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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Makes our magpies seem not so bad
I was going to add that I had a similar experience with a buzzard in the Ashdown Forest a decade or so ago, but WOW that bird is massive...over a metre difference in wing span.
That'll teach her to free wheel....
Evidence that motorists are training birds to attack cyclists out of vehicular reach.
He's probably an immigrant.
Probably thought her head was a tortoise.
Nature abhors a cyclist