“Death on the roads, sanctioned by the council”: Fuming cyclist rages at hire bike user riding a “machine of death with no safety equipment or road knowledge required” for failing to look before turning; Colnago on sale for £145 + more on the live blog
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“Death on the roads, sanctioned by the council”: Fuming cyclist rages at hire bike user riding a “machine of death with no safety equipment or road knowledge required” for failing to look before turning
Remember Bob Wilkie, the Edinburgh cyclist who went viral in April after posting a video of himself riding through a red light and almost hitting a pedestrian, before telling said pedestrian to “f*** off”?
Well, he’s back. And this time, he’s directing his anger at people riding hire bikes.
In a recent video, content creator Wilkie was riding on one of the Scottish capital’s cycle lanes when a young man, riding one of Edinburgh City Council’s Voi hire bikes, emerged from a junction and pulled out in front of him. And Wilkie wasn’t impressed:
“Did you not bother looking to your left, or right, before you pulled out there? Have you any real road knowledge at all?” Wilkie shouted at the hire bike user.
When the young appeared to mutter ‘sorry’ in Wilkie’s direction, he replied: “No, don’t apologise, just think about yourself and your own safety. You didn’t look to the right before you pulled out.”
At that moment, another Voi user – after clearly looking over his shoulder – then moves across the lane to turn right, provoking Wilkie’s ire in the process: “And that f***ing clown didn’t look to the left before he pulled right, you f***ing idiot!”
“Edinburgh Council supplying machines of death with no safety equipment or road knowledge required,” Wilkie wrote in his caption to the video, which has attracted almost 700,000 views on Facebook alone.
“Apologies for the language, and I appreciate the temporary disconnect of my brain from my mouth, I care about human life which can be lost ever so easily.”
Wilkie also posted another video shot from his rear-view camera showing the young cyclist indicating to turn right without looking, which he captioned “no words”.
“Edinburgh Council will be renting out shotguns next,” the camera cyclist joked in the comments.
However, as was the case following his run-in with the pedestrian, Wilkie’s response to the young hire bike user has attracted quite bit of criticism from his fellow cyclists on social media.
“You sped up when you saw him,” Craig noted, while another Instagram user said: “This boy is a teenager having a grown man swearing at him – seriously need to look at your own behaviour and language.”
“Just no need to speak to them like that. You can make your point in a reasonable way. Mad that you thought this was OK to post,” added Jamie Wallace.
And finally, Graeme said: “Chill… the roads are for everyone to share. Be patient and understanding and show some love. Please.”
“I will just have to race the same way, with an air of unpredictability”: Ben Healy promises “rinse and repeat” attacking approach to Tour de France as Irish star leads opportunities-focused EF Education EasyPost squad
He may have proved his GC credentials in the mountains last July, but don’t be expecting Ben Healy to sit in and play it safe at the Tour de France this year.
The Irish rider, who finished ninth overall at the 2025 Tour after winning a stage and holding the yellow jersey for two days with a brilliant attacking ride, is set to co-lead EF Education-EasyPost at this year’s race alongside former Giro winner Richard Carapaz.
They’ll be supported by Kasper Asgreen, Michael Valgren, Alex Baudin, Sean Quinn, Georg Steinhauser, and Manx debutant Max Walker, who’s making the first grand tour appearance of his career in Barcelona.
In a statement coinciding with the team’s squad announcement – delivered in typical flamboyant EF fashion – Healy insisted he’ll approach the Tour with the same attack, attack, attack mindset he had last year, despite battling through a relatively difficult, and winless, 2026 season so far.
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“I’m hopeful. I’ve had a spring with some bad luck, but I’m in good shape and ready to race. I’m looking forward to being back racing again and hopefully racing at the front,” the 25-year-old said.
“Last year was a standout year and it would be amazing to replicate it, but even half that success would still be a successful Tour in my eyes. There’s not too much pressure – I just want to be up front and in a fight for a stage win, maybe even two. There are a lot of hard transitional stages this year, so I think there’ll be plenty of opportunities for breaks.
“Our team is super strong and pretty well balanced. We can go into this Tour with any goal in mind and be adaptable to any situation. We have a lot of experience, a lot of young guys – it’s going to be a fun one.
“I have had a good prep. I did an altitude camp, which I was able to do the full block of, and then Dauphiné as a prep race, even though I got sick, I didn’t really miss too much and was able to get back into training fairly quickly. And yeah, some heat work in Mallorca. Hopefully that’s me ready.
“I will just have to race the same way, with an air of unpredictability. Even if they know how I’m going to race, if it’s still unpredictable then it’s still hard to predict. Even last year people kind of knew who I was and I was still able to do it. So nothing’s going to change really — just going to try and rinse and repeat.”
I’ll be sitting down with Healy ahead of the Tour’s start in Barcelona later this week, so keep an eye and ear out for that.
Do you want to buy a replica yellow Tadej Pogačar Colnago Y1RS for just £145? Wait, there is a catch…
… It’s the size of a tennis ball.
Yes, that’s right. Over on the weird, wonderful, and often bizarre world of Etsy, one miniature specialist is selling tiny 1:12 scale versions of the bikes we’re going to see a lot of over the course of the next three-and-a-half weeks.
I think they’re pretty cool, if I’m honest. The yellow Pogi special will look great next to my new Lego road bike (on the shelf in the spare room). And let’s face it, they’re the closest most of us are ever going to get to owning a Colnago Y1RS…
Got a spare £750,000, don’t mind getting your wrist bloodied, and don’t need to tell the time? Colnago has just the watch for you
Speaking of largely pointless Colnago-branded things, the iconic Italian bike brand’s partnership with luxury watch brand Richard Mille has been upped a month this week, thanks to the new RM 64–01 Tourbillon Colnago.
The limited edition watch is apparently inspired by Colnago’s technical, aesthetic, and sporting language, Richard Mille says, and aims to bring “some of the most recognisable codes of the Italian brand into the world of high watchmaking”. Whatever that means.
“The RM 64-01 Tourbillon Colnago was conceived as a tribute to the architecture of a Colnago bicycle,” the Swiss brand said in a statement.
“The skeletonised movement recalls the structure of a racing frame, with bridges and components arranged according to a visual logic that evokes tubes, geometries and drivetrain. The star-shaped sections of the bridges are inspired by the renowned Gilco tubes, one of the most recognisable design signatures in Colnago’s history; the micro-lugs pay tribute to the C Series, the iconic line of bicycles handmade in Cambiago; while the white, blue and gold colour palette echoes the language of the brand’s most exclusive creations from the recent past.”
I suppose I can kind of see it… Although my biggest concern would be actually telling the time on that weird, overly artsy face. You had one job, watch, one job.
And let’s just hope Colnago’s input has prevented the highbrow form of masochism Tadej Pogačar’s wrist endured during last year’s Paris-Roubaix:
Anyway, apparently the watch is available for the low, low price of £750,000. Only 50 have been produced, so you better be quick getting the house remortgaged…
“While we’re proud of the impact we’ve made, our journey is only just beginning”
Why don’t cyclists use the cycle lane? #560,281
No idea how this happened…
24 June 2026, Dublin: Ops … the Cycle Lane!
#Dublin #Photography #Streetphotography #CycleLane— nerosunero (@nerosunero.bsky.social) June 24, 2026 at 9:16 PM
It’ll happen to you…
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Except that there isn't a 'specific sub-strand of left-progressive thinking that underpins DEI'. 'DEI' is literally just an initialisation of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and covers any policies and practices intended to enhance those. Those can come from all kinds of viewpoints, and there may be strong disagreement on what they ought to be. It certainly isn't a a subset of affirmative action - rather the reverse.
If I ever want my knees to bend sideways I'll opt for those.
@mdavidford I appreciate there's been a sincere effort over many years by people with certain opinions to conflate being against specific policies with just flat out being a bigot(admittedly helped along by some of the people who're against those certain policies), but it is actually possible to have a completely logically consistent point of view that is both left-progressive *and* against the specific sub-strand of left-progressive thinking that underpins DEI and other affirmative action policies.
"arguing they cost Brompton approximately £2 million and led to 40 job losses" That's a funny way of saying "our business depends on exploiting and underpaying people to be commercially viable and/or to support our executive pay and bonus structures".
Bah, I'm waiting for the campagnolo replacement joints. Sure, it will be twice the price and require an entirely new set of equipment for the surgeon to install, but it will work magnificently and my legs will look better than ever.
@mdavidford - I don't understand, is one suppose to inhale or not?
Are the joints only available in Ultegra and 105? I guess this is one case where you won't get too many people complaining they were quite happy with Sorer. (Although I understand there are quite a few older people on Tiagra - or something like that anyway.)
It would be really good if you could stop giving Wilkie the oxygen of publicity he so desperately craves, he doesn't care about cycling, cyclist safety or anything else and his posts create considerably more animosity towards cyclists as they are generally him doing something stupid and then claiming it was the motorist's fault, e.g., filtering in the middle of the oncoming traffic lane and then complaining oncoming traffic didn't give him enough room. All he wants is to get clicks, comments and reactions for his posts, whether for monetisation or just for his own sad little ego I don't know, but he's definitely not someone to be encouraged, in my opinion.
9 thoughts on ““Death on the roads, sanctioned by the council”: Fuming cyclist rages at hire bike user riding a “machine of death with no safety equipment or road knowledge required” for failing to look before turning; Colnago on sale for £145 + more on the live blog”
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It would not surprise me if (given his red light running and hypocrisy with regards to highway code rules) Bob Wilkie is a future Darwin Award nominee.
It would be really good if you could stop giving Wilkie the oxygen of publicity he so desperately craves, he doesn’t care about cycling, cyclist safety or anything else and his posts create considerably more animosity towards cyclists as they are generally him doing something stupid and then claiming it was the motorist’s fault, e.g., filtering in the middle of the oncoming traffic lane and then complaining oncoming traffic didn’t give him enough room. All he wants is to get clicks, comments and reactions for his posts, whether for monetisation or just for his own sad little ego I don’t know, but he’s definitely not someone to be encouraged, in my opinion.
Are the joints only available in Ultegra and 105? I guess this is one case where you won’t get too many people complaining they were quite happy with Sorer.
(Although I understand there are quite a few older people on Tiagra – or something like that anyway.)
@mdavidford – I don’t understand, is one suppose to inhale or not?
If I ever want my knees to bend sideways I’ll opt for those.
@Bentrider
Bah, I’m waiting for the campagnolo replacement joints. Sure, it will be twice the price and require an entirely new set of equipment for the surgeon to install, but it will work magnificently and my legs will look better than ever.