- News
- Reviews
- Bikes
- Accessories
- Accessories - misc
- Computer mounts
- Bags
- Bar ends
- Bike bags & cases
- Bottle cages
- Bottles
- Cameras
- Car racks
- Child seats
- Computers
- Glasses
- GPS units
- Helmets
- Lights - front
- Lights - rear
- Lights - sets
- Locks
- Mirrors
- Mudguards
- Racks
- Pumps & CO2 inflators
- Puncture kits
- Reflectives
- Smart watches
- Stands and racks
- Trailers
- Clothing
- Components
- Bar tape & grips
- Bottom brackets
- Brake & gear cables
- Brake & STI levers
- Brake pads & spares
- Brakes
- Cassettes & freewheels
- Chains
- Chainsets & chainrings
- Derailleurs - front
- Derailleurs - rear
- Forks
- Gear levers & shifters
- Groupsets
- Handlebars & extensions
- Headsets
- Hubs
- Inner tubes
- Pedals
- Quick releases & skewers
- Saddles
- Seatposts
- Stems
- Wheels
- Tyres
- Health, fitness and nutrition
- Tools and workshop
- Miscellaneous
- Tubeless valves
- Buyers Guides
- Features
- Forum
- Recommends
- Podcast
news
Dave Hill of Slade (licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 by Andrew King).jpgSlade guitarist Dave Hill breaks elbow in collision with cyclist
The Slade classic Merry Christmas Everybody has been unavoidable in shops, pubs and at parties these past few weeks - but it was a less than happy one for the band's lead guitarist Dave Hill, who fractured his elbow after colliding with a cyclist in Brighton last Friday, according to the band's website.
The incident happened as the 70-year-old took a morning walk after performing in the town on Thursday evening with the band - now without former frontman Noddy Holder - on the last date of their Christmas tour.
Forthcoming dates in January and February have been cancelled, the band's management said.
The glam rock group's agent, Abbie Carter, was quoted in The Argus as saying: "Hopefully it isn't too serious. It looks like a clean break and Dave will be back performing in a couple of months.
"He's chomping at the bit to get back performing again."
No details were given of the cyclist, but we're guessing he or she wasn't riding a red-nosed reindeer.
Hill can count himself luckier than U2's Bono, who sustained serious facial injuries and shattered his humerus in six places after falling from his bike in New York City's Central Park in 201, giving rise to fears he would never be able to play the guitar again.
> U2 frontman Bono may never play guitar again due to New York City bike smash
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
Latest Comments
- Rendel Harris 11 min 14 sec ago
I think you need to apply the adjective to both nouns, so the commentator is not referring to all boomers but only "NIMBY boomers".
- Rendel Harris 1 sec ago
What's a "legitimate cyclist" please? Someone who doesn't conform to your arbitrary norms? At the age of 56 I admit to that you have 13 years more...
- mattw 14 hours 41 sec ago
This risks turning me into a hanger and flogger....
- wtjs 18 hours 6 min ago
Well, you know the BMW drivers' saying: knock that house (hospital, social housing, care home, hospital...) down, could save 30 seconds on the trip!
- Spangly Shiny 19 hours 40 min ago
I had the pleasure of owning two of the featured builders here, in my history. When I joined the Army in 1971, I took with me my curly Hetchins:...
- Username 20 hours 46 min ago
Could Siobhán paint it red and noone would notice it?
- Spangly Shiny 1 day 11 hours ago
To paraphrase Field of Dreams, "Build it right and they will come: and use it!"
- Rendel Harris 1 day 13 hours ago
And a Happy Christmas to you, road.cc staff!
- Rendel Harris 1 day 14 hours ago
The odds of not being able to find a single pedestrian - just one, note, "any pedestrian" - in an area containing more than about ten of them who...
Add new comment
14 comments
All got a bit lively in the comments section.
Wouldn't have happened if he'd been wearing hi-viz?
well to be accurate as per normal reporting should be in collison with cycle as we never see collisons with drivers do we ?
Peds wandering about in the seafront bike lane is an everyday occurance, it's not really fit for purpose.
interesting that the article talks about the pedestrian colluding with the cyclist, anything to back this up? or is it more likely he was struck by the cyclist. I'm pretty sure the forum gets quite worked up when cyclists collide with cars. Also making puns would definitely not be acceptable if a cyclist had suffered a fractured elbow in s road traffic accident.
One would make a guess that it was on the cycle lane along the seafront. The cycle part being a magnet for pedestrians for some reason. Maybe due to the somewhat ineffective barrier between the two of a line of paint.
That said, the stolen rustbucket on the pavement commandered by chavs syndrome is pretty rife in Brighton so maybe not.
But the first line of the linked Argos news item reads
So the article here is surely just inverting that bias? Fair turnaround, no?
Since when did papers ever report car-bike collisions as "cyclist suffers injury after being driven into by a driver"?
I was thinking the same thing. Quite flipppant and light-hearted comments about the injuries that have been suffered, but if it were one of us that had suffered those injuries at the hands of a car driver, I am sure that the comments would be quite different.
Slade Alive anyone?
Fact check. The band is only Dave & Don these days. If Noddy was still there the tour would have made big headlines.
Ah cheers, news of Noddy's departure didn't make it as far as road.cc Towers, article amended.
The cyclist must have confused him with another Dave Hill.
"Hill can count himself luckier than U2's Bono, who sustained serious facial injuries and shattered his humerus in six places after falling from his bike in New York City's Central Park in 201, giving rise to fears he would
neverbe able to play the guitar again."Fixed that for you.
Why has no one made some sor of landing on his head as he's been sleighed joke?