Tacks strewn in road for cyclists in idyllic Shropshire village

This village should be put on every sportive route in the area, then they'll wish they had never been such a bunch of arrogant morons. My route on Sunday will now include badger!

I would rather have 'speeding' cyclists going through my village any day than speeding drivers.

In fact, its an excellent initiative.  I've often thought a speed dependent 'Stinger' device would be a great way of speeding cars in our village.

it's a deliberate attempt to cause serious harm and intent to cause criminal damage, it's not just  a few punctures. If you come off/crash you can easily get seriously hurt especially if the puncture isn't immediately obvious. Police don't take this criminal act seriously enough ... but then that's par for the course for plod.

If people were to put tacks/pins/nails and string piano wire at the front door of a local councillor/MP/plod it would be seen as terrorism, this is precisely what this is, terrorism!

I hope the culprit has a fucking excrutiating heart attack!

I livenear Box Hill.  A few summers ago we picked up a whole load of drawings pins on our tyres on a group ride.  On the way back home again later I saw them all spread across the road in the village and stopped to pick them up.  As a was pottering along picking them up, a biker in leathers asked me what I was doing. I explained, and he said 'I just dropped my bike there' and pointed to a fairly sorry-looking motorbike on the pavement.  He didn't have a puncture and the road was straight, but it seemed peculiar at least.  I told the police, who seemed fairly disinterested until I mentioned the motorbike. I told them that I did not know if there was a connection, but it was quite apparent that a motorbike in a 30mph area counts for more than cyclists.

"But, remember, it only takes one idiot to do something like this and suddenly it’s a big issue and people are blaming the whole village. It could easily be just one person...."

Well, it's an English tradition that every village has one.

I’ve got a spare one which I’m sure has cost more than £100....

Some tyres can be over £100. 

Jeggo added: “Cycle tyres are expensive, they can be £30 each.

Fairly cheap tyres may be 'as much as £30', but top quality tyres can be £50 plus. The Contis on my C60 were about £50 each, I seem to remember.

Probably haven't done the tyres of any of the cars or animals feet in the village any good. Morons.

Badger is not far from Wolverhampton in a rather exclusive area of picture-postcard villages with big houses and thatched roof cottages. The roads are narrow and winding. If the drivers there are like the ones in other posh parts of Shropshire, they will want to barrel along the lanes at speed and not be held up by pesky cyclists.

The cyclists are probably riding there because the bigger roads in that area are very busy and unpleasant to ride on.

The continued widespread ignorance about riding two abreast is not a surprise but it's tiresome and leads one to wonder how many rules of the roads the drivers don't know.

Seriously, what is the matter with these morons? What would you rather have? A series of gammons in 4x4s thundering through the streets in their smelly, noisy, dangerous vehicles or a group of cyclists, at the human scale, silent, graceful and not endangering people's lives?

From the original article -

The villager, who asked not to be named, said: “They won’t move over and go one abreast. Sunday was awful. One was really abusive and shouted and swore. I told him his language was appalling and he replied ‘Not as appalling as your ****ing driving’.

I shouldn't but -

How can the cyclists be going "far too fast", that looks like at least a 30mph limit (which as we know does not apply to a non motorised vehicle), and if they are going that fast why does anyone need to overtake them, two abreast or not?

The iodiocy of spreading tacks and not thinking that they would not affect locals motor vehicles too, oh and the awful driver quoted goes further and mentions road tax too.