introduces C68 Allroad for the “light off-road” market
Designed for both tarmac and light off-road use (as opposed to full-on gravel use), the C68 Allroad is, according to Colnago, “a hymn to this constant search for beauty”…
“A quest that never stops, not even when the asphalt ends. Fall in love with this new model, the first built to go smooth on both asphalt and light off-road.
“The pursuit of beauty is what drives us to ride our bikes, to lose ourselves in the streets outside the city, to seek out new routes and new landscapes. Beauty is also the emotion we seek in every single product we make. A bicycle for us is a work of art. We take care of its proportions, details, materials, and construction processes… and the C68 is the epitome of this concept.”
Just make sure you’ve got a spare €15,335 before you begin your quest…
"Would you let an eight-year-old cycle here?": Some classic British cycling infrastructure
The A34 in Stockport looks fun…
Classic British cycle lane – would you let an 8 year old cycle here? pic.twitter.com/7RkpwBHqmu
— Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain@urbanists.social (@slowbikeiain) March 1, 2023
Elsewhere…
The A34 has some whoppers… pic.twitter.com/W0CiLRppLt
— Nathaniel Cleland (@bellezzasolocle) March 1, 2023
But perhaps it’s a sign that things are (slowly) moving in the right direction regarding active travel infrastructure here in the UK that Stockport’s council has details on its website of upgrades to this route, including a 5.6km pedestrian and cycle route along the A34 corridor.
“This includes a segregated cycle track and controlled crossings with connections to the wider Greater Manchester Cycle Bee Network and local public rights of way,” the council promises, and the drawings also show a 3m-wide cycleway between the roundabout and Etchells Road, along one particularly charming stretch of the A34 (below)…
The major roundabout at the top of the route is to be made easier for cyclists and pedestrians to negotiate too, with improved crossings and shared-use paths, leading to the stretch of cycle lane mentioned previously and this…
Fair enough, I’d let my imaginary eight-year-old cycle along that… even if they’ll probably be a teenager by the time anything like that’s built around here…
Let’s cross our fingers the completed project doesn’t end up back on the live blog for a sarcastic kicking when pictures of the botched project go viral among Twitter’s cycling community… c’mon Stockport Council, we’re all rooting for you…
Bike shop owner's £15,000 "kick in the teeth" break-in
A bike shop owner in Dorset has spoken out about the “unsettling” burglary which saw thieves make off with £15,000 worth of goods from Bridport Cycles last weekend. Robert Stobart told the Briport & Lyme Regis News the break-in is “another kick in the teeth” following a “slow winter”.
“All bike shops seem to get broken into eventually, but it was kind of the unexpected expected,” he said. “Coming off a slow winter and then for this to happen is another kick in the teeth. It is a bit unsettling, you kind of start double-checking everything and feeling insecure. Hopefully, it’s a one-off.
“They broke the padlock on an external door and the lock on the internal door. This is a quiet area, so no-one heard the alarm. Police have been really great. The forensic guy came out in a couple of hours and the police took a statement later that evening.”
The shop was broken into between 5pm on Friday 24 February and 2pm on Sunday 26 February, with parts, e-bikes and a turquoise Yeti SB150 mountain bike valued at around £6,000 taken.
“I would urge anyone who saw or heard any unusual activity in the area to please come forward,” police constable Jack White, of West Dorset police said.
“I understand a white van was seen acting suspiciously in the vicinity during the night on Saturday, February 2023 and I am keen to hear from anyone who may have captured either the van or anything of relevance on dashcam or CCTV footage. Also, I would like to speak to anyone who has seen one of the bikes matching the descriptions given for sale locally in unusual circumstances.”
Those with information are asked to contact Dorset Police at www.dorset.police.uk/contact or by calling 101, quoting occurrence number 55230030768.
Three years in jail for pedestrian convicted of manslaughter after cyclist's death
> Three years in jail for pedestrian convicted of manslaughter after cyclist’s death
Strav-uh?
Strava recorded some night time activities. pic.twitter.com/XcKkGYEd4L
— Cybergibbons 🚲🚲🚲 (@cybergibbons) March 2, 2023
Too many childish jokes to be made here…
But “with someone who didn’t record?” takes the biscuit…
"Drugs (prescription) and make-up worked wonders": Dan Walker makes hosting reappearance a week on from cycling collision
Good use of a bracket there by Mr Walker, wouldn’t want to get the wrong idea about what goes on at awards nights…
If you were away on a desert island last week…
> Dan Walker “glad to be alive” after being hit by a driver while cycling
> Why is Dan Walker’s claim that a bike helmet saved his life so controversial?
The Ribble Collective: British brand sets up multi-discipline, multi-gender team (but not a team) of privateers
Ribble has set up the Collective, its new athlete support model, months on from the end of the Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling team. “Rather than a traditional cycling team,” Ribble explained. “This new multi-discipline, multi-gender, community of riders sees each member of the Ribble Collective compete as a privateer, albeit within the foundations of a traditional team structure.
“Each rider gains the support of their fellow cyclists, and the Ribble brand, yet is given complete flexibility to craft their own season.”
“For 2023, we had the vision to look at the cycling landscape creatively and introduce this model, allowing us to work in close collaboration with each individual rider and support them to achieve their own riding goals. We are really excited about the future of the Ribble Collective and we feel we have built a strong, diverse and varied roster of riders for the 2023 season,” Neil Pinkawa, Ribble’s head of brand marketing said.
Riders can choose their own calendar and their own personal sponsorships but will be aboard the respective Ribble bikes, Ultra SL R, Endurance SL R, Gravel SL and Ultra Tri with a flash new colourway and in Collective-coloured kit.
Writing on his blog, one of the riders involved, Joe Laverick, sought to address if his new ‘team’, which includes former Ribble Weldtite pro and YouTuber Cameron Jeffers, is “just a bunch of influencers, or a group of privateers who are racing to win?” and quite amusingly said it’s not just another gravel group trying to sound cool.
“Away from kit, wheels are another area where the Collective has ‘partners’, not sponsors,” he explained. “I will be riding Mavic wheels this year, who are a partner of the Collective. However, Cam Jeffers is using Halo Wheels, Maddy Nutt is using Parcours.
“The freedom that this project gives us riders is refreshing. Ribble could quite easily have contractually obliged us to use company X, Y or Z and locked us into those deals. Yet, they wanted to do it different and give us freedom.”
Just a bunch of influencers, or a group of privateers who are racing to win?
My latest Substack goes into detail about the @RibbleCycles Collective and what it’s all about.
cc. @BritishConti @VeloUK @Monument_HQ https://t.co/voqiOvG6aS
— Joe Laverick (@JoeLavo) March 2, 2023
"We're going to need a bigger box"
8:30am. 02 March 2023 – 2 degrees. We’re going to need a bigger box… pic.twitter.com/7KycM4TatV
— Rory McCarron (@CyclingLawLDN) March 2, 2023
Denim shorts?!
Apologies for the somewhat sparse live blog this afternoon, turns out there’s big news elsewhere…
[Pauline Ballet/ AG2R Citroën]
Jeremy Vine collision "caused by a cyclist going through a red light"
Following on from yesterday’s story, we’ve got some more Vine for you on today’s live blog…
My first collision of the year, and it’s caused by a cyclist going through a red light. pic.twitter.com/H9oRrpdJpE
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) March 1, 2023
In the footage the presenter and another rider can be seen getting in a tangle after stopping suddenly when a third cyclist continued through a red light as they tried to cross. And while seeing the video instantly filled us with a sense of dread heading into the comments, for the most part they were less… what’s the word? Heated? Divided? Toxic? Whatever the word is, there was far less of that than usual…
In fairness to all involved, the lawbreaking cyclist posed no real danger; the impact was minor; and I made a new friend. If this had been three drivers coming together, there would have been a fist-fight, an insurance claim, and a jam at Marble Arch backing up to Victoria.
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) March 1, 2023
That was the most polite collision I’ve ever seen. Glad no one was hurt.
— Lisa (@cowphilosopher) March 2, 2023
And although the stats are hardly perfect, Beyond The Kerb notes the similar figures when looking at red light jumping — a Direct Line Survey suggesting 14 per cent of drivers jump a red light at least twice a month, while a Sunday Times operation put the percentage of cyclists who jump red lights at 10 per cent. Those figures are admittedly somewhat outdated now, coming from 10 years ago, but a 2018 survey by uSwitch found that a fifth of motorists versus a quarter of cyclists admitted to running a red light in the year previous.
Of course, there is also the question of risk, as while in Vine’s case a cyclist jumping a red light did cause a collision, the amount of serious injuries caused by cyclists jumping red lights is low. Here are the wider pedestrian casualty figures for 2016 to 2021, broken down by secondary vehicle type, which suggests cyclists pose considerably less risk to pedestrians than most other road users…
2 March 2023, 09:14
2 March 2023, 09:14
Help us to bring you the best cycling content
If you’ve enjoyed this article, then please consider subscribing to road.cc from as little as £1.99. Our mission is to bring you all the news that’s relevant to you as a cyclist, independent reviews, impartial buying advice and more. Your subscription will help us to do more.
63 Comments
Read more...
Read more...
Read more...
Latest Comments
The defence may well have argued that, and the magistrate may have accepted it, but that's not what the law says. It says that you have only driven without reasonable consideration for others if someone is inconvenienced. But the offence is committed if you drive without due care and attention, OR without reasonable consideration for other person. You have done the first if the driving falls below what would be expected of a careful and competent driver, regardless of whether anyone was inconvenienced. And CPS guidance specifically cites driving too close to another vehicle as an example.
Some years ago (before there was a cycle lane) I used to commute on Sidmouth St. But only because I worked on the London Road campus, from anywhere else there are better alternatives. As a cycle route it runs from between two busy roads, neither of which are exactly cycle friendly. So it's hardly surprising that no cyclists use it.
The officer's comments unfortunately reflect the reality of UK law. While the Highway Code guidance indeed refers to 1.5m, that is not anywhere in the law. And the criteria in law for proving a charge of careless driving does in fact rest on whether the rider is being "inconvenienced", as the discovered several years ago when the Met prosecuted a taxi driver who nearly hit me when cutting into my lane from the left near Marylebone. The prosecution lawyer was a barely competent newbie who fumbled over his words. The court computer was barely capable of playing the video footage, which kept freezing and crashing. The cabbie had an highly assertive defence lawyer who immediately seized on this point, and argued to the magistraite that I clearly hadn't been "inconvenienced" because I had not stopped or swerved, and had carried on my journey. Never mind that didn't have time to do either of those things, or that I was centimetres from being hit - the magistraite acquitted him on those grounds. That is unfortunately the outrageous reality of actually prosecuting a close pass incident. I know it's popular to blame the police and the CPS for not prosecuting enough close passes ... but the fact is the law is inadequate, and if the driver has a good lawyer then they can likely get off most close pass prosecutions.
Let's not forget the protruding "side" mirror...
HTML rules are clearly only partially implemented
please can we have the ability to use bold and italics for emphasis back as well?
As a Reading resident and cyclist, I can say I cannot think of a single occasion when I have seen a cyclist using the Sidmouth St cycle lane, nor can I think of any reason I'd use it myself. It doesn't connect to any other useful cycle routes. I don't rejoice that some of it is going back to motor traffic but I can see why the council is proposing to do that. Reading could really do with a cycleway to cross the town centre west to east and east to west but I'm not holding my breath on that.
Giant are one of the most trustworthy brands out there when it comes to manufacturing components given that they actually own their own production facilities. None of that matters though when it comes to road hookless, I and most other people won't touch it with a barge pole. We're surely at a stage now where it's toxic amongst consumers and it's only a matter of time before the UCI ban it for racing.
Filling the road with one person per car is using the road space more efficiently, amazing, I never realised that.
I bought a Giant Defy recently and immediately sold off the hookless wheels at a pretty big loss and won't ever do that again. I'm not buying hookless for road ever. Giant in particular has very short list of what tires they test with their rims so it's way too restrictive even if I was going to ride hookless wheels. Which I won't. Very short sighted by Giant.
63 thoughts on “Jeremy Vine collision “caused by a cyclist going through a red light”; Colnago’s new bike is a hymn, a quest and a work of art (apparently); Would you let an eight-year-old cycle here?; Bike shop owner’s £15,000 “kick in the teeth” + more on the live blog”
Cycle lanes should not be on
Cycle lanes should not be on A roads. They just encourage inexperienced cyclists to go on them. Everyone is allowed to ride on the A road, so just leave it to the more confident cyclists who aren’t afraid of being bullied by cars when taking the primary in the middle of the lane.
I wish we had more like this.
I wish we had more like this. Always look to the Netherlands! Cambridgeshire has some pretty good shared use paths (which rarely have walkers anyway) next to busy trunk roads but they’re not quite as good as the above N204 example from my limited experience. Cyclists should absolutely be able to use the same direct routes as drivers, they just need to be well separated from traffic.
These cycle paths in the
These cycle paths in the Netherlands are like small roads alongside the main road, they are great and work really well, catering to mopeds as well as farm traffic, tractors etc.
This makes the main road safer, because now that slower traffic has it’s own road, there’s less need for overtaking – so it’s banned, with roads like this having a double white line down the centre.
Coupled with a low speed limit of 60kph (37mph), the chances of a collision are vastly reduced for all road users.
That isn’t a cycle lane, it’s
That isn’t a cycle lane, it’s a painted murder strip.
I agree they shouldn’t be there, on any road ideally.
It isn’t a murder strip, stop
It isn’t a murder strip, stop it with the ridiculous over-emotional meltdown. It’s all ill-advised piece of infrastructure at worst.
As I’ve already said, councils should prioritise potholes over these silly virtue-signalling cycling projects. It’s no surprise to see this one on Chris Boardman’s (the ineffective and terminally wrong “cycling tzar”) former stomping ground.
Nope. It’s definately a
Nope. It’s definately a murder strip. It’s:
-a painted lane with no physical (bollards etc) or distance segregation
-exceedingly narrow (handlebar width or less
-on a busy and fast (50mph) road
Pretty much the definition of murderstrip there.
It is a murder strip. Its
It is a murder strip. Its design will lead to deaths. Simple.
The Accountant wrote:
it’s mere preeence provably increases the risk of death and injury for cyclists by a material amount.
your failure to give a shit about cyclists is noted. Kindly fuck off
We have good guidelines in
We have good guidelines in place in England, which need to be followed.
Scotland, -ish but less good.
Obvious troll is obvious
Obvious troll is obvious
Agree – Painted cycle lanes
Agree – Painted cycle lanes are worse than useless in 90% of cases. This is definitely part of that majority.
Update on killer pedestrian
Update on killer pedestrian Auriol Grey, whose aggression led to the death of 77-year old Celia Ward
Grey has been sentenced to 3 years in prison:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64824436
That’s a classic of cyclist
That’s a classic of cyclist and pedestrian lobbies forced to scrabble over the scraps from the motor table.
Cycles, tricycles etc as mobility aids, which are far less disruptive than mobility scooters. and their appropriate use as mobility aids on pavements, and cycle tracks as suitable routes for mobility scooters if properly designed, need to be big themes in the current “accessible transport” select committee enquiry.
Well covered in the latest road.cc podcast.
You have until 20 March to submit evidence.
https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6805/accessible-transport-legal-obligations/
Should mobility scooter
Should mobility scooter riders wear hi-viz, be insured, have registration plates and pay ‘road tax’?
I saw this on my commute home a few weeks ago. ? https://youtu.be/XLFOIx4QAKA
Quote:
Is that, “unless the public are riding a bike”?
To be accurate the KC should
To be accurate the KC should have added the word ‘anymore’ at the end of her statement and even that would be an aspiration based on the evidence.
I do wonder how often, “My
I do wonder how often, “My client does not pose a risk or danger to the public any more” is used in manslaughter cases where it’s not Pedestrian vs Cyclist….
(edit) and if it ever works.
That looks to be a longer
That looks to be a longer sentance than had she been driving a car, mounted the pavement and killed the cyclist.
I believe there are cases of
I believe there are cases of people killing pedestrians by driving on the footway which have not resulted in a custodial sentence (someone else can fish out the links?) So driving into a cyclists on the footway (or even what may be a “shared space”) is even less likely to be an issue.
chrisonatrike wrote:
Sadly there was one settled just yesterday in Scotland, killed a 60-year-old community worker and seriously injured three others from a family walking to their Boxing Day meal on the pavement. “Momentary lapse of attention”. 100 hours community service and a 12 month ban.
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/23356565.range-rover-driver-caused-death-pedestrian-avoids-jail/
“Momentary lapse of attention
“Momentary lapse of attention”. 100 hours community service and a 12 month ban.
This confirms what we and all the shyster defence lawyers already know: be a toff and work on your presentation of remorse, and you’re off! In this case she added ‘does not intend to drive again’, an undertaking she will obviously break after a while with ‘at the time I didn’t intend to drive again’.
There was one where a lorry
There was one where a lorry driver was parking on the pavement and ran over a little girl wearing pink on a scooter in front of her mother.
Got off Scott free if I recall.
Quote:
What?
As a Stockport resident
As a Stockport resident living close to the A34, I’m somewhat apprehensive about the proposed plans. Not so much about the scheme itself but the potential for the Council to screw it up, like this one which somehow won an award
https://twitter.com/stockportmbc/status/1585579605750063106?s=61&t=7kP5VHdfo3K23xyvrRmbJg
Jeremy Vine talking bollocks
Jeremy Vine talking bollocks again.
“If this had been three drivers coming together, there would have been a fist-fight, an insurance claim, and a jam at Marble Arch backing up to Victoria.”
Fist-fight?
Why does he feel the need to talk utter crap?
If he’s such a clairvoyant I’d better ask him for tomorrow’s Euromillions numbers.
Do people really fall for this claptrap?
…
…
Owd Big ‘Ead wrote:
Because he is a gobshite
I cycle round Manchester A
I cycle round Manchester A LOT, we have a load of questionablie cycle lanes, Ashton new road is a fun one. They like to give us sharp turns with no actual room to turn
Heading towards Ashton right near Snipe we have a sharp left turn that you will miss as its hidden, miss it and your in the tramlines.
Just after Droyseden shopping center is a good un
To avoid the tram lines (its a thing) you come off the road round the back of the tram station then the off part has a whooping great piller on the off ramp meaning you cant look for traffic you have to keep tabs on that.
Town center?
Feck no, unless you like having to cross busy buss lanes
Quote:
Why did they only take one or two bikes?
Why is Road.cc publishing
Why is Road.cc publishing dodgy statistics pretending that red light jumping is as common amongst motorists as cyclists?
Just stand at any junction, anywhere in the country (especially London where Vine was filming), where there is any kind of volume of cycling and motoring traffic and you’ll immediately see that red light jumping is far more prevalent and blatent amongst cyclists than any other mode of transport.
Pretending otherwise will undermine other serious issues, as people don’t believe statistics once they’ve been presented with fabricated or spurious data.
Bollocks. Are you a troll?
Bollocks. Are you a troll? Or just another blinkered driver?
Hey, don’t go pigeonholing
Hey, don’t go pigeonholing him – he can easily be both.
Quite easily!, It would, I
Quite easily!, It would, I guess be dependent on which one of his two brain cells were engaged at any particular moment .
Well, we can’t *know* if that
Well, we can’t *know* if that account is used by a blinkered driver, but …
The stats could as usual do
The stats could as usual do with some explanation (the coding of “involved in collision”). Some kind of *rate* is useful to know as well, and finally this will then lead to more questions of course and a desire for more detailed data. Plus of course “what might happen if you change things”?
Scope out any set of lights
Scope out any set of lights around the country and watch how many car drivers go through after the amber goes red. If you think this is a mainly cyclist problem, you;tre very much mistaken.
Cyclists may do more blatant “in the middle of the red” forays, but just after a light goes red is a dangerous time on British roads. My favourite (I was in my van), was the guy #6 in the queue of red light jumpers, who when I tooted him (half way through my green and still unable to move) went absolutely ballistic in his little car. Should have driven over him.
Yawn yawn, yawnie yawn yawn,
Yawn yawn, yawnie yawn yawn, yawn yawn. Yawnie mcyawn, yawn. Times infinity. Cubed
I don’t think the statistics
I don’t think the statistics are dodgy.
They’re not showing how likely a vehicle is to jump a red light but how likely a vehicle is to injure someone whilst doing so.
Bicycles caused 0.6% of fatalities and 2% of total injuries whilst cycling made up 2% of trips and 1% of miles (2018).
So bicycles appear to be less likely to kill pedestrians than other RLJing vehicles but more likely to injure them.
Given the physics involved it stands to reason that cyclists are probably disproportionately involved in collisions with pedestrians due to RLJing.
The junction below my old
The junction below my old flat would see motorists jumping the red light on any leg with impunity. One leg was particularly bad where you would see up to half a dozen at a time. Some accelerating hard to speeds of 50 mph the council in their infinite wisdom extended the double yellows “to aid visibility and increase the amount of road available to moving vehicles” All they did was facilitate two lanes of light jumping motorists. This is not the only problematic junction in the area. Many others suffer from this blasé attitude towards traffic lights.
giff77 wrote:
Junction by us (last crumb for the locals) has the motorists from Peppard Rd into Caversham jump the lights Every. Single. Time. They speed up to do it. I’ve been beeped multiple times by drivers for not jumping them when the driver behind wants to go through on red and me stopping also stops them (both on the bike and when driving).
The worst thing about this is that the lights are not phased for pedestrians despite being between a school and a park. Apparently it’s too difficult to make it safe for pedestrians (which translates as it’ll make drivers angry).
JustTryingToGetFromAtoB wrote
Matt Rodda’s picked this up as an issue so there might be some movement on it soonish….
Theres also a great oppportunity there to create a cycle link from Westfield road park to Balmore Walk & NCN5 if done right.
Secret_squirrel wrote:
Matt Rodda’s picked this up as an issue so there might be some movement on it soonish….
Theres also a great oppportunity there to create a cycle link from Westfield road park to Balmore Walk & NCN5 if done right.— JustTryingToGetFromAtoB
I signed the petition… though I heard it got stick at the budget for scoping the issue I’m not holding out much hope. It could pay for itself if they put cameras on the junction to catch the RLJs.
JustTryingToGetFromAtoB wrote
The junction below my old flat would see motorists jumping the red light on any leg with impunity. One leg was particularly bad where you would see up to half a dozen at a time. Some accelerating hard to speeds of 5mph the council in their infinite wisdom extended the double yellows “to aid visibility and increase the amount of road available to moving vehicles” All they did was facilitate two lanes of light jumping motorists. This is not the only problematic junction in the area. Many others suffer from this blasé attitude towards traffic lights.
— JustTryingToGetFromAtoB Junction by us (last crumb for the locals) has the motorists from Peppard Rd into Caversham jump the lights Every. Single. Time. They speed up to do it. I’ve been beeped multiple times by drivers for not jumping them when the driver behind wants to go through on red and me stopping also stops them (both on the bike and when driving). The worst thing about this is that the lights are not phased for pedestrians despite being between a school and a park. Apparently it’s too difficult to make it safe for pedestrians (which translates as it’ll make drivers angry).— giff77
oh that’s a terrible junction. That who,e road down to Waitrose is knackered, and the cycling provision over the bridge is shocking
yoir post the other day reminds me I need to do the Hardwick house loop again though, that downhill to the mill is lovely.
nosferatu1001 wrote:
I think that was Ktache rather than me, but I know it well!
Edit: a must for Sabbath fans
It’s actually terrifying when
It’s actually terrifying when you’re stopping and you can here the car behind start to skid. It got to a stage for me to take a quick shoulder check and pull to the left in the middle of the junction to avoid being hit. Other times I’ve dealt with the close pass as the motorist swerves pass me and I’ve stopped. And then I have to read our two DFLs pontificate about cyclists jumping lights. ???
The Accountant wrote:
It’s simple geometry. If twenty cyclists get to a red light, and five want to run it, five will run it.
If twenty motorists get to a red light, and nineteen would run it but the first one in the queue stops, zero will run it. They’re not law abiding, they’re just stuck.
andystow wrote:
Very good point, I’m sure many readers ride out early on quiet Sunday mornings and have experience of the way in which many motorists approach red lights when the opportunity to jump them is available.
It would be interesting to
It would be interesting to find out how far some of them are driving over the speed limit too.
Oi Vine! That’s double
Oi Vine! That’s double standards, considering the videos of non-events involving cars/buses he puts on Twitter. That cyclist most definitely posed a danger to the pedestrians who might have walked out in front of her, not to mention causing Mr Vine to collide with the bloke next to him.
Funny how the idiot Vine will
Funny how the idiot Vine will stop to confront errant motorists, often riding right up to their bumper in a provocative way and calling them out loudly. But when he almost collides with a red-light jumper on a bike, he actually apologises! Duh! Vine could do a lot of good in his privileged high profile position, but he just pees off drivers everywhere with his holier than thou attitude, and riding down the middle of the road unnecessarily. Yes, we all know we’ll see the same car at the next red light, but you don’t ride along telling people how to drive and blocking them. It just makes them angry and then I have to deal with that.
Not sure you were paying
Not sure you were paying attention, he didn’t apologise to the offending cyclist . . perhaps take a look at it again
Yet a growing number of
Yet a growing number of drivers seem to think it’s OK to drive along telling me how to ride (“get off the effin’ road”, “use the effin’ cyle path”, “you’re not allowed in the middle of the road,” “f*** off you***” etc etc) and blocking / threatening / trying to intimidate me. Weird.
Vo2Maxi wrote:
A one post wonder joins to criticise Vine. Which one of the resident trolls do you think it is? ?
That bloody camera Vine has
That bloody camera Vine has just makes me feel ill.
Given up watching it.
So did the red light-running
So did the red light-running cyclist in the Vine video run a red light at road intersection or is that the traffic-controlled intersection where a cycleway crosses the road?
Not a terrible pass from this
Not a terrible pass from this chap today, not sure they should be driving though:
HoarseMann wrote:
I refuse to believe that that driver is anything other than the goodest boy*, and will not a hear a word against him**.
*or girl
**or her
They were giving the road
They were giving the road ahead their full attention, not a mobile phone in sight. A lot of drivers could learn from their example.
Why not? Nothing to see here
Why not? Nothing to see here – it doesn’t say that when using the carriageway *drivers* should keep their dogs on a short lead.
The red light jumping stats
The red light jumping stats ref the JV video – pretty sure in that clip alone the ration is 3:1 cars v cyclist!
Bridport cycles. Seriously.
Bridport cycles. Seriously. You must invest in an alarm upgrade to BT Redcare. Also add in several alert mobile keyholders. And of course better locks. Get a good locksmith in to advise you.
There’s no doubt these scumbags had browsed your premises and knew the challenges. Don’t remain as low hanging fruit.
Fignon’s ghost wrote:
Will you also be advising that the owner should also have been wearing a helmet and hi-viz clothing?
Some nice victim blaming
Some nice victim blaming there. Well done.