We’ve all been there, Joe. This morning the President of the United States proved that it doesn’t matter whether you’re a racer, a commuter cyclist, a toddler learning to ride, or one of the most powerful people in the world; all of us, at some point, will fall off our bikes while coming to a stop.
Biden was out for a spin with his wife Dr Jill Biden (and their obligatory peloton of security personnel) near their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where the couple are celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary, when the President stopped to greet a crowd wishing him “Happy Father’s Day”.
Unfortunately, the 79-year-old fell victim to the dreaded toe strap, which kept a firm grip of his right foot, causing him to unceremoniously topple to the ground.
Asked how he was after regaining his feet, the President responded that he was “good” and blamed the “toe cages” for his fall. Surrounded by reporters, Biden quickly turned his attention to current developments concerning gun legislation, before hopping back on his bike to catch up with his wife.
Despite the President’s quick recovery, as Patrick Broe from the Lanterne Rouge podcast meticulously analysed in the below video, there remains some concern over whether the President will be able to sustain his GC challenge after the unfortunate fall…
Biden isn’t the first president to fall off their bike while in office. In 2005, George W Bush – a keen mountain biker – crashed while riding in the grounds of a Scottish hotel hosting the G8 summit.
Unlike Biden, Dubya was said to be travelling at “a pretty good speed” at the time of his fall and suffered a minor ankle injury, as well as scrapes on his hands and arms.
> US Secretary of State John Kerry airlifted to hospital after French Alps cycling crash
Predictably, the President’s tumble has already been used as a point scoring exercise for right-wing political commentators in the United States (as well as a certain pro-Brexit non-MP), who have obviously never experienced the fear of approaching a set of traffic lights while trying out a new pair of clipless pedals.
Right-wing attempts to disparage Biden’s bike riding are nothing new, of course. Fox News has continuously criticised the President for cycling in his home state of Delaware, and in March Eric Trump blasted Biden for “riding a beach cruiser around the place” while war rages in Ukraine.
Eric’s father Donald also alluded to Biden’s love for cycling during the 2020 election campaign by declaring: “I’ll never be riding a bicycle. I’m not getting hurt riding a bicycle.”
Maybe the Donald just didn’t fancy the look of Joe’s toe clips…
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Demented coffin-dodger falls from bike while trying to impress people.
Like massive inflation and recent price action in the energy markets, all Putin's fault.
It's charming how some think they have a right to level terms of foul abuse at others solely on account of their age.
Why not just report the story? Why the dig at the "right-wing media"? This site is so left-wing I might as well be reading The Guardian.
Probably because that is what political opponent's do - take a "swing" at each other, often by proxy. Anything to score points against the other side(s).
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On a cycling website.
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Oh, right.
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This isn't the first time you've whined about what you perceive as this site's leftwing bias. If you're a subscriber, you could always cancel your subscription, if not, other cycling sites are readily available. Why hang around one you don't like just to bitch about it?
It's not a "dig" at the rightwing media, by the way, it's simple reportage that rightwing commentators have been using it as a points-scoring exercise and it's entirely relevant to the reporting of the story.
Trying to give 1973 a bad name, are you? Not letting you get away with that.
What you percieve as "leftwing" is just fact-based reporting to normal people.
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Ah, Lefties! Always in the right, because... because ... well, simply because they are Lefties! No other points of view allowed. And by the way, we truly welcome diversity - as long as you think exactly like us, of course.
If no other points of view were allowed, you'd be banned. But you're not, so why are you whining?
Not sure how you're not letting me get away with anything, but anyway. If the left-wing media love reporting facts, why did I not see anything on their sites about Biden sniffing young girls' hair and groping them on camera? Why a distinct lack of reporting on Hunter's laptop? Why no endless loop of videos of Biden finishing a "speech" and attempting to shake hands with thin air, or of him following a high-fiving Obama around a room of dignitaries like a lost puppy?
Spot on Mark. It's taken you a while to see it, though I'm not sure why so many here in the comments seem to be strident opinion mouthpieces on all things US politics, as if it isn't enough they incessantly wet the bed about climate or Covid. Anything that doesn't ring the Luvvies' virtue signalling bells they call "right wing", the fact is channels like Fox News are the only ones actually talking about facts like Hunter Biden's Laptop, and the real reason Fox commentators have talked about Biden cycling in Delaware was to do with him skiving off and hiding, not the activity itself.
The old media has been infested with Left-wing ideologues for a long time, they've somehow staved off their demise by rehashing smarmy Tweets and inserting endless clickbait as journalism now.
What's the difference between Fox News and the North Korean government?
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One is a racist prick of a system that is incredibly biased and is trying to force you to to follow its beliefs and the other is the North Korean government.
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies:
To be fair to New Jersey Fox viewers, most Americans that I've met while visiting the US don't know what is going on outside their State let alone the rest of the world and the news I've seen is almost exclusively homegrown stories. They are shocked when I tell them I've been to all the lower 48 states and then usually ask how many times I've met the queen. They are often surprised that the UK population isn't 100% white and city dwellers on the coasts and rural middle Americans could be from different planets, not the same country.
That's just my experience but if it sounds like I'm knocking Americans I'm not (apart from the politicians, media and corporations who are just as universally bad as the UK), I'd move there tomorrow if I won the lottery.
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Take care, Roulo - very soon, Trendy will be on here to warn you that he is going to be keeping his eye on your future comments.
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Diversity most welcome, and all points of view respected - as long as they are the points of view that the Lefties have!
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Haha. I'm laughing at how triggered some people get, even just at the words "Fox News"...imagine their heads explode when they work out what "10% for the Big guy.." means.
Fox News. The site that genuinely wanted to talk to Nicky Minaj's cousins friend or his fiancee?
The one where they fought and won a court case on you can't take Tucker Carlson seriously on facts and any viewers should already be aware of that.
Fox news and facts is an good example of an oxymoron.
Are you denying the facts around Hunter Biden's laptop as well? Supporting the MSM and Twitter denials to bury the store, or just the selling of access to him by Joe Biden's son to the Ukranians, the Chinese and who else ?
Care to post a link to these facts?
Analysis of Hunter Biden's hard drive shows he and his firm took in about $11 million from 2013 to 2018 (nbcnews.com)
There's plenty of other links now the MSM has lost control of the narrative.
Other links? You don't seem to have supplied any which makes me think that it's one of those right-wing Trumpian conspiracy theories.
From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controversy
What strikes me as curious is why the alleged data was on an exterrnal hard drive rather than stored on the laptop itself. Is it due to Apple's encryption meaning that it's easier for interested parties to change the data on an external drive? (And they certainly seem to have been changing the data according to the analysis in the above quote.
Sorry, is this just me but is this comment so bizarre and ranting that it reads as sarcasm?
Ageist. Good on him for getting out there.
They did report the story - Biden falling off and US conservative media giving it an angle that appeals to their viewers.
Wait 'til he starts shaving his legs and Fox gets a hold of it.
It's not Ageist, we're talking about an 80 year old man. That is just a fact sorry. It's not racist either.
Anyway Fox already has ample footage of his dementia, shaking hands with thin air, staring babbling at his teleprompter, or lying to the US Naval Acdemy recently that he was appointed there in 1965...(hint - there are no records of that, but there are records of his 5 draft deferrments while at Delaware University).
Oh well.
Was that for bone spurs in "i can't remember which foot it was". Or Man, Woman, Person, Camera, TV"? Or inject bleach? Or windmills cause cancer?
Seems the last two presidents might be suffering from the affects of old age and maybe their should be an upper age limit as well as lower ones. Or mental health checks as well as physical ones, all performed by independent doctors and not their personal ones.
Speak for yourself. I've never fallen over because I couldn't get myself unclipped.
(Well, it's not on camera so it didn't happen, right?)
His 'GC' should have been over with the discovery of his son's laptop....
That was Russian disinformation!
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