“It’s hard to say what I feel about Wout without swearing”: Brad Wiggins drops f-bomb on live TV; Wout storms to epic solo win; ‘Cyclist tally’ decal pops up again; Geraint’s gilet challenge; Hammersmith gyratory “transformed” + more on the live blog
SUMMARY
Hammersmith gyratory “transformed” to make cycling safer and easier
Work on the Hammersmith gyratory, one of London’s most notoriously hostile and intimidating junctions for cyclists, has been completed by Transport for London as part of its aim to make cycling and walking in the city “safer and easier”.
The work, which began in late November (after first being touted in 2016) and developed in conjunction with Hammersmith and Fulham Council, includes a protected two-way cycle lane on the north side of the gyratory, cyclist-specific signals at junctions to separate cyclists and motor vehicles, a new parallel crossing at the Butterwick junction to allow westbound cyclists to join the two-way bike track, and improvement for pedestrian safety, including raised level crossings and more footway space.
Transport for London hope the improvements will “open up safe and attractive cycling” across west London to Gunnersbury, Chiswick, East Acton, North Acton and Ravenscourt Park, and will benefit at least 3,000 cyclists every day on the gyratory.
TfL also announced that work has been completed on a further section of Cycleway 4. The latest section, on Creek Road in Deptford, features a mile-long two-way protected cycle track. Once complete, the route will connect neighbourhoods in southeast London to central London via a fully protected cycle route between Tower Bridge Road and Greenwich.
London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner Will Norman said: “I’m delighted that work on the new and transformed Hammersmith gyratory has been completed. This delivers much needed protected cycle lanes and pedestrian crossings – making walking and cycling safer and easier at this busy junction.
“It’s also great news that the new section of Cycleway 4 is now open in Deptford – as we continue to roll out our cycle network across London.
“Enabling more Londoners to walk and cycle continues to be at the heart of the Mayor’s vision to build a safer, healthier, cleaner and more sustainable London for everyone. These crucial improvements across the city will help us to continue to build upon the boom in cycling we’ve recently seen, helping all cyclists keep safe on the roads.”
Let there be wind
After all the wind hype in Denmark led to nothing but a 30kph stroll over a massive bridge, could we finally witness some proper echelons on the way to Calais today?
If its like this tomorrow, looks like we are in for a very interesting final 40km. pic.twitter.com/UXWuCPtEIO
— nicholas roche (@nicholasroche) July 4, 2022
I’d expect there is a lot of recon rides going on today. Would be easy to have a lazy day in the hotel but tomorrow could be a crucial day. I would be riding the last 50-60km today to get a feel for the course and where it is open along the coast. #IfiwasthereTour @LeTour
— Dan Martin (@DanMartin86) July 4, 2022
Then again, we should never get too excited when it comes to the prospect of crosswinds – it’s the hope that kills you, after all…
Stage 4: Dunkerque – Calais, 171km. Should be a sprinters’ stage, but there are a few short, steep climbs. I can confirm from the beaches of Dunkerque that the weather is beautiful and the wind is light
— Steve Cook (@Country_Steve) July 5, 2022
Geraint’s gilet challenge
Right, now you’re all done chuckling at my gilet I thought we could have some fun with it. I wanna see how much more of #TDF2022 it can see 👀
The Arenberg, Alpe d’Huez… I’ll give it to a fan tomorrow and let’s see if we can get it all the way to Paris? 🙏 #wheresGsgilet pic.twitter.com/h9HreCZv1c
— Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) July 4, 2022
Geraint Thomas’ gilet may have made an unwanted appearance during Friday’s opening time trial stage in Copenhagen, but now the 2018 Tour de France winner is hoping that the infamous piece of kit can make it all the way to Paris…
I’d love it to go to a different fan each day on its journey and once it makes it back to me in Paris, I’ll auction it off with proceeds going to the @GTCyclingTrust
So if you’re in Dunkerque tomorrow & fancy taking it on the next leg of its journey let me know 👇 #wheresGsgilet pic.twitter.com/e5Qge6tooe
— Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) July 4, 2022
Once the gilet makes it back to the Welshman in Paris – after 18 different fans have carried it across France – Thomas then plans to auction it off in aid of his Cycling Trust, which aims to break down barriers that prevent young people from taking part in cycling through funding and support programmes.
The gilet lives on!
Phil Gil turns the big four-o
It’s a real honour to be able to celebrate my birthday in the biggest cycling race of them all. 💛
C’est un véritable honneur de pouvoir célébrer mon anniversaire dans la plus grande course cycliste du monde. 💛
Merci pour tous vos voeux d’anniversaire ! 🙏#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/a0vvWhVcOr— Philippe Gilbert (@PhilippeGilbert) July 5, 2022
4⃣0⃣years of making amazing memories and we’re honoured to be a part of it 🤗 pic.twitter.com/ljTJtkTds5
— Lotto Soudal (@Lotto_Soudal) July 5, 2022
A birthday attack on the final climb today wouldn’t go amiss, eh Phil?
Valverde out of hospital after hit-and-run incident
Movistar’s very own Dorian Gray, Alejandro Valverde, has been released from a hospital in southern Spain after spending the weekend there following a hit-and-run incident on Saturday.
The 42-year-old was training with teammates in Alcantarilla near Murcia, when a motorist reportedly close passed the group at speed. After one of the Movistar trio remonstrated with the driver, the motorist then reversed into the cyclists (severely damaging Valverde’s bike in the process), before driving off.
Spanish cycling website Ciclismo a Fondo later reported that a 69-year-old man involved in the incident – who had been informed by another driver that he had been identified by his licence plate – subsequently went to La Alberca police station, where he was arrested and made available to national police.
While the former world champion suffered no serious injuries in the collision, he was dizzy afterwards and sent to a nearby hospital for observation.
Tour de Gilet, Day One Update
Day one of #wheresGsgilet. Safely handed it over to Duncan who drove down from Glasgow yesterday 🤯 See you in Paris maybe… 🤣🤷♂️
Who wants to pick up the baton from Duncan tomorrow and take it on the cobbles? #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/UdnyJYlmFT— Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) July 5, 2022
La jour de la marmotte
Magnus attacks, sun rises.
— nyvelocity (@nyvelocity) July 5, 2022
🚩 Attacks flying from the start! And ⚪🔴 @MagnusCort is once again on the attack, following 🇫🇷 @PerezAnthony1!
🚩 Des attaques dès le départ ! Et ⚪🔴 Magnus Cort est encore à l’avant, après avoir suivi Anthony Perez !#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/DCKFciom1h
— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 5, 2022
Luckily for Magnus, Cofidis rider Anthony Perez has joined him today for the long morning shift up the road…
“It’s hard to say what I feel about Wout without swearing”: Brad Wiggins drops f-bomb on live TV
We all know that Sir Bradley Wiggins, knighted for his services to shouting at cyclists while riding on the back of a motorbike around France (oh, and a Tour de France win and a handful of Olympic baubles, before I forget), is extremely passionate about his bike racing.
He’s so passionate, in fact, that he sometimes gets carried away.
During the rollout, Brad on a Bike spotted the “resplendent” race leader Wout van Aert making his way to the back of the peloton, prompting the following sweary exchange:
We all agree though, Wout does look effin’ class.
My favourite part of the whole thing was Wiggins’ sincere belief that he had caught himself in time before dropping an f-bomb live on Eurosport-GCN.
“I nearly swore there, I’m live on TV… Sorry about that. I mean it’s hard to say what I feel about Wout without swearing, but I managed to just pull the reins back on that one.”
Whatever you say, Brad…
It’s certainly been a colourful start to GCN’s coverage of stage four of the Tour de France today.
A few minutes before Brad turned the air blue, everybody’s favourite commentator Carlton Kirby – who to the best of my knowledge has never made a noticeable gaffe on air – pointed out Bora-Hansgrohe’s Nils Politt, sitting towards the back of the pack in Dunkirk, with a geographically relevant but probably unnecessary historical reference:
“The German champion’s here. The Germans had a presence here in this part of the world, for an uncomfortable period in the 1940s. Welcomed back now of course…”
Nobody ever said broadcasting was easy.
Pavé preview and Cort's unusual record
⛰ First taste of cobbles for the #TDF2022 riders, as @MagnusCort scores one more KOM point at the côte de Cassel. ⚪🔴
⛰ Un avant-goût des pavés pour les coureurs du #TDF2022 dans la côte de Cassel où @MagnusCort passe en tête. ⚪🔴 pic.twitter.com/vtuZ3MBdwr
— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 5, 2022
Today’s cobbled climb, the Côte de Cassel, may be as smooth as silk compared to the misshapen monsters awaiting the peloton on the road to Arenberg tomorrow, but its stones did at least send Anthony Perez’s bottle flying out of its cage…
Magnus Cort had to fight a bit harder for his KOM point this time around, but in doing so – according to the La Vuelta Stats Twitter account – he became the first rider since Federico Bahamontes in 1958 to win the first seven classified climbs of a Tour de France.
And by the next hill, Cort had surpassed the Eagle of Toledo’s 64-year-old record.
Mind you, the mighty climbs Bahamontes (a six-time king of the mountains at the Tour) had to conquer at the start of the ’58 Tour were somewhat harder than the Cat 4s in Denmark…
Telita esos 7 primeros puertos que coronó 1º Bahamontes 🇪🇸 en 1958:
Col d’Aubisque
Col d’Aspin
Col de Peyresourde
Col des Ares
Col de Portet d’Aspet
Col du Vent
Col de Roque— La Vuelta Stats (@lavuelta_stats) July 3, 2022
But still, fair play Magnus!
World champion Balsamo takes second stage win of 2022 Giro
LA DOPPIETTA DI ELISA 🇮🇹
Balsamo ricorda a tutte chi è la regina delle volate al #GiroDonne e si prende anche la quarta tappa 🔥🚴♀️#EurosportCICLISMO | #GiroDonne22 | @Elisa_balsamo pic.twitter.com/qJQhoDG7gf
— Eurosport IT (@Eurosport_IT) July 5, 2022
After a hectic stage for the ages around Cesena yesterday, which completely upended the general classification, the Giro Donne settled back into a more familiar groove today on stage five into Reggio Emilia, as world champion Elisa Balsamo took her second win of the race with a perfectly timed sprint.
Balsamo dived into the crucial final corner with 150 metres to go ahead of DSM’s Charlotte Kool, and the Italian Trek-Segafredo rider had enough in the tank to narrowly hold off the frustrated Dutch sprinter, with Marianne Vos taking third.
“We started the final kilometres really well,” Balsamo said at the finish.
“We knew I had to be first into the last corner, I tried to do my best and the team did a great job so I’m really happy. It was a hard sprint, but nice.”
Pink jersey Annemiek van Vleuten emerged unscathed from the hazardous final kilometres – which saw a mass pile up just under the flame rouge – to keep hold of her commanding race lead.
‘Cyclist tally’ decal rears its head again
Remember the ‘cyclist tally’ decal that was popping up around London at the turn of the year?
Well, for those frantically scribbling notes at the back, in December a road.cc reader spotted an “offensive and inappropriate” decal on a Capita highway maintenance van.
The decal depicted a ‘cyclist tally’ similar to the markings, denoting enemy planes shot down, that pilots would display on the side of their aircraft during World War Two.
After Capita apologised for the sticker and opened disciplinary proceedings against the driver in question, in January another road.cc reader spotted a similar bumper sticker on a passing BMW (shocked, I know) in north London.
Well, over five months later, it seems that the flippant attitude to vulnerable road users (and the need to display it on your car) made it across the Atlantic, as another decal – apparently denoting the number of motorbike riders, cyclists, elderly pedestrians, wheelchair users and other drivers the motorists has killed over the years – has popped up in Hamilton, Ontario (just down the road from the Canadian London, incidentally).
My sister sent me this, parked on her street in Hamilton. Just when you think it can’t get any worse.@TheWarOnCars @tomflood1 pic.twitter.com/328rwFKEtC
— Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher (@mbonsma) July 5, 2022
The Twitter user who posted the photo wrote: “What a sign of our twisted and toxic relationship with cars that people using mobility aids are seen as targets for violence.
“If the driver of this vehicle hits someone, this sticker should be taken as evidence that it was premeditated. Can you imagine the reaction if this kind of violent threat was made with any device other than a car?”
It’s a Dodge. Because of course it is.
— David Gouldin (@dgouldin) July 5, 2022
“It’s nice to beat the traffic and it’s a good warm up”: Cameron Norrie’s SW19 commute
Respect to Cameron Norrie – the last Brit still in the running – who has been cycling to @Wimbledon He said: “It’s nice to beat the traffic and it’s a good warm up.” #ActiveTravel pic.twitter.com/jnWxIxbGox
— Active Travel England (@activetraveleng) July 5, 2022
Near Miss of the Day, TdF edition: Opi-Omi revisited
Omi-opi redux. #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/I4e4FgcTLH
— daniel mcmahon (@cyclingreporter) July 5, 2022
Remember, everyone: when you’re at a bike race, watch the bike race!
“He’s half-human, half-motor”: Wout van Aert blows away Tour de France peloton with epic solo win
¿Es un pájaro? ¿Es un avión? 🐤🛫
🔥 NO, ES WOUT VAN AERT 🔥#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/Fttgd1TKwk
— Eurosport.es (@Eurosport_ES) July 5, 2022
Now that’s how you end a run of second places.
After seeing three different riders pip him to the win on each of the Tour de France’s opening three stages, Wout van Aert made no mistake this time around – as the yellow jersey and his Jumbo-Visma team tore the race to shreds on the Côté du Cap Blanc-Nez, before the Belgian superstar soloed off into the distance to seal a stunning victory.
Wout van Aert’s last six stage results at the Tour de France: 1-1-2-2-2-1
— Edward Pickering (@EdwardPickering) July 5, 2022
The punchy 900-metre climb, stationed just under 11 kilometres from the finish of stage four in Calais, was used as a springboard for a devastating attack by Jumbo-Visma who, under the impetus of Nathan Van Hooydonck and Tiesj Benoot, swiftly decimated the peloton, with only Ineos Grenadiers leaders Adam Yates, Dani Martínez and Geraint Thomas initially able to keep with the blistering pace.
Such was the ferocity of the attack that by the time Van Aert took up the mantle from Benoot, only his teammate Jonas Vingegaard and Yates could hold the wheel.
Behind, Thomas, Martínez and even Jumbo-Visma’s designated GC man Primož Roglič were beginning to suffer, while Tadej Pogačar, Romain Bardet and Aleksandr Vlasov were even further back, having failed to anticipate the initial attack.
One more acceleration towards the top and – in what turned out to be a tactical coup for Jumbo-Visma even as their leaders were scattered to the winds under their own pressure – Van Aert was on his own.
Spectacular from Van Aert. Attack like that when wearing yellow outside the high mountains? Very very rare. Merckx at Orleans 1974 is one. Hinault in Paris 1979 (a two man attack). But it’s beyond the “average” maillot jaune
— William Fotheringham (@willfoth) July 5, 2022
Then, the yellow jersey, after briefly surveying the lay of the land, simply put his head down and turned in a ride for the ages.
Even as the peloton and most of the sprinters’ teams regrouped on the descent into Calais, the imperious 27-year-old increased his advantage to almost half a minute.
While the gap started to come down in the final two kilometres, in truth Van Aert never really looked like being caught.
Questionable sponsor-mandated celebration aside (your mileage may vary), by blowing the biggest race in the world apart, the yellow jersey – described as “half human, half motor” by Roglič after the stage – once again submitted his claim to being the best bike rider on the planet.
And I doubt many would argue against him.
Poor Jasper: Philipsen celebrates... second place
Wenn du glaubst, du hast die Etappe gewonnen. #TDF2022 #Philipsen pic.twitter.com/8leeGu4HUB
— Simon Häring (@_shaering) July 5, 2022
Spare a thought for poor Jasper Philipsen who, not quite noticing the bright yellow machine storming to victory 200 metres down the road, thought he had won his maiden Tour de France stage – and celebrated accordingly. Oops.
Luckily, the 24-year-old Alpecin-Deceuninck sprinter – who, it has to be said, put in a solid burst to the line to take second today – was able to laugh off his faux-pas, though he admits he was disappointed not to win.
“I thought I had won but then I saw Van Aert in front and I never knew he was in front, so yeah,” he said at the finish. “I felt good but at the moment I’m just a bit disappointed.
“Yeah, for four or five seconds I honestly thought I won. It will make funny images in the end.
“I didn’t want this though so it’s a bit s**t also. I just didn’t know he was in front. I also never heard on the radio, so yeah that’s a shame and why I sprinted for the win.”
Also love that from Philipsen. Normalise celebrating whenever you like. You go, Jasper!
— The TT Podcast 🚴♂️ (@ttpdcst) July 5, 2022
Laporte putting Philipsen right…😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/beT90y4tWp
— Nugget48 🆖🇳🇱🏴🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@Nugget48) July 5, 2022
Ouch. Harsh.
Clearly nobody has been paying attention – second place gets to wear the yellow jersey after a road stage this tour, that is what has happened so far so Philipsen knows what he’s doing
— Nick Huget 🇫🇷 (@iamnickjh) July 5, 2022
Even other teams and riders (including fellow premature celebrator Alberto Bettiol) decided to join with some good-natured bantz:
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEXANDER KRISTOFF!”#TDF2022
📸 @PhotoNewsBe pic.twitter.com/Xd1HCBq3iW— Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert (@IntermarcheWG) July 5, 2022
Happy to pass you the baton @JasperPhilipsen 😁 https://t.co/uH3FprlcGf
— Alberto Bettiol (@AlbertoBettiol) July 5, 2022
“Mandatory tennis helmets now!” Twitter users tell pedalling tennis star Cam Norrie to “set the example” by wearing a helmet
Well, that didn’t take long.
Within minutes of Active Travel England posting a photo of Cameron Norrie – currently battling back against David Goffin in the fourth set of his quarter final, at the time of writing – riding his bike to work at Wimbledon, the usual suspects flocked to Twitter to berate the latest British tennis hope for not wearing a helmet.
Of course, a few others were on hand with a series of snarky – and sometimes serious – retorts:
I don’t think tennis balls are all THAT dangerous.
— Matt Downham (@MattDownham) July 5, 2022
Mandatory tennis helmets now!
— UK Garage Fan (@ukgaragefan) July 5, 2022
No, he can carry on deciding for himself like an adult whether the benefits and risks make it worthwhile or not.
— Andrew Craig (@GoodClearTweets) July 5, 2022
It would look ridiculous with tennis whites.
— Bobbleoff (@tristramc) July 5, 2022
— Stolt Distributor (@StoltDistribut1) July 5, 2022
5 July 2022, 08:31
5 July 2022, 08:31
The response to this study has been a load of… you get the picture
Tabloid panic over study (apparently) saying cyclists could crush their genitals if they don't get out the saddle
The review by Wroclaw Medical University in Poland, published in the journal Sports Medicine has caused something of a frenzy in a certain section of the UK press
5 July 2022, 08:31
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@Hollis Jones as Rendel said, the key difference here is there were two strong pieces of evidence distinguishing this from "we all *know* they were aware of the cyclist", one of them a human witness. Outside that it's simply "but the prosecution cannot prove they didn't notice..." and legally that must fail. Like a "he said, she said" but where one of the sides is absent, because they're dead.
Having experienced this in Anglesey and most of it is unnecessary, it does give the driver a big lesson in 'looking extra', as travelling slower does that !
It's true, you aren't feeling yourself any favours wearing black/dark colours, BUT you've got to look, soo many dont and the campaign should be for motorist - look, simple as, it's not hard and drop the speed to, maybe if the police where actually outside rather than on Facebook looking for the naughty words/viewpoints, drivers would be caught speeding, not looking, pulling out, not braking in time, going through red lights, overtaking at a bad time, cutting up cyclists and a lot more..
@Rome73 There are still too many motor vehicles in the central Oxford Street area. There should be zero, except for delivery vehicles at proscribed... prescribed times
@Hollis Jones The crucial difference is the fact that Richardson stopped, exited the vehicle, tried to pull Mr Mullins free and when he couldn't got back in and drove on. He knowingly, actively and voluntarily engaged in the harmful behaviour that caused Mr Mullins' death, which is what made it murder. The hit and run driver hasn't deliberately hit a cyclist and although driving away is of course utterly reprehensible it's only covered by the laws regarding failing to stop at the scene of an accident, which only attracts a six month prison sentence maximum. It's high time the law was changed so that firstly the penalties for failing to stop and render assistance are far higher and secondly so that if the medical evidence is that the victim would have survived with prompt assistance then the driver can be charged with manslaughter or murder. However as it stands murder requires evidence of malice aforethought with an intention to kill or to cause GBH resulting in death. Richardson clearly displayed this by resuming driving even though he knew Mr Mullins was stuck under his car; the hit and run driver in an "accident" didn't have that intention so can't be charged with murder however atrocious their behaviour after the event.
@robgru76 "I am gobsmacked by the number of cyclists I see" So you had no problem in seeing them, what's the issue?
@jaymack I know, sorry! I do accept they deserve some credit for not trying to pass it of as a DBDD but the evidence is so clear it would have been s scandal even by British justice vs cyclists standards if they'd gone for anything below manslaughter.
@Rendel Harris yeah but it could have been spent on widening a few metres of road...
I have worked and socialised around Oxford street for decades. There has been major change in that time - as you would expect in a major metropolis. When I was young you could drive down the whole of Oxford St. When that was stopped everyone screamed the world was going to come to an end. Then it was narrowed in parts to a single lane, the pavements widened and New Oxford Street and Charing Cross road were closed to cars. Everyone screamed the world was going to come to an end. Then Tottenham Court Road was made two way!! And yes, you guessed it, the world was going to come to an end. Then cycle lanes were built all along Gower Street down to Shaftesbury Avenue and the taxi drivers went mental with rage, and the world was going to come to an end. Soho, where I worked for over 10 years, was slowly purged of through vehicles and every time a road was closed or made one way - the world was going to come to an end. But the pedestrian and cyclists increased and so did retail and bars. Thinking back to it, it’s crazy to remember how soho was once clogged with cars, all stuck in self imposed traffic, belching fumes and poison into the narrow streets - until ULEZ and road closures reduced all that. There are still too many motor vehicles in the central Oxford Street area. There should be zero, except for delivery vehicles at proscribed times.
@slc Just read that comment to Mrs H, worryingly she looked thoughtful and said, "Mmm...how nice a bike are we talking here?"
25 thoughts on ““It’s hard to say what I feel about Wout without swearing”: Brad Wiggins drops f-bomb on live TV; Wout storms to epic solo win; ‘Cyclist tally’ decal pops up again; Geraint’s gilet challenge; Hammersmith gyratory “transformed” + more on the live blog”
RE: Hammersmith Gyratory.
RE: Hammersmith Gyratory.
Sounds good! I know things take time but (by the standards up in Edinburgh) this was done in a frantic rush. Plans approved in 2016 and finished only 6 years later!
It’s a sign of the war on the motorist that changes are occurring in these sacred processional mazes of the motor vehicle religion. This is even happening in Edinburgh. Although of course (because “traffic flow”) we’re still retaining our football-pitch-sized gyratory.
A comment about “consultation” on the Hammersmith one from 2016 is still pertinent though – as it was 6 years before that, and before that…:
Fair play to G for making a
Fair play to G for making a positive out of a cock up.
Just when you think police
Just when you think police inaction couldn’t get any worse….Sussex Police come in with ‘Hold My Beer”
A cyclist on Twitter reported a driver to the police for a bad driving and verbal abuse. With clear pictures of the Driver and the vehicle registration mark….. and their response
“I have completed a Police National Computer Check on the VRM given, this check has given me the name of the registered owner. Without further information to confirm if the male suspect for your report is the registered owner or another driver we cannot progress on just this information”
If I was cynical I would say the driver is either a friend/relative of the officer in question or they are a serving police officer……. now the question is…. am i cynical
<sarcasm=on>
It’s your own fault. I mean, you clearly didn’t ask for ID and a blood sample when you had your little encounter, so what did you expect the police to do…?
<sarcasm=off>
So, er, if they supposedly
So, er, if they supposedly couldn’t do anything because they didn’t have enough information to confirm who it, what was the point of spending time looking up the registered owner in the first place?
Not just a tabard, he’s even
Not just a tabard, he’s even got a registration on his forearm… I’m going with corruption rather than “laziness” or “priorities” here. I’m sure they know exactly who this guy is, because he’s a mate.
I’m sure they know exactly
I’m sure they know exactly who this guy is…
Bent police are becoming more and more prevalent and the useless PCCs refuse to even admit to the possibility. I am about to send overwhelming evidence of my favourite Evader MV57 GXO to the PCC because they have suggested doing this on the Neighborhood app to someone else moaning on (like me) about OpSnapLancs never responding to any reports, never mind actually doing anything. I know I will receive a belated reply saying they can’t become involved in individual cases! Individual cases are the only cases anybody is interested in – if we wanted worthless platitudes about how it would be better if drivers would arrange insurance, MOT and VED if they could spare the time, we could write them ourselves
Maybe move to surrey
Maybe move to surrey (although surreyrider may not agree it is any better)
“The driver of this vehicle was caught by CROs speeding at 40mph in a 30mph in Normandy. A child was unrestrained on the passengers lap. The vehicle had no tax so was seized and driver summoned to court. The officer learnt some new 4 letter words which apparently describe us.”
Ha! No I don’t agree. They
Ha! No I don’t agree. They talk the talk on Twitter but don’t walk the walk when it comes to cycling and dangerous driving/close passes. They’re at least as useless as the rest.
However, Road CC fawning over their Twitter feed at every opportunity doesn’t help.
Infor-mate more likely. Feeds
Infor-mate more likely. Feeds them info on other bad guys things so he can then do what he wants.
I would say the driver is
I would say the driver is either a friend/relative of the officer in question or is a serving police officer…….
This is the same as in Lancashire – when they have to resort to objections to taking action that appear unbelievably stupid even for a traffic officer, they’re very likely bent. Essentially they’re asserting that it’s impossible to prove who was driving and any cast iron evidence is simply discarded
Sun in the eye defence –
Sun in the eye defence – specifically the right eye by the looks of it. Untouchable.
Given that the point of s172
Given that the point of s172 is for the reg keeper (no such thing as reg owner of course) to identify the driver that day, and at that time, I struggle as to how they can’t ID the driver.
oh right. Corruption.
Only one camera…
Only one camera…
Here’s an update frm Friday –
Here’s an update frm Friday – NFA.
Although I did have issues with the last letter of the reg. I tried a few options but either got nothing or it cam back as a ford and not a toyota.
I wonder if the NFA is down to the reg ?
The trailer was cm away from me.
If you haven’t seen before
If you haven’t seen before there’s a really good website for partial plate searches. That being said I can’t find the vehicle with those plates. https://www.partialnumberplate.co.uk/
Thanks, that’s a really handy
Thanks, that’s a really handy site.
Looks like the NFA is due to the plate not matching the vehicle.
I wonder if it had literally
I wonder if it had literally been registered that day and the systems have not updated yet. 22 plates are still currently being issued.
That section of CS4 has
That section of CS4 has actually been finished for over a year, but closed off with big plastic barriers blocking it, for whatever reason, meaning cyclists had to mix on a now narrow main road with lots of annoyed drivers trying to get past you. (original reason was works on the bridge, across the creek, were about to be carried out). Real mess that has taken until now to resolve. Great that Will Norman is claiming credit for it finally opening. Shame it’s unlikel to be fully finished for a long time (if ever), as TFL need more funding from the government to finish the gyratory bit on Lower Road.
‘I would say the driver is
‘I would say the driver is either a friend/relative of the officer in question or is a serving police officer…….’
Maybe a retired officer is another option, believe me, they look after each other for life. They can retire at 50yrs old if they have 25 yrs service other wise it will be 60 yrs old.
Carlton Kirby wrote:
A proper accidental Partridge
A proper accidental Partridge moment
Brits an their ‘humour”…
Brits an their ‘humour”…
Whatever you do…
Whatever you do…
I think it’s time we got over
I think it’s time we got over ourselves. Most of us weren’t alive during WWII, yet the last war still dominates our culture in a pernicious way.