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Live blog: Cyclist stands ground to stop car cutting junction on wrong side of the road (claim they're doctors in rush to see patients); cyclist unable to make Fred Whitton due to bike booking blunder; B'ham's new cycle routes blocked by bins + more
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cycling mikey regents park12 June 2019, 14:30
Re Regent's Park...
Big news! The Royal Parks, which is responsible for 8 of London’s largest and most iconic green spaces (including Regent's Park) have a bold new transport strategy up for consultation.
Lodge your support today and help return the parks to the people: https://t.co/j6hnm7HXTa pic.twitter.com/obuESu0qXS
— London Cycling Campaign (@london_cycling) June 11, 2019
Incidents like the one in the clip below could actually become a thing of the past thanks to a consultation that wants to close the Parks' roads to motor traffic, as we reported at the weekend. You can show your support by filling out the form here.
12 June 2019, 15:04
Missed our NAMEDSPORT newsletter offer of free HydraFit energy drink sample?
...well we're giving you the chance to take advantage of the offer again! All you have to do is sign up here for a free sample of NAMED's Hydrafit energy drink mix, training advice and exclusive offers and deals. There's no obligation to buy, unless you really like it of course...
Here's that link again, just so you definitely don't miss it.
12 June 2019, 12:05
"I'm going to take a photo of you to show my patients why I'm late". Doctors drive up wrong side of the road and are blocked by cyclist, and an angry exchange ensues for over five minutes
It's happened before and it will happen again, but the latest attempt by a driver to head down the wrong side of the road to turn right at this junction in Regent's Park has been foiled by a very determined cyclist, who stood in the way for five minutes before the driver and unrepentant passenger eventually back up. What ensued in between is an oscar-worthy few minutes of sarcasm, name-calling and excuses.
This video shows how vulnerable road users are starting to assert themselves over lawbreakers in cars. The passenger has no concept whatsoever that you can't go the wrong way down the road. Watch — fascinating.
(via @MikeyCycling)https://t.co/uq4VhLDpPV— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) June 12, 2019
While the driver honks his horn, the passenger claims they are doctors who are late to see patients, which is why they wanted to cut the traffic queue. The passenger admits to the offence, and even takes a photo of the cyclist to "tell cancer patients why they are late."
The footage was retweeted by Jeremy Vine, who commended the cyclist going by the name Cycling Mikey on Twitter.
Bizarrely, a taxi driver towards the end of the video berates the cyclist for holding up the traffic - even though for him the blockage would have been exactly the same whether the cyclist was there or not.
Do we need more Cycling Mikeys, or would a camera snap and a quick call to the authorities been enough in this case? Do let us know your thoughts.
12 June 2019, 11:58
Breaking news: Froome taken to hospital after crash at the Dauphiné, putting his Tour de France hopes in jeopardy...
Not good news for Froome or Team Ineos. Full story here.
12 June 2019, 11:51
Man who missed the Fred Whitton thanks to Virgin Trains bike booking blunder demanding hotel and race entry refund
.@VirginTrains You offer me only a £66 refund for my ticket and a standard class ticket but not the refund for my @fred_whitton entry or my hotel? Are you kidding? If you can send me a £66 cheque, you can refund me for EVERYTHING. This is not good enough. @richardbranson
— NW6Cyclist (@Cycle_Whamp) June 12, 2019
The disgruntled cyclist received £66 compensation from Virgin Trains for his ticket - but wants the full race entry and hotel cost off them too. Virgin asked for the matter to be handled via private message, to which the man insisted it be handled publicly to show them up. How do you think this will go? We'll be following in earnest with (hopefully) a full story coming later today...
12 June 2019, 11:20
Flying mount perfection?
A race-saving moment?
How good was @marianne_vos's cyclo-cross bike change during Tuesday's stage at the Kent @Cyclopark? #OVOWT #UCIWWT pic.twitter.com/FIjhvB3v1c
— The Women's Tour (@thewomenstour) June 12, 2019
Cyclocrossers and triathletes take note... Marianne Vos shows us how to nail the flying mount, and manages to roll smoothly back into the peloton like nowt happened.
12 June 2019, 07:10
Cyclist captures numerous blockages along new Cycle Superhighway in Birmingham
68-71 Kent Street 13.41 on 9 June. pic.twitter.com/eRuQT6H9M0
— Karen Canner (@kazhardwick) June 9, 2019
The second city's first dedicated 'Cycling Superhighways' on the A38 and A34 were officially opened by Shanaze Reade and Jason Kenny last week, but some commuters are already complaining of blockages along the route from council bins, joggers and cars parked along it, according to the Birmingham Mail and several cyclists on Twitter.
Welcome to the new A38 cycle lane @WMPRHRT pic.twitter.com/EyyXRE8k62
— Ryan Stait (@ryan_stait) June 9, 2019
Speaking to the Birmingham Mail, PC Mark Hodson of West Midlands Police Road Harm Reduction Team said: “We will be patrolling the new cycle routes on police bicycles to ensure that the infrastructure is being used in a lawful manner by all road users.
"When we witness any misuse or offences then we will deal with this through our usual combination of education and enforcement.”
12 June 2019, 06:58
Of all the things...
Some bizarre scenes captured here, where a helicopter blew multiple riders off their bikes mid-race. It looks like none were hurt as they battle to re-mount against the huge winds generated by the chopper.
12 June 2019, 06:52
Bloody cyclists, never stopping at crossings or red lights...
Since I started cycling to work I'd like to think my awareness of my surroundings whilst cycling and driving has improved vastly, this morning being a prime example. Approaching a pedestrian crossing, I could see in the distance someone walking towards it.... pic.twitter.com/mBAXYwpVg6
— Duncan Milne (@DM_No5) June 11, 2019
12 June 2019, 06:48
A small consolation
Just received excellent news. Yes it is actually possible to get a conviction for close passing. This driver received €250 fine, 3 points and a conviction after pleading guilty. @SafeCyclingEire @roadcc @Cyclistie @IrishCycle @CorkCyclingCrew @sticky_bottle @CitizenW0lf pic.twitter.com/TJejqV7fIX
— Righttobikeit (@righttobikeit) June 11, 2019
This Irish cyclist managed to get a conviction from submitting evidence of a nasty close pass, with the driver getting three points and a 250 euro fine. Look out for our guide to submitting camera evidence in the coming weeks to make sure you know how to go about reporting dodgy driving like the above.
Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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- john_smith 2 hours 38 min ago
Straight into the sun is perhaps an exaggeration, but at that time it would be about ESE, and there are bits of the road which head roughly SSE, so...
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7 October was just a bit of harmless fun until the "msm" ramped it up.
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It's not censored if you just pirate it
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an example of Kesgraves "best cycling infrastructure in the country" https://maps.app.goo.gl/GsCMbzDUTPdq59qS9
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They are not going full gas at every point. They would destroy themselves. And tactics, they save themselves for when effort is really needed....
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It turns out that that is national police policy. We found out from this process that there is national 'secured by design' policy which causes...
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Been available for quite a while, full GRX mechanical 12 speed. Probably around the same time as 105 mechanical 12 speed if I were to guess.
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Less harmful citrus degreaser is easy to find at £8 or less for 5 litres. Works ok for me, even diluted up to 4:1. Both paraffin and white spirit...
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Nope, it's to keep your straps down and quieter. Plus most sunglasses are polycarbonate and aren't going to shatter like glass anyway
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And, more seriously, where's the coverage of the closure of the cycle lane which forces you to cycle on the Totton bypass.
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Had to look up how much the better half's peugeot 107 weighed, it's only 800kg, but it is a little car. Suits her fine, good fuel econemy and VED £20. Insurance less than my bikes, grr.
Have managed to fit the bike in the back when I cut the end off my finger and she picked us up from A+E, though dismantleing it with one hand was not easy.
I don't understand the huge vehicle thing, and I probably never will.
The guy holding up the wanker 'doctors' - what an absolute LEGEND
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I hope this story rumbles on.. has the internet found out the names of these two very important'ing doctors yet?
Doctors can be a different breed of human sometimes, that video demonstrates the bubbling undercurrent of their ever so common god complexes.
Put two of them together and they can literally do anything! Heal the sick, drive within impunity, work two jobs... basically superhumans.
You're thinking of consultants.
Nailed it there Peted76!
It was posted on this thread that an NIP had been issued. So at least the police know who the car owner is.
There must be some way of complaining to a professional body (BMC?) about their ‘attitude’? It’s just that you need to identify them first.
they can actually heal the sick all on their own...
This incident was on the Outer Circle of Regent’s Park , which shouldn’t be used as a through road. There’s a perfectly suitable road (Albany Street) parallel to it.
One of my jobs (I’m a multi-tasking kind of guy), is as a casual car park assistant. In the interview (yes, such jobs demand an interview) I said about members of the public sometimes having an ‘unrealistic belief in their exaggerated entitlement’.
The female passenger is one such person and people like that really piss me off.
Obvs I got the job
Well, how did you become two doctors? That’s most unusual - I mean, did you take the exams twice, or…?
Ask Colin Baker
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Oh - that's from the story with the Sontarans, the cannibals, and the ginger eyebrows, isn't it?
(you could have also gone with (2) Tennant & Smith, (3) Pertwee, Troughton, and Hartnell, or even (4.5) Davison, Pertwee, Troughton, fake Hartnell, and old video of Baker...).
(I'll get my coat
).
she’s only one doctor really. It’s her patients’ fault:
Doctor, Doctor - I keep singing "Green green grass of home" - I think I have Tom Jones syndrome
It's not unusual...
"You know what time we left? Quarter to eight."
It's a hard life.
This only 'worked' because the occupants of the car were 'nice' (for relatively small values of 'nice').
When the vehicle is a flatbed belonging to a scaffolding company, and the two blokes inside are called Chris and Gary, then the cyclist is going to be seriously assaulted, and his bicycle crushed under the wheels.
And then the police will charge the cyclist with criminal damage, if the underside of the vehicle is scratched.
When has anyone in the building trade ever been worried about arriving late to work??
Yeah, you'd think.
But why is it that when I leave the house early to get into the office, and most of the other vehicles are small white vans, large Transits and scaffolding lorries, everyone is going like a fucking bat out of hell?
They have to get to site quickly to sit drinking coffee and "reading" the third page of a certain tabloid
Brilliant. Well done cycling Mikey!
Aren't doctors supposed to uphold the Hippocratic Oath - "First, do no harm unless you're in a car in which case do what you want and sod everyone else"?
I was also under the impression that most cancer treatments take quite a while and waiting an extra 5 minutes is probably not going to make much difference to someone going through weeks/months of chemotherapy etc.
What we should have is a system whereby professionals on their way to an emergency can indicate their urgency with maybe flashing blue lights and a loud siren to alert other road users.
there are already a few systems in place.
One lets you park on double-red, a bus-stop or cycle lane if you put a handwritten scrap of paper in the windscreen saying something like 'photocopier engineer on call'.
The other lets you break any traffic law simply by turning on the hazard warning lights. Everybody can interpret these correctly, and it's actually illegal to be really pissed off about it, so be careful.
Finally, if you nearly kill a cyclist or pedestrian during the course of your driving, say by racing through the lights, or turning right across them, or not seeing them on the roundabout, you can wave at them if you're a guy, or if you're a woman you can give them a sympathetic look and a little smile, and that makes everything ok, so if you then call them a something rhyming with blunt you're actually the criminal.
".....because we are both Doctors going to private appointments with outpatients at a private practice and couldn't be arsed to leave with enough time as we know we can skip a lot of traffic by committing a motoring offence that doesn't matter to us because if stopped we will just say it is ok because we are both doc...."
The taxi driver who stops to have a go 'what about what you lot do on bikes' then pulls up and parks on double yellows 50m down the road!
Fluffy..., good point, well made.
Does she really say "why don't you do something worthwhile for a living."? What a self righteous, sanctimonious, vile cretin (if that is what she does say (my laptop speakers are awful)). I wouldn't mind betting that she has been spoilt since birth.
"We are both doctors!" You are both wankers!!!!
If only there were a cancer specialist who might know what can happen if you drive on the wrong side of the road. And why it's not a Measure you should resort to.
Go head on into traffic , easily could have injured someone( bet they have done that before)
and then try and blame the cyclist if one of there cancer patients dies because they are not there.
tell you what “ DR” take fu££ing responsibility and make sure you get to your patience’s on good time instead of thinking you have some right to break the law and possibly injure someone.
what would have happened if they had blocked a ambulance or fire truck trying to get to a real emergency ? “I’m now swearing quite a lot “
Go head on into traffic , easily could have injured someone( bet they have done that before)
and then try and blame the cyclist if one of there cancer patients dies because they are not there.
tell you what “ DR” take fu££ing responsibility and make sure you get to your patience’s on good time instead of thinking you have some right to break the law and possibly injure someone.
what would have happened if they had blocked a ambulance or fire truck trying to get to a real emergency ? “I’m now swearing quite a lot “
If only there was a London doctor (professor), who was in to debating road safety and congestion and maybe a Lord to boot. He could address issues like this.
If only there was a London doctor (professor), who was in to debating road safety and congestion and maybe a Lord to boot. He could address issues like this.
If only there was a London doctor (professor), who was in to debating road safety and congestion and maybe a Lord to boot. He could address issues like this.
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