“This is what happens when you park in a bike lane!” Fuming cyclist rides up ramp of delivery lorry blocking cycle lane – but gets accused of “making a big deal”; Oscar Onley out of the Tour de France; Bombs not bikes?; TT champs + more on the live blog
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“This is what happens when you park in a bike lane!” Fuming cyclist rides up ramp of delivery lorry blocking cycle lane – but gets accused of “making a big deal” and antagonising driver
We’ve all seen the memes. You know what I’m talking about, the ones showing a ‘cyclist’ riding over the top of a car inconsiderately blocking a bike lane. And admit it, we’ve all daydreamed of doing the same thing.
Well, one cyclist in the good ol’ US of A now has. That’s what I call the American Dream.
The rider, known as MPLS Bike Wrath on YouTube, was cycling on a painted bike lane in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when he spotted a delivery lorry blocking the infrastructure outside an Italian restaurant. And he just kept going.
While he didn’t make it all the way over the lorry, the cyclist did at least manage to climb three-quarters of the way up the ramp, where he was met by the vehicle’s startled, baffled driver:
MPLS Bike Wrath – how shall I put this? – is a touch on the loud side and, after making his way back down the ramp, wasn’t slow to fill the delivery driver in on what he regarded as his “legal and moral failures”.
Let’s just say the lengthy clip – the most bizarre thing you’ll see today, I guarantee you – contains quite a lot of swearing.
“This is what happens when you park in a bike lane! It’s a f***ing bike lane, man!” he told the driver.
When asked by the delivery driver where he should park instead, the cyclist responded: “Somewhere where it’s legal and safe, there’s a huge parking lot right over there. You’re not allowed to stop and park here for any length of time, or any reason, unless your vehicle is broken down. Is your vehicle broken down? There’s a parking lot right there.
“You might have to walk a little bit, that’s why you get paid. You don’t get paid to violate the f***ing law and endanger people in our community. Laws are laws! You are a professional driver acting like a child!”
Within a minute or so, the cyclist and delivery driver are joined by a manager at the restaurant in question, who asked the rider: “What happened?”
“He’s parking illegally in a bike lane!” the cyclist shouted back. “They do this all the f***ing time outside your restaurant. You should cut ties with any… it’s a liability to you. If this company violates the law and someone gets hurt, it will be your fault.
“You want it on record that it’s totally fine to block bike lanes and endanger cyclists, that you as a business owner support this behaviour?”
The staff member – rather unwisely, I’d say, given the cyclist’s ferocious debating technique – then started to claim that the cyclist, by riding up the ramp and not veering into the traffic lane, may have “gone out of your way” to “make a point, antagonise, and make a big deal” of the situation. Gulp.
And when he was asked if he’d ever “seen anything happen” in a similar scenario, the cyclist didn’t hold back.
“Many times, people have been killed or injured because they had to move out into traffic and some other f***er on his phone is back there and just rams right into you. That’s why we have bike lanes, it’s to keep our community safe,” he said.
At that point, another cyclist – with impeccable comic timing – rolls up in the cycle lane and asks: “Do I have to get in traffic to get by? Maybe this is a loading zone?”
“Nope, no parking. Professional drivers obey all laws,” our YouTuber responded, as the restaurant manager stood, silent, expression blank.
“Oh, s**t, the truck wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t unloading? Maybe this is the ramp part of…?”
“I tried it, it didn’t work too well, but it was a fun ride while it lasted.”
“The other three lanes aren’t being used, he could park there?” Now, there’s a question.
After another chat with the delivery driver and staff member, which ended with a promise to discuss the unloading situation with their respective higher-ups and explore other parking locations, the cyclist waved them goodbye… before riding down the road for 200 metres and spotting a bus driver blocking the bike lane, too.
“Come on, man…”
Bombs and bicycles...
In the cycling media, you can never rely upon just covering the ‘set-piece’ events – a Budget or a King’s Speech. Not least because slightly mad MPs could jump into any debate with a swipe at two-wheeled journeys at any time.
Just last week, abortive Labour leadership candidate Wes Streeting had some harsh words for the government’s latest Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy. All the more bizarre considering that, as a former Health Secretary, he should know the benefits of cycling more than most.
And, Streeting’s prioritisation of immediate defence spending is shared across the political aisle, based on the interventions this week of Conservative MP Andrew Murrison.
Taking part in Tuesday’s debate on Defence Spending and Readiness, South West Wiltshire MP, and Navy veteran Murrison compared the Polish government’s pledge of 4.8 percent of its GDP on Defence with the government’s £4.5 billion investment on “cycle tracks”. Those figures are misleading though, as the £4.5 billion will be spent over five years, and when equalised out over five years, amounts to 0.66 percent of GDP a year – based on OBR figures.
The Minister at the dispatch box, James Cartlidge, duly ducked the comparison but Murrison was undeterred, later returning to his theme, when he intervened during the speech of Liberal Democrat MP Al Pinkerton.
“The Liberal Democrats are famously known for their love of bicycling. Does he agree that it would be a good idea for the Government to drop their plan to spend £4.5 billion over five years on creating cycleways and rededicate that money to defence?”
But Pinkerton, himself a veteran, wasn’t buying it…
“The right hon. Gentleman makes a curious argument. The United Kingdom is a modern 21st-century European nation. I had a very pleasant cycle to and from Fulham this morning on a Lime bike using our cycleways. Frankly, I do not think it is a choice between one and the other—I am perfectly happy for the Government to spend money on both cycleways and defence. It is a very strange equivalence that the right hon. Gentleman seeks to make.”
A strange equivalence indeed…
Ethan Hayter beats the heat to win British time trial championships for fourth time
I’m not sure what was more scorching, the heat beating down upon the Welsh town of Lampeter this afternoon, or the pace Ethan Hayter set on the way to his fourth career victory at the British time trial championships.
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The Soudal Quick-Step rider completed the 38.4km course in 44.10, averaging a blistering 52.15kph (in this heat?!) and beating second-placed Connor Swift by 1.30. Young Ineos development rider Josh Charlton was third, another 10 seconds back.
Meanwhile, in the U23 women’s time trial, Erin Boothman dominated proceedings, riding the 25.6km in 33.36, which would have been enough to bag her bronze in the elite event earlier today. Awen Roberts was second, 1.51 behind, while Abigail Miller finished third, 2.36 down on the flying Boothman.
London council in active travel punctuality failure shocker
Death, taxes, and Filippo Ganna winning the Italian national time trial championships
That’s number seven in the Italian ITT for Top Ganna (he’s only lost one national champs against the clock since 2019, courtesy of Matteo Sobrero in 2021), and some good news on a frustrating day for Netcompany Ineos:
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First Brits confirmed for the Tour de France
NSN have become the latest team to announce their line-up for the Tour de France, and former green jersey winner Biniam Girmay will be supported by two Brits as part of his lead-out train.
Jake Stewart will be making his third consecutive appearance at the Grande Boucle, and was one game-of-cat-and-mouse-with-Frank-Van-den-Broek away from sprinting for a stage win himself from the breakaway.
Meanwhile, Lewis Askey completed his set of Grand Tour participations (and finishes) with the Tour de France last year. He’s since changed team from Groupama-FDJ and has had some impressive results this spring, including a third in the muddy cobbled classic Tro-Bro Leon.
Elsewhere, the team are likely to target stage wins in the mountains courtesy of veteran George Bennett and Marco Frigo.
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European fountains have their perks...
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Oscar Onley out of the Tour!
Ah, our post an hour ago was a little too prophetic…
Netcompany-Ineos have confirmed that Oscar Onley will miss the Tour de France with “a significant shoulder injury” that initially went undetected when he was first examined after crashing at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The team add though that he has already made encouraging progress with his rehabilitation.
We also have a quote from the Scot, who finished 4th in last year’s Tour:
“I’m gutted not to be able to line up for the Tour de France this year. My focus is now on recovering and getting my shoulder in a good place, but I’m really motivated to try and make something out of this season.
“I am looking forward to watching the boys racing in France in the coming weeks, especially knowing how hard everyone has worked.”
All attention for team will likely turn to supporting Thymen Arensman and Carlos Rodriguez. Could we see Egan Bernal drafted up at short notice? We won’t have long to wait and see…
Locals slam cycle lane plans due to removal of trees and loss of Airbnb spaces
“What is wrong with cycling on the road? I’ve been doing it for 50 years without issue,” one resident complained.
British TT championships: Third time lucky for Wiggins wins, Backstedt defends title
The British National championships start with the Time Trials today and already the action has begun!
I would try and tell you about the Ceredigion course but thankfully Dylan Sage has done it for us…
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As an under-23 rider, Sage was one of the first riders out this morning and finished a creditable sixth overall on the 26km course. But he was no match for Ben Wiggins, who makes it third time lucky in the u23 event after finishing second two years in a row.
Wiggins crossed the 1’19” faster than Henry Hobbs. In contrast, 35 seconds separated the rest of the top-10. Things are looking promising for the 21-year-old, who rides for the esteemed Hagens Berman Jayco development team and has already ridden with the WorldTour team this season. Suffice to say he’s pretty pleased with his result as well.
The women’s elite TT has just finished in the last few minutes, and Elynor Backstedt was in the hotseat for a long time only to be bested, first by Anna Morris, and then her sister!
Track specialist Morris is not registered with a team and so was racing as a privateer, but that was no obstacle to completing the course at an average speed of 46.4kph. But it wasn’t enough to best defending champion Zoe Backstedt who finished in a time of 32’45”, 22 seconds faster than Morris having completed the first lap of the course 21 seconds quicker. Talk about a fast start…
We’ll bring you the under 23 women and the elite men, as well as hopefully some photos, this afternoon!
Onley comeback!
Good news for Onley fans this morning, with the Scot uploading his first ride to Strava since falling down a ravine and into a tree at the Critérium du Dauphiné.
The bad news, is the caption, “Road to the Tour… of Guangxi.” Is this some delightful dry humour, or are we having to brace for a late season comeback? Maybe both, I’m not the comedy police.
The short hilly ride in Andorra seemed to be a coffee ride over the Coll d’Ordino and back. We’ll be on tenterhooks for when the interval efforts kick-in, and so will Netcompany-Ineos.
Between Onley’s crash and Kevin Vauquelin’s poor form (news has also broken of his withdrawal from the French national championships with illness), the British team might be without their two star GC signings at the biggest race of all.
How to survive cycling in the sun...
Seems like a good time to re-up this…
> Cycling survival — how to avoid sunburn and stay comfortable
Cool in one sense...
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Green wave in action
This is a nice explanatory video on the ‘green wave’ a policy proposal that Lime recently pitched in an editorial to be introduced in London. However, it didn’t quite receive the response hoped for…
If you are interested in cities or transportation and haven’t familiarized yourself with GREEN WAVES yet you really need to do yourself a favor. This is THE magic bullet.
— Miser (@misernyc.bsky.social) 24 June 2026 at 19:46
I will say though that I’m not sure the sped up video is beneficial to the cause, so many hazards, vehicles turning blind, it’s all rather nervy…
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£4,499 for a 171Wh e-bike? Oof...
I wonder what the numbers are like compared to 2 years ago when they were charging £4 for cycling alone (under the discovery branding). Somehow I doubt they would be bragging about the change in press releases.
I've tried some of their earlier shoes and they were too narrow, particularly 3 bolt shoes, but these are very very different.
@mitsky Presumably it was a company van with the logo/name and contact info on the back Police haven't worked out how to do this in Lancashire, even if they're at their usual position sat around at the police station. Transit HN21 VXB has Marcus Wright's Joinery phone number, Facebook details etc. all over it, but 11 months after the first report with photos they still haven't managed to talk him into getting MOT and VED.
@mitsky Ahhhh! So it wasn't blurred out IRL?!
@steelhead I have wide feet, and have tried QUOC shoes, and I can confirm they are on the narrow side. My preferred shoes are Lake wide fit race last.
@arowland Presumably it was a company van with the logo/name and contact info on the back.
@mitsky Um, how did they know his number?
Mostly. Isn't part of the problem also that decades of mass motoring have: a) eroded the difference between "place/ destination" and "route/corridor". So the "local (high) streets" are now *also* expected to shift volumes of through traffic. And some of them have *become* part of the "strategic road network", so... b) ...As it has made places "closer together" (less time to drive longer distances on the "bigger roads") so it has also made them farther apart for active travel. That's both by allowing centralisation (people across a wider area are served by an out-of-town shopping estate) but also by physically severing direct routes. So maybe now you *can't* follow a reasonably direct desire line - there's now the dual carriageway in the way. And perhaps the "shortest reasonable *local* route" may now be a longer one partly on "strategic infra"? There's still a lot of "but cyclists can use the quiet streets" / go round ideas about. But there's a reason why the route into town is a stroad: and perhaps getting there otherwise would more than double the distance and involve orienteering skills. London may be especially blighted by being so large and not very dense outside the centre. But I note in NL while they're keen that modes have their own networks they see value in providing connections along at least some of the "strategic road network".
"all this white shit" (what Pidcock actually said in the full quote) is somewhat different from "all sorts of white shit" (how you've quoted him in the headline) - the former is clearly referring to a specific substance that's supposed to help, whereas the latter makes it sound rather as if they've just grabbed various different things they found lying around at random and chucked them on.
33 thoughts on ““This is what happens when you park in a bike lane!” Fuming cyclist rides up ramp of delivery lorry blocking cycle lane – but gets accused of “making a big deal”; Oscar Onley out of the Tour de France; Bombs not bikes?; TT champs + more on the live blog”
A strange [false] dichotomy, surely?
A strange equivalence would be to suggest that we can fight off invasion (or possibly bomb random civilians in faraway countries) with cycle lanes.
Didn’t former Tory Chancellor Lord Lawson say that cycle lanes did more damage than the Luftwaffe to London? Surely we should spend £4.5 billion installing cycle lanes in hostile nations? More effective than bombing them.
“What’s that buzzing noise Vladimir? Is it the drones again? ”
“No, worse: Deliverossiyskoi riders on ebikes. We’ll never get through the congestion in the Donbass in time now…”
Thinking about it – could we sell this as a new self-defence strategy?
“Remember WW2? We removed the signposts and turned off the streetlights *? If we install cycle paths and LTNs the invaders will never be able to get anywhere! Also a coastal cycle path will completely foil those attempting to enter this country on small boats. ”
* may not be a good idea through leading to more deaths on the roads / accidents at night than it saved by making it harder to bomb?
Imagine anyone from the party that gave us HS2 lecturing on infrastructure investment.
Or anyone arguing for more funding for the MoD, without someone else being in charge of the delivery.
– Right then Carruthers, we need a really substantial rise in defence spending to put those pesky Ruskis in their place, at least £15 billion a year more. Suggestions?
– Well sir, the tax gap is currently £47 billion, how about we go after the evaders and avoiders, if we could just get a quarter of that back we could pay for everything we need.
– Oh Carruthers, I’m disappointed in you. Why on earth would you advocate such drop in the ocean pie in the sky schemes when there’s £900 million a year of cycle lane funding to be diverted?
One quarter of £47bn to fund at least £15bn? – you’ll never get a job at the treasury with maths like tha… actually, on second thoughts, never mind…
@mdavidford Oh what’s £3.25 billion between friends?
@Rendel Harris Well sir, the tax gap is currently £47 billion, how about we go after the evaders and avoiders, if we could just get a quarter of that back we could pay for everything we need
When Cat Smith MP wrote to DVLA about BF64 TGE over a year ago, pointing out that I first reported it along with the address in 2022, the company is at Companies House, the vehicle itself is proudly pictured on the company Facebook page etc., Lilian Greenwood wrote back stating Dodge 1 (we can’t comment on individual cases due to GDPR) and ‘we make VED easy to pay and difficult to avoid’. DVLA is absolutely determined to NOT KNOW about VED evaders, and make it really difficult to avoid them. They refuse to accept photographic evidence and the website makes it impossible to report anybody if you don’t know the address.
Sadly for us, We Do Nothing Greenwood declared herself in the House to be in charge of implementation of the January 2026 Government Road Safety Strategy, so that’s long been on that shelf with the big red Bin sign.
@wtjs Of course, there’s also DU68 CHX, although that’s only been without VED for 3 years so he’s in line for a Good Citizenship Award in Lancashire. Then there’s SO56 NKE (only 18 months), HN21 VXB ( a paltry 2 1/4 years), SR17 BFK (only 3 months), BU14 OFJ (only 2 years), HY66 ZZB (7 years) and that’s just the ones recently seen around Garstang. WU59 UMH managed 8 years without VED, despite me reporting it regularly to the police because of the multiple years without MOT. It’s been sold on to crims elsewhere and is now SORN/ No MOT.
As you say- far easier to go after the evil cycling infra.
@wtjs That is a strange one – Lilian Greenwood is a fairly prominent cycling advocate who has been commuting from Nottingham South by train and Brompton to Westminster since iirc 2010.
She even had the experience of being demolished in London by a dozy driver.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-64583464
@mattw Lilian Greenwood is a fairly prominent cycling advocate
Doesn’t matter- by their deeds shall ye know them! When one of their deeds is to fob off people with incontrovertible evidence of how idle, ineffectual and useless DVLA is, then they achieve idle, ineffectual and useless status themselves
@Rendel Harris the uncomfortable truth about the tax gap is that it’s not big business and billionaires that are the most at fault – it’s small businesses who are either too disorganised to get things right, or see “tax dodging” as fair game so long as they’re the ones who are doing it. And governments want their votes.
RE: green waves for lights. This is of course revolutionary for car-sick places like much of the UK and US.
When we’ve got our heads round this though we might spot this is still “thinking like a motorist” and “treating cyclists like they’re driving mini cars/motorbikes”.
At that point it’s time to learn about “separation at network level”, “unbundling / unravelling routes”. And cycle paths (where necessary) and junctions where traffic lights don’t always apply to cyclists. Or even smarter traffic lights with advanced detection of approaching cyclists and more (variable) phases, or things like default green for active travel / default red for motor traffic.
Perhaps we could skip ahead to some of that immediately?
Either you are the OBR are wrong. 900 million a year is nowhere near 0.66% of GDP. However if looking at only government spending (which would make more sense) then the spend is 0.066% which means the figure is an entire order of magnitude out. Please update.
That’s not how this works. If Live Bloggers had to go around correcting all the errors in their posts, they’d never have time to post any new ones.
Ah, I thought when calling someone else’s figure misleading and then having yours be found to be accidentally almost as bad, it might want to be corrected.
You don’t have to go to that Europe to enjoy fountains, my regular foot cooler/bike washer on the Thames at Vauxhall/Nine Elms…
“Remain indoors!” Is the road.cc team advocating for “climate” lockdowns? We’re in June when days break early and last longer. This means there is plenty of time to log a 2- or 3-hour spin, and for the cycling locos who like muy caliente a 4- or 5-hour ride. Just carry enough water and be back home before noon. I’m old enough to know that cycling is an outdoor sport.
I can think of some people who shouldn’t be let out. Although, in fairness, the heat isn’t a relevant factor there.
@mdavidford I remember riding the Death Valley double century one year when it reached 114F (45.5C). Someone told me it was 114, I just remember it being way too hot. On the climb up to Shoshone there were bodies on the side of the road sick with hyperthermia.
None of us should have been let out of doors that day.
Please can cycle lanes have this sort of protection?
The outcome of this will be interesting…
“A Texas woman is suing Tesla and a driver … after one of the electric vehicles crashed into her family home…”
“… after a Tesla Model 3 sped into their shared home.”
“The Tesla driver told police that he was using the car’s autonomous or “full self-driving” technology at the time of the crash.”
“Musk took to X … to refute the idea that Tesla’s self-driving technology was to blame for the crash because it happened at a high speed.”
“… the driver was going at 73mph (117 km/h) and had overridden the car’s self-driving mode “by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100%.””
“… the driver “had the accelerator pushed even after the crash”.”
“… the driver was operating his Tesla on “in a reasonably foreseeable manner” with full self-driving engaged when the car’s technology “failed to detect the end of the street”, went into “sudden unintended acceleration” and crashed into the Barbour residence.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8x2rzke05yo
The argument “where else am I supposed to park?” is often used by drivers who have parked illegally. Why are you trying to make it my problem? It’s your car. Park it on the fucking moon for all I care.
@Johnny Rags all our faves. “What’s the big deal? Just go round. Where do you expect me to park? We always park here. Nobody’s complaining. It’s only for a minute. I’ll move it if it’s blocking something.”
I’ve also had “I’m not from around here, I don’t know where else to park” when there is literally a free parking spot 20m away. It must be difficult to park anywhere if you require local knowledge to do so. If only they had the gift of eyesight.
I had a party at my place ten years back and a range rover driving friend asked me where he could park. (I share a driveway with my neighbour so he probably wanted permission to park behind my neighbour’s car. Or to have me move my bikes out of my garage so he could use it) I was genuinely surprised and said what do you mean, there’s 350 empty parking bays literally over the road at the library. WELL, over the road was a BIT OF AN EXAGGERATION. He would have to walk 30 meters from the nearest bay to my door. He was really unhappy with this outcome and drove off.
Car brain was diagnosed.
@Aluminium can
And how goes the friendship since?
Bare minimum.TBH
@Aluminium can It could improve if only the parking was sorted… 😉
I must confess I have ridden into cars that have been driven across a bike lane right in front of me (not the car’s fault). Not hard enough to damage my bike, but hard enough the leave an expensive dent in the door panel. I’m always videoing and my brakes squeal loudly but I just can’t seem to come to a complete stop in time. Sorry.
I must also confess to similar accidental *ahem* damage when I worked as a carer, pushing wheelchair users into town, and being forced to squeeze our ways past cars illegally parked over drop kerbs at crossings.
I’ll tell you this for nothing, the steel wheel brake mechanisms on a chair fare a lot better than the paint and plastic of a modern car bumper