“Revoke the driving licence of everyone who thinks this was the cyclist’s fault”: Viral collision video does the rounds (again); “Completely oblivious”: Some of the worst worn components to ever visit a bike shop + more on the live blog
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"Excitement and nerves" for Katie Archibald ahead of home Commonwealth Games
“The Scottish flags waving, and my friends and family in the crowd is really special.”
Katie Archibald can’t wait for next summer’s Commonwealth Games, saying there’s another level of pride in representing Scotland, especially when it’ll be a home event in Glasgow.
“Just pedalling as hard as I can because of how special it is to race at home. So I’m really looking forward to another crack at that,” she told BBC Sport Scotland this week.
It’ll be the second home Commonwealth Games she has competed at, Archibald winning bronze in the points race as a 20-year-old back in 2014.
“With any of these events you get this little mix of excitement and nerves,” Archibald said, now a decade on. “This is a sort of landmark on route to the biggest race day that we have in 2026, so I feel all full of butterflies.
“I got hit by a car [driver] before Birmingham and didn’t make it to the Games, having done the announcement, the pictures, everything, so there’s something in my chest that just feels a bit nervous.
“I’m definitely pushing for a medal and I think that’s an achievable goal. Training’s been going well and I’m getting better with more experience. The Commonwealth Games is such a special race and any time we can have a Saltire on our backs, the Scottish flags waving, and my friends and family in the crowd is really special.”
A case study in improving a town's cycling infrastructure? Outspoken protests vs quiet progress?
Here’s an interesting one. Almost every time cycling in Shrewsbury has made local and national news headlines recently it has been because of a controversial cycle lane near the town’s station. There has been a petition, fury on social media, and videos of emergency services stuck in traffic.
Exhibit A:
Meanwhile, something which has attracted a fair bit less attention is a story we’ve noticed in the local press this week, Shropshire Live reporting that high demand in newly installed secure cycle parking pods has seen all units fully booked and a lengthy waiting list racking up.
Four new pods have been installed due to the demand, the project lead saying it’s clear the response has “showed us just how many people in Shrewsbury want to cycle more but need somewhere secure and dependable to leave their bike”.
One new cyclist also explained to the local press how she moved to Shrewsbury for a job at a local hospital and only considered cycling when she started seeing infrastructure for cyclists. Following the success, a third round of pod installations is scheduled for January.
Bidding for Tadej Pogačar's Ventoux-raced Y1Rs hits $70,000
This closes tomorrow afternoon, if anyone’s found a briefcase full of bank notes this week…
Plan A or B? Remco Evenepoel weighs up his 2026 season and teases Milan San-Remo and Flanders debuts aren't out of the question
Remco Evenepoel and Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe have some big decisions to make this winter. With Tadej Pogačar looking as imperious as ever and a distinct lack of time trial kilometres at next year’s Tour de France, the prospect of Evenepoel returning to the Giro has been discussed. The Italian Grand Tour’s route was announced this week and included just one TT, like the Tour, although it is a 40km flat effort tailor-made for Evenepoel.
Then there are the classics, the Belgian also rumoured to be interested in racing Milan-San Remo and the Tour of Flanders for the first time. However, you can’t do all of the above, at least not at your best, so where does Evenepoel think he’ll target victory in 2026?
“At the moment, we have a plan A and a plan B on the table,” Evenepoel told Johan Museeuw in an interview published by Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws. “The first includes a classics campaign, the second the Giro.”
That suggests the Tour would be in both, Evenepoel also pointing out that, naturally, the World Championships will be the big goal for the second half of the season.
“The team will now review them [plan A and B] and provide feedback. The fact is, however, that in both cases, sacrifices will have to be made for certain races.”
British hill climb champ smashes up a savage 40% Barcelona climb
Pro cyclist fined €100 by Spanish police for riding with earphones
> Pro cyclist fined €100 by Spanish police for riding with earphones
Bahrain Victorious to race Bianchi bikes from next season
The off-season ‘pro cycling x bike brand merry-go-round’ has continued, Bianchi and Bahrain Victorious announcing they’ll be together for the foreseeable as part of a multi-year partnership.
Bianchi’s bikes were being raced by Arkéa–B&B Hotels, one of the pro teams that won’t be around next season having failed to find new sponsorship. Bahrain Victorious had been with Merida, but recently announced they’d be aprting ways, opening the door for Bianchi to step in.
Elsewhere, we’ve had Factor ditching IPT (now NSN Cycling) and Scott stepping in, and Q36.5 jumping to Pinarello from Scott. It’s silly season, after all. No word on exactly how long Bianchi’s deal with Bahrain Victorious is, just that it’s a multi-year partnership.
“We are extremely proud to become the new partner of Bahrain Victorious,” said Alberto Cavaggioni, CEO of Bianchi. “We share values such as heritage, innovation, and the drive to win. Bianchi has always been a key protagonist in this captivating sport, and we are ready to write a new chapter in our history with all the energy and passion of our team. I would like to thank Salvatore Grimaldi, President of Bianchi, for his trust and for further investing in this new project.”
Milan Eržen, Managing Director of Team Bahrain Victorious, added: “When we first sat down with Bianchi to explore the possibility of a collaboration, it was immediately clear that we shared the same spirit and goals. We saw their ambition to build on their rich heritage and legacy while looking ahead with us – working on advancements, development, and a modern vision for the future of performance cycling. We have great respect for Bianchi’s history in the sport, and we are confident that together we will innovate, create new iconic moments, and build the future upon their remarkable heritage.”
"Game-changing" Q36.5 x SRM collaboration promises "the most direct and efficient pedalling system on the market"
Why don't cyclists use the cycle lane? Live from Norwich
road.cc reader Bill got in touch with this… “It’s like a competition to get the most cars on a cycle lane, and a lorry for good measure!”
Boardman's do-it-all SLR 9.4 might be the best value £3k road bike around (so good that it's out of stock); plus Hunt wheels and Hutchinson tyres impress in our latest road.cc Recommends update
Phone driver who was unaware he killed cyclist jailed for nine years – after previously avoiding driving ban for phone use due to "risk of hardship"
"Revoke the driving licence of everyone who thinks this was the cyclist's fault": Viral collision video does the rounds (again)
It’s certainly not the first (and I’m sure it also won’t be the last) time this collision video does the rounds on social media, attracting millions of views… and sensible, clear-cut discussion about how the cause should not even be up for debate and the only thing to add is to wish the cyclist well. Ah…
Whose mistake was this.
The driver or the cyclist?https://t.co/vktFA1SEl7
— Genius Tech (@Geniustechw) November 30, 2025
The video’s actually more than six years old now but has sparked numerous waves of online and media discussion. It featured on Jeremy Vine’s show at the time and has come back around numerous times on social media since.
Yep, it’s a ‘whose mistake was this’ classic, normally the favourite of tabloid newspapers, but today a Twitter post viewed 5.5m times. However, even on the cesspit that is Twitter in 2025, the top comments are all pointing out the ridiculousness of even asking who’s to blame?
One UK-based cycling account Bikery suggested: “We could improve UK road safety 100% if we revoked the driving licence of everyone who thinks that this was the cyclists fault.”
Likewise, a TikToker who specialises in discussing RTC liability and dashcam clips replied: “If the cyclist is at fault I can fit in to 32″ jeans.”
Had a similar incident myself. Unobstructed view across the junction. pic.twitter.com/lPgopjLuXu
— Andrew Taylor (@thetaylor82) December 3, 2025
Oh, and as if right on cue, searching for the image online brought back this…
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@chrisonabike True, things went back to normal once the pandemic was over. In this case, however the problems are still ongoing, and aren't likely to be resolved in the near future. If anything, they're going to get worse. Food shortages are predicted because of the effect that the heatwave has had on crops. This is bound to push prices up. The Straits of Hormuz aren't likely to reopen anytime soon and the strategic oil reserves are running low. Russia is having to import petrol because its own refineries have been badly hit, so that's even more competition for an even more scarce resource. I think that more and more people are going to see cycling as a way of cutting household bills.
I think if "grown up" cyclists * are quibbling about ASLs we've very much missed the road safety point anyway. (Not to mention the wider "better transport choices" picture). ASLs are poor-to-useless "cycling infra", even for their design intent. If the idea is "for less confident cyclists" then a design that requires that you re-position in front of the motor traffic - waiting to accelerate - seems unhelpful. Of course they're only designed to help when traffic is stopped, and you can reach the front in time and if vehicles aren't already occupying them. As we're noting here drivers frequently ignore them - whether that be deliberate, a lack of road craft, because they were concentrating on following the vehicle in front, or because the paint has rubbed off. * Aside: shouldn't cycling also be safe and accessible for kids? Or should they only be allowed to do this when accompanied by sufficient qualified adults? Or be limited to parks and otherwise being driven around by their carers? Perhaps there is another way...?
Hi Bungle, I saw you follow-up comment. I can't imaging there's a tolerance of 4 seconds on camera enforced lights, seems an odd decision - an offence is committed if a vehicle starts crossing on a red, any tolerance is discretionary. There does seem to be some odd thinking about 'advanced stop lines' where the rules relating to them are identical to a regular stop line, as explained correctly elsewhere in the Highway Code. It does seem a regular offence. Where I live it doesn't help that some of them are very faint and disappear in rain.
@ktache Not sure he's totally ruled out of the worlds yet (though I think it would be best if he doesn't), normal recovery time is about eight weeks but surgery can halve that...depending on the nature of the break he could be just about fit to ride by the time of the elite men's race, but he'll have missed a lot of training. Hopefully his managers and team will persuade him to wait until Lombardia, if not just to knock it off for the rest of the year.
@Bungle_52 The Met told me a couple of years ago when rejecting a submission that they needed a clear three seconds of red visible before they would consider it for an RLJ prosecution. I pointed out to them that this meant that at 30 mph a driver could see a light change to red from 40 metres away and still get through without sanction, or 55 m if they accelerated to 40 as most do. They just replied "them's our rules..."
@Ben Graham I have just checked the footage from my report. The driver crosses the 1st stop line 4 seconds after the light turns red. All on camera from behind the vehicle. No further action. So I assume the margin is at least 4 seconds.
Oh, and active travel funding per head (in England at least) is laughable compared to other places. Plus it is delivered intermittently. It's more like a Blue Peter contest...
Yup, I see those opportunities being missed all the time in Edinburgh. When it gets really bad, dig it all up and put it back down again how it was. Contrast with what seems to happen in NL - when things are dug up the whole thing seems to get a "let's redo this according to the current standards" treatment. They even coordinate with the utilities, so that after a refurb the street isn't immediately dug up again because of leaking pipes / we suddenly realised the new estate being planned for round the corner will want broadband etc. Pros and cons of course - you may wait longer there for changes as smaller changes may be deferred until a major redo is due. (Though in the UK case you likely wouldn't get them at all...) It seems we "can't have nice things" in the UK in part because a) we have greater motor traffic speeds/volumes spead across "streets" / within urban areas b) the funding and organisational responsibility differs. Are we in the "Sam Vimes boots" territory (being too poor to afford better products which not only save money over time but actually work)? There is long term money pressure on LAs and it seems that due to poor construction and maintenance we have to regularly pour money into (pot-)holes in the road. And it seems there's no budget to check up on or enforce adequate standards from utilities work or even private building.
Shame about the world champs defence. Speedy recovery. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/30/tadej-pogacar-vuelta-a-espana-cycling-crash-hospital-stage-nine
I believe the accepted form for this kind of argument is "I know you are, you said you were, but what am I?".
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Yes I believe they should
Yes I believe they should have the licences revoked – if people are being locked up for a comment online in this country then having said attitude and viewpoint is highly problematic! I’ve cycled for 30+yrs and became legally qualified this yr to drive and it imo comes down to attitude on the road, well over 50% have a bad attitude and feel they have the god given right to walk over anybody who gets in their way…
leedorney wrote:
Which country? And “if…”
If the comment is an
If the comment is an incitement to violence then people have certainly, and rightly, been locked up for it.
Saying it online is no different to shouting it in the street, worse perhaps as it can reach a bigger audience.
I’m aware of that but was
I’m aware of that but was probing the difference between “just comment / opinion” and harassment / threats / libel / incitement. Which we have had as possible crimes / actionable for some time.
I’d suggest some of the “but free speech” is people simply not understanding * that stuff online is a) searchable and b) persists and c) now it’s more like you wrote and published it in former ages. So as you note potentially more consequential AND it can be easier for the police to detect and courts to convict than eg. off-colour chat down the pub.
Of course those who’ve brought social media to us are certainly aware of behaviours this form of interaction encourages! Some of which is positive of course (because humans) – which gets emphasised. But the systems certainly facilitate negative human traits. It’s an open secret that some of that is desired and designed in.
Absolutely correct. If I
Absolutely correct. If I stand in the street and verbally exhort those present to burn some fellow human beings alive, maybe one or two will comply. If I do the same thing on Twitter, I’m potentially reaching millions of people. And the likelihood of FAR more people complying. If anything, making illegal comments on social media should be more strictly punished than those made in person.
These days, you get thrown in
These days, you get thrown in jail if you say you’re English…
What? Go on, I dare you. Say
What? Go on, I dare you. Say ‘I’m English’ and get thrown in jail!
Rome73 wrote:
Sarcasm, I think?
Surely, drive over…
Surely, drive over…
A lot of motorists are not
A lot of motorists are not intelligent enough to drive a car safely.
A lot of them are intelligent
A lot of them are intelligent enough and choose not to.
Ridiculous that the question
Ridiculous that the question of blame is in dispute.
I add the following comments though :
If I was the cyclist, I would not have assumed that the large BMW was turning left and overtaken it so early. After all it was not indicating and was aligned vaguely to the left.
I would not have positioned myself so close to the edge of the white line, just in case a car cut the corner.
These are in no way criticisms of the cyclist, it just underlines how much we have to anticipate and compensate for poor driving.
I would have said the BMW’s
I would have said the BMW’s road positioning made it fairly obvious it was intending to turn left. It’s also possible that it was indicating at some point prior to the clip beginning (although BMW so unlikely).
The cyclist’s position didn’t really make a difference – it’s not like they were just clipped by a wing mirror or something. The cyclist could have been ~1m further left and they would still have been hit.
As I said, I am not
As I said, I am not criticising the cyclist and there is no question of who is at fault. I am just pointing out what I would have done, to compensate for unpredictable, poor driving.
What if the BMW, which wasn’t indicating and wasn’t particularly well positioned in my view, had changed his mind and turned right?
And I would also have been hit by the turning car even if I was positioned about 2 – 3 feet left of the line.
The problem is round my way
The problem is round my way that is considered normal driving. I see corner cutting every ride – luckily I haven’t been in that poor cyclist’s position when it happens.
Yep. Me too.
Yep. Me too.
There are a few junctions on
There are a few junctions on my temporary morning commute where I have started waiting at th3 bottom of the triangle.
Corner cutting is near universal these days, both into and out of side roads.
Even black cab drivers, with their world beating turning circles seem to…
Thanks for the story about
Thanks for the story about Shrewsbury, it’s good to see some positivity.
Slightly unrelated but
Slightly unrelated but Shrewsbury is a lovely town. Some great pubs and restaurants, a river, green spaces, beautiful architecture. I saw quite a few cyclists there, despite it being hilly.
An incident very similar to
An incident very similar to this got me into the headcam business- December 2018, I was in a similar position to the cyclist in question, waiting to leave the Sainsbury’s access road, although farther from the centre line and without a vehicle to my left. A Freelander cut the corner even more badly than the offending car in the video, and just missed smashing into my front wheel and ramming the head tube back into my pelvis. I was lucky, he only hit my right shoulder with his offside mirror. Lancashire Constabulary dismissed the incident as ‘only a momentary loss of concentration’. My opinion of LC has relentlessly dropped since then, and although I now have much more evidence nothing has happened to the malevolent b******s. I now sit waiting much further left, and they’re still cutting the corner to avoid the intolerable effort of turning that steering wheel.
Sorry for driving into you as
Sorry for driving into you as you crossed a zebra crossing. It was just a momentary loss of concentration.
Sorry for ploughing into a crowd of pedestrians waiting at a bus stop. It was just a momentary loss of concentration.
Sorry I ran over your pram killing your newborn child, It was just a momentary loss of concentration.
It still sounds an absurd defence no matter the scenario. And any police force accepting this should be dragged before a complaints hearing for gross incompetance.
And any police force
And any police force accepting this should be dragged before a complaints hearing for gross incompetence
They don’t ‘accept’ it, they create it on behalf of the offender when offences against cyclists are concerned. There aren’t any complaints hearings, because the police supervisory bodies such as the non-lamented PCCs, make sure there aren’t and usually it’s police officers supporting other police officers. Look at the interminable series of Hillsborough Inquiries to see how complaints about the police work!
Whilst we know there should
Whilst we know there should be no dispute about the driver being at fault…
If we want to clarify it for those who don’t agree, imagine the same situation but the cyclist is a driver.
The corner cutting driver does the same thing and hits the other driver’s vehicle.
Who do those non-believers think is at fault in that situation?
CycleGaz has used an overlay on some of his clips to give the perspective as if a driver had been in his position, showing that in that case no one would say the cyclist is at fault.
At one particular
At one particular intersection within a half mile of my house, I’ve been honked at several times for being in the equivalent position, waiting to go straight, by drivers turning left and right into the street I’m on. Like I’m in their way, preventing them from cutting or overshooting the corner!
The main road is a four lane posted 40 MPH, real speeds 45-50 MPH. The cross street is residential 25 MPH. Stop signs only on the residential street.
mitsky wrote:
I’ve seen a few videos where MAGAs are asked their opinion on comments made by rivals of Trump before the interviewer pretends they’ve made a mistake and asks the same question, but now stating
(correctly) that they were made by Trump or his allies, and getting the opposite response.
We need a neutral source to post videos like this, with the cyclists replaced by another motor vehicle. A positive use of AI, and you can bet the real driver (not the AI one) would get the blame then.
Even if a road user, be in
Even if a road user, be it cyclist or driver, is positioned incorrectly in the road, if they are stationary and a vehicle drives into them then the driver of that vehicle is at fault.
…even on the cesspit that
…even on the cesspit that is Twitter in 2025…
Partial and judgemental statement. Are all the bad guys on X, and all the good lads on BS?
X is run by a bad guy and
X is run by a bad guy and full of bots.
The algorithm pushes extreme right wing views and suppresses others.
Grok recently denied the Holocaust.
People find they get higher levels of engagement on bluesky despite having fewer followers.
Also they don’t get their links suppressed.
A repeat road offender who
A repeat road offender who killed a cyclist got 9 years. Let that sink in. Where is the outrage of the cycling community?
Um, focused on the many cases
Um, focused on the many cases where they get off with a slap on the wrist, perhaps?
Mate, that makes no sense. If
Mate, that makes no sense. If you’re an actual person (and not a bot) then head over to the actual article. Plenty of us have pointed out that it’s a farcical sentence.
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Or whether there’s a protest break clause?
I think that the problem now
I think that the problem now with modern cars is that the electronic gadgets inside cars that drivers use take priority over what is going on outside of the car.