“These a***holes are obsessed!” Camera cyclist councillor who “dodged” traffic by following police officers on 999 call hits out at Daily Mail for claiming he didn’t “wait his turn”; Roglič charity ride marred by crash; Lidl Ganna + more on the live blog
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“These a***holes are obsessed!” Camera cyclist councillor who “dodged” traffic by following police officers on 999 call hits out at Daily Mail for claiming he didn’t “wait his turn”
I can just picture the scene in the Daily Mail office.
‘Err, lads, we really haven’t got enough stories out that’ll rile everyone up and keep them shouting at each other on Facebook today.’
‘What about Harry and Meghan buying a suspiciously straight-looking banana from Waitrose?’
‘No, we already did that last week. I’ve got an idea – remember that councillor, vigilante cyclist guy, Abe Ladboyrule or whatever, go on to his YouTube, he’s bound to have done something that’ll really annoy our core demographic: elderly motorists staring at their phones while driving.’
‘Great idea, boss, I’m on it.’
Yes, that’s right. Adrian Chapmanlaw is making headlines in the Mail once again. The Liberal Democrat member of Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole council is no stranger to the sensationalist world of one of Britain’s biggest tabloids.
After all, it was the Mail which dubbed him the “new Cycling Mikey” back when his YouTube page of camera cycling and road safety videos, ‘Dorset Safer Roads’, boasted just 500 subscribers.
They’ve also called him a “a snide, aggressive, and vindictive cycling vigilante”, a “self-appointed busybody, and an “angrier, swearier version of Cycling Mikey.”
So, it’s no surprise, then, that one of Chapmanlaw’s recent videos – showing a police car with its sirens on “parting the seas” of traffic to allow for, as he termed it, “better filtering” – made its way to the Mail’s online pages (twice, actually).
“A cycling vigilante has been slammed for taking advantage of a police car on a 999 call by following directly behind it after traffic had cleared a path,” the Mail’s ‘exclusive’ report started, complete with the headline “Moment ‘hated’ cycling vigilante dodges traffic jam by following police car on a 999 call”.
“Rather than wait his turn to rejoin the traffic he filmed himself overtaking and undertaking the stationary cars ahead of him and catch up with the emergency vehicle.”
I’m not too sure Chapmanlaw was too impressed with his latest appearance in the Mail, however.
“These arseholes are obsessed!” the councillor wrote on his Facebook page.
“I would love to know how I managed that on my e-bike limit to 15mph! Guess details aren’t a thing when you just want to conjure hate eh?”
In the comments, Andrew Ballantyne noted: “There’s an interesting statement made in this article – ‘Rather than wait his turn…’ There seems to be a belief that cyclists should stay in line and wait their turn whilst queuing with the traffic. Drivers just get annoyed when the cyclist is quicker than them.”
The Mail also seemed to conveniently ignore Adrian’s explanation for his “careful” filtering technique on his YouTube page.
“It is always busy here, there’s no cycle lane and I always end up filtering through the queue. The problem is that people rarely leave space to allow that to happen. So when a police car parted the sea of course I am going to carefully take advantage of that!” he said.
“Now despite me saying what I am about to say I am sure the comments are going to fill up with drivers claiming what I do here is illegal. If I was in a car it 100 per cent would be, however I am not driving a car I am on a bicycle and filtering is 100 per cent legal. The police vehicle just made it easier for me.
“Did you spot the Honda Jazz that seemed to be completely oblivious to the police vehicle coming up behind them?”
And you know the best bit about all of this? The YouTube video in question was published at the end of September and has just 306 views as of this morning. Quick, Harry and Meghan, go do something to distract the Mail…
Ouch… Primož Roglič’s ‘Golden Lap’ charity ride marred by heavy crashes
After racing for the final time in Red Bull colours at Il Lombardia, and with his future in the peloton currently hanging in the balance, newly crowned European time trial champion Primož Roglič wasted no time returning home to Slovenia on Sunday.
The occasion? His annual ‘Golden Lap’ charity ride, which raises money for local kids through the Primož Roglič Foundation, attracting over 400 cyclists to the Štajerska region of Slovenia.
Unfortunately, this year’s event looked a bit of a crash-fest, judging by this video:
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Ouch.
Top Ganna becomes Lidl Ganna: Italian powerhouse Filippo Ganna leaves Netcompany Ineos after eight years to join Lidl-Trek
The big autumn transfer stories keep coming this week, with the news that Filippo Ganna has penned a three-year deal with Lidl-Trek, bringing an end to his almost decade-long association with Netcompany Ineos.
Ganna joined the British squad from UAE Team Emirates in 2019, going on to establish himself as one of the leading time trialists of his generation, winning eight Giro stages, two TT world titles, two Vuelta stages, Olympic gold on the track, and breaking the Hour Record in 2022.
The Italian powerhouse has also become a perennial contender in the classics in recent years, finishing second twice at Milan-Sanremo and winning Dwars door Vlaanderen earlier this spring.
It was announced this morning that Ganna will join two of his gold medal-winning team pursuit colleagues from Tokyo, Jonathan Milan and Simone Consonni, at Lidl-Trek, the 30-year-old penning a three-year deal with the squad, replenishing its Italian contingent following the departure of stalwart stage hunter Giulio Ciccone to Pinarello Q36.5 yesterday.
“I am really looking forward to next year with such a big team like Lidl-Trek. I am super proud to join and I really can’t wait for the first training camp and to start the season in the best way possible,” Ganna said in a statement outlining his ambitions in the classics for his new team, which has undergone a rather tumultuous managerial overhaul, directed by new boss Andy Schleck, in recent months.
“After eight years with my current team, opening a new chapter is super nice and I feel great motivation for the season. I have big goals I hope to achieve with Lidl-Trek, particularly in the classics – with the team we will have, nothing is out of reach.
“Of course, the Grand Tours remain an important objective, and I look forward to supporting the team whilst taking my own chances.”
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Given the Murdoch and Rothermere brainwashing latrine is only interested in siphoning off £millions from the Great British sheep, drivers should note on their Daily Fail newsfeed while driving, that consuming this shite is as life-shortening as their spreading waistline and buttocks from sitting in their income-draining PCP Wankpanzer Turbo, going nowhere fast.
@qwerty360 That's exactly what Adrian says normally happens: “It is always busy here, there’s no cycle lane and I always end up filtering through the queue.” Indeed, you can see he's already started filtering through before he hears the police car approaching and moves in behind the black van.
The UK car-addicted culture is perpetuated by council officers and councillors as well as the baying hoards of drivers who demand more public highway to be designed to their wants, while everyone outside the car can get stuffed. #motornormativity
Hmm; Whats the betting the cyclist could filter through the traffic regardless of the police car... (Also shows how badly traffic delays emergency services; I say having kept pace with an ambulance on a blue light run for several miles this morning before it turned off my route (cycle lane next to road it was on, then directly behind it in bus lane...) - Hell could have probably gotten past it (but didn't think racing to beat the ambulance to the bus lane (or deal with drivers doing stupid things getting out of its way) was sensible...) I'm not exactly a racing whippet (~10-12kg overweight + hauling pannier with clothes + work gear...))
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Yes - that does look sneaky - feels like the article could do with an update to make that clearer.
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@AidanR It's not a perfect metric for sure, just trying to find something less biased towards cars than incidents per miles travelled which is a somewhat absurd way of calculating relative dangers, in my opinion, given how much further cars travel for a given time. Using distance, if a driver averaging 60kmh and a cyclist averaging 20kmh both log 100 hours on the road and one incident in that time, cycling becomes one incident per 2000km and motoring one incident per 6000km, so motoring looks three times safer even though we have the same number of incidents in the same amount of time travelled.
@Rendel Harris "Perhaps lethality should be measured as drivers/cyclists found guilty of causing death per chosen metric, rather than simply numbers killed?" Given the filter of the court system that would a) likely only introduce another source of bias and b) mean the cycling numbers had dubious statistical meaning relative to the motoring ones since after removing e-motorbikes (unless we didn't? But even then...) that is ... one or two in the last 5+ years?
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Hmm;
Whats the betting the cyclist could filter through the traffic regardless of the police car…
(Also shows how badly traffic delays emergency services; I say having kept pace with an ambulance on a blue light run for several miles this morning before it turned off my route (cycle lane next to road it was on, then directly behind it in bus lane…) – Hell could have probably gotten past it (but didn’t think racing to beat the ambulance to the bus lane (or deal with drivers doing stupid things getting out of its way) was sensible…)
I’m not exactly a racing whippet (~10-12kg overweight + hauling pannier with clothes + work gear…))
@qwerty360 That’s exactly what Adrian says normally happens: “It is always busy here, there’s no cycle lane and I always end up filtering through the queue.”
Indeed, you can see he’s already started filtering through before he hears the police car approaching and moves in behind the black van.
Given the Murdoch and Rothermere brainwashing latrine is only interested in siphoning off £millions from the Great British sheep, drivers should note on their Daily Fail newsfeed while driving, that consuming this shite is as life-shortening as their spreading waistline and buttocks from sitting in their income-draining PCP Wankpanzer Turbo, going nowhere fast.