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One photo of the a cyclist "caught" not using the cycle lane on an, other than a driver overtaking, empty Road. The problem with the cycle lane is obvious from the photo it's NOT flat and follows the contours of the driveways. It's obvious that if I want to do 20mph on what looks to be a pretty flat road I need to be on the road NOT the cycle path. Also it's not clear from a still that she's not about to turn right.

Lots of other supporting photos of cyclists, checks notes, actually using the path!

But why let the facts get in the way of another opportunity to bash cyclists

I like in Wimborne and I am certain this is not the cycle lane that called all the controversy about how wide it is. That one doesn't have a red surface like this.

Incidentally that cycle lane is currently out of use in parts for roadworks. In particular there are quite a few signs placed in it warning road users of roadworks, and in some spectacular irony, a large sign warning that there will be "cyclists in carriageway" put in the middle of the cycle lane to ensure this is the case.

The part of the road which is actually dangerous to cycle on (closest to Wimborne) has no cycle lane on it as it is too narrow.

It is unnecessary to repeat this yet again, as we all know it, but I'm about to do it anyway: The Mail is despicable ClarksonScum-Land! Would this execrable hyper-junk rag publish these for the edification of its frothing Tory readers?

https://upride.cc/incident/ye10aju_mini_redlightcross/

https://upride.cc/incident/ds6972_porsche_redlightpass/

https://upride.cc/incident/fd67nej_bmw420_redlightcross/

https://upride.cc/incident/t90jdt_audiwithcaravan_rljatspeed/

https://upride.cc/incident/f2yny_rangerover_redlightcross/

What does this say about the attitude of Tories (and Lancashire Constabulary- they ignored all these offences, and will ignore the most recent) to traffic lights?

hutchdaddy wrote:

More b***ocks from the Daily Mail

Cyclist caught ignoring Britain's widest cycle lane as she rides in lane dedicated to other traffic | Daily Mail Online

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11941587/Cyclist-caught-ignoring-Britai...

Unless that road is a motorway, it certainly isn't a "lane dedicated to other traffic" 

I rode down that road recently, and as can be seen in that photo, it's so littered with stones you're almost guaranteed a puncture. Plus as you would expect, the lane stops and starts all the way along the road.

There a couple of replies there that suggest that the authors should give up both their driving and their InterWeb licences.

It looks to me like the skateboarder pushed the board under the bike.

yourealwaysbe wrote:

It looks to me like the skateboarder pushed the board under the bike.

I didn't see it but could be. Not that it would make any difference to someone dickng about... and still dumbass to have your own equipment creating exactly the same hazard

are we now calling riding with one hand in a reasonably straight line on an empty (closed?) road "dicking about"?

Now whether the skateboarder lost balance or wheteher it was a deliberate assault is unclear, but the skateboard definitely appears suddenly under the bikes wheels.

To me it seems like a direct assault, worthy to be prosecuted in court, this is not funny for me at all.

Trump supporters have many reasons to be ridiculed and to offer us laughter, but violence is in any case unacceptable.

JustTryingToGetFromAtoB wrote:

The trump supporter video is class.

It looks to me like:
-Too busy dicking about on a bike to look for hazards
-Came a cropper due to personal choices
-Appreciate this is circumstantial but looks like rage and going after the person who had the skateboard because obviously all their fault rather than personal responsibility
-Whilst leaving their bike to be a hazard for others.

Textbook MAGA really.

Someone riding a bike crashed because someone else deliberately pushed an object into their path. Are we so blinded by partisanship that people are celebrating an assault on a cyclist?

AidanR wrote:

JustTryingToGetFromAtoB wrote:

The trump supporter video is class.

It looks to me like:
-Too busy dicking about on a bike to look for hazards
-Came a cropper due to personal choices
-Appreciate this is circumstantial but looks like rage and going after the person who had the skateboard because obviously all their fault rather than personal responsibility
-Whilst leaving their bike to be a hazard for others.

Textbook MAGA really.

Someone riding a bike crashed because someone else deliberately pushed an object into their path. Are we so blinded by partisanship that people are celebrating an assault on a cyclist?

I've missed the bit where it was pushed. Which would be a bad thing obvs.

But I can still call him a dick for dicking about, and leaving obstacles for others.

Also, and I don't know about anyone else on here, but I've come off my bike a few times. When I have contributed to that (and I have, because I have dicked about on my bike) I take it on the chin (or knee, or hip or wherever else i've injured)

Man waves whilst riding bike, gets taken out by someone shoving something under his front wheel, then gets blamed for waving. C'mon.

Yes. Welcome to the modern world where you have to see every event through a political lens. Bad things happening to people on the other side of the politial spectrum are OK because they are clearly horrible people through and through. 

Its such a bizarre point of view and does nothing but divide people further. 

But would such a prosecution be politically motivated?

Deep Skate was very funny though...

If you look, someone deliberately rolled a skateboard into their path. So this is actually an assault on a cyclist.

Just cause we might disagree with their (perceived) politics does not really justify that or make it funny.

Oh, and the way road.cc has framed this is similarly a bit off too.

Imagine exact the same incident but instead of a saman wanabe, was a mother waving her daughter while cycling and somebody threw a skateboard at her course causing to crash similarly.

For exact the same incident and same malicious intention what would the road.cc title be "Mother of three falls off bicycle, faceplants... goes viral? I don't think so...

I should imagine the same response if someone shoved a skateboard under, I don't know, say Saint Mikey of Cylings bike.

However f***ed up a persons beliefs or political leanings. Responses like these are as much why society by and large is in so much trouble. Assault is assault. 

Should have been 6 points at least and a short ban.

I think that the government should ban people for short periods much more often. Perhaps if you weren't allowed to drive for a month when you do something like this you would take it a little more seriously. If you are caught driving when banned its upped to a year.