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Video: London cyclist tells fellow rider: "If you're scared you shouldn't be on the f*cking road"
A London cyclist who decided to hang back rather than go up the inside of a tipper truck at a junction near the Surrey Quays shopping centre was told by another rider: "If you're scared you shouldn't be on the f*cking road."
Footage of the incident was posted online last Thursday bu YouTube user CBL, who had been waiting behind the lorry at the start of a gyratory at the junction of Evelyn Street, Bestwood Street and Lower Road.
Another cyclist said to him, "come on mate!" to which CBL replied: "I'm not going down the side of that, mate. You want me to die?"
Shortly afterwards, the other rider says to him as he overtakes: "If you're scared you shouldn't be on the f*cking road"
CBL replied: You think I'm scared? That's how other people have died," the other rider giving him a 'wanker' sign in response as he rode off.
"I'm a wanker because I don't want to die down the side of a truck?" CBL shouted after him.
He caught up with the other cyclist at a set of traffic lights just past Bermondsey Station on Jamaica Road, around a mile from where the original exchange took place.
"Can you do me one favour, mate?" he asked, as other cyclists watched.
"Just say to the camera, 'You're a scared wanker if you don't ride down the side of a tipper truck' - because I'll show this to the friends and family of the people who have been killed by them, yeah?"
As the lights changed, he added: "Just have a little patience in your life. It's okay if you want to do it, but if I don't, shut your f*cking mouth."
Posting the video to Youtube, CBL said: "Please excuse me, I'm not at my most articulate so early in the morning.
"I don't feel like squeezing down the side of a tipper truck which is turning left to get around road works. This guy calls me a wanker and tells me I shouldn't be on the road."
He added: "I wonder how the friends and families of people killed by these hulking trucks feel about this guy's opinion?"
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.
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- Dnnnnnn 2 sec ago
Having used them hundreds of times with only a couple of lost parcels, my experience is the opposite, and better than with Royal Mail and UPS....
- giff77 3 min 54 sec ago
It's not even being unaware of the consequences. You've the issue of Sheriffs handing out sentences at the lower threshold. If word was out there...
- Sriracha 12 min 29 sec ago
In Merseyside that's just an everyday greeting 😉
- Hirsute 14 min 45 sec ago
That is one the reasons for using twitter as you find these sorts of statments all the time !
- Dogless 1 hour 6 min ago
That's the beauty of proper critical thought though, it addresses the power imbalances in society and can be taught as a way of approaching...
- chrisonabike 1 hour 7 min ago
It certainly appears to be a vote against safety. And asthmatics...
- wycombewheeler 1 hour 18 min ago
did he try to use the vehicle a second time.? might have been more succesful.
- MattKelland 56 min 6 sec ago
I love the way the Post front page headline puts the focus on the bus driver losing his job rather than the scooter rider almost dying.
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3-watt drag reduction at 48km/h (30mph). How many people are realistically going to get that benefit on a gravel bike?
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Maybe the tosser with the beard would feel happier behond the wheel of a BMW?
Live and let live! Why is it so hard for some people to do that is beyond me.
Well done to the filming cyclist for keeping a cool head, and for being a logical and respectful cyclist. The hipster wanker c*** needs to live by his rules and leave the rest alone. When he gets peeled off the side of a truck then I guess there will be no regrets, because he was dead hard and told others off. Don't wish others ill, but this waste of sperm deserves it.
P.S. You're not unique for having a birds nest under your chin, every other fucker has one now, and it looks retarded. But perhaps it's a quick identification feature for a certain group of people to avoid, so maybe there are some benefits after all.
And yes, as someone said, these disrespectful pricks give actual cyclists a bad name.
So, you do wish ill on others. And no, no one deserves to die. Not even for displeasing you.
OK, you've changed my mind. You deserve to die. Horribly. Crushed by a bearded man covered in tattoes, while he eats ironic cereal with organic milk.
It's your assumption that I meant bearded people on bikes, I meant people who behave like pricks on bikes, especially towards riders who know how to behave in traffic.
Oh, and it's tattoos, not tattoes. You've started with the 'Ush', I'll just add 'Sh' in front of it.
Did I mention that you'd also be suffocating because his sweaty lycra'ed ass would be drooped over your slowly empurpling face? And he'd play with a fidget spinner while doing it?
knock the 'retarded' language out too, the cyclist was an idiot, but that is also highly offensive language.
Don't be such a Spazz.
Breaking news, some people are idiots, some of these people ride bikes.
And there, made flesh-and-beard, is exactly the sort of
cyclistwanker that gets all cyclists a bad name.Oh bollocks to group accountability. He's clearly a twat, but you can't blame him for other idiots getting confused about cyclists being a heterogeneous group.
Not worth getting excited about every wanker on the road, be it in a car or on a bicycle.
Life is too short.
Normal for London (as they might say in Norfolk.)
not on my commute it isn't
Hipster dickhead.
Kudos for keeping so level headed. I'd have been tempted to punch his smug, bearded coupon.
Looks like a wanker.......is a wanker.
Camera rider showed a lot of restraint there, I'd have been tempted to put a fist through that beard.
Strangely though, this brave bearded rider would have saved no time, as he and the guy with the camera still got stuck at a set of lights with the guy who did risk his life down the side of the truck. Just as motorists who think you're slowing them down will inevitably end up stuck at traffic lights as you ride past them again.
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