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Video: Drunk bloke borrows bike on Copenhagen metro, crashes it

A different kind of bikes-on-trains story

Here’s a different kind of bikes-on-trains story – the short version being that a drunk bloke borrowed a bike on the Copenhagen metro, lost control of it and crashed through a glass panel.

The video was posted to YouTube by the bike’s owner, Olav Anker Jessen.

He said he was travelling home from a party with two friends when two “really drunk” men – one the person riding the bike in the video – struck up conversation with them.

At the next station, one of them asked him if he could ride the bike, and since the train had been stopped there for a while, Jessen agreed – although he swiftly changed his mind when the train started moving … “It’s an expensive bike, and I had a buyer for it the next day, so I was freaking scared,” he explained.

It was too late though. The man got on the bike and, as Jessen says, “The rest is history,” as the man went crashing through a glass panel.

Jesen says he “couldn’t stop laughing,” and that the train stopped a moment later, whereupon the man who crashed the bike got off, nursing an injured shoulder.

“In walks a metro-conductor, looks me in the eyes, looks at the glass all over, and walks out again,” added Jessen, whose friends also got off, leaving him standing there.

Just another night out really.

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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thehill | 4 years ago
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glad we dint use the term cyclist, not everyone who rides a bike is a cyclist

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hawkinspeter replied to thehill | 4 years ago
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thehill wrote:

glad we dint use the term cyclist, not everyone who rides a bike is a cyclist

cyclist
(saɪklɪst )

  • A cyclist is someone who rides a bicycle, or is riding a bicycle.
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brooksby replied to hawkinspeter | 4 years ago
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hawkinspeter wrote:

thehill wrote:

glad we dint use the term cyclist, not everyone who rides a bike is a cyclist

cyclist
(saɪklɪst )

  • A cyclist is someone who rides a bicycle, or is riding a bicycle.

I think that thehill is using the "No True Scotsman" fallacy...

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brooksby | 4 years ago
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I watched it.  I am so sorry 

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lesterama | 4 years ago
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Danny Macaskill has let himself go a bit recently.

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