Bristol cyclist flagged on Strava and reported to British Cycling … for crossing into Wales for bike ride during lockdown

And on the BBC news this evening there was a flight from Belfast to London that was full. 2 inches of separation is definitely not compliant to any lockdown rules I've read.

How can a lone cyclist get criticised for some healthy exercise and a flight full of people not be quarantined for 14 days or arrested for likely unnecessary journeys.

Leave well alone please... If your sat on your arse looking for excuses to tell tales on others, then you perhaps need to take a good look at your self.  Poor chap out there alone minding his own business.

The guidance does say you can cycle to work. I guess they think this means 2 or 3 miles and not the sort of mileage and time that road.cc contributors have mentioned in the past.
Or perhaps it is best they are ignorant...

I wish the Welsh shambles had issued the same 'helpful' advice to drivers and suggested they drive no further than they could have walked back from in case of accident or breakdown.

Would have gone down very well I'm sure.

Anyone who spends the day trawling strava looking for rides to 'flag' and riders to 'report to BC and the police' really needs to get a life.

Even before lockdown this person was probably someone who sits in their house all day; doesn't do very much, doesn't socialize, few to no interests and is generally disliked by their peers.

Hope the rider enjoyed his ride out to Wales.

Anyway, I'm off for a 50 miler into West Lancs.

With the Welsh guidance, doesn't it mean, then, that you can ride as far or for as long as you want so long as you fully intend only to walk home if you have an unfixable mechanical?  

"Reasonable distance" always seems a bit vague - is that the distance I'd find reasonable to walk, or the distance that might seem reasonable to my (entirely hyperbole) neighbour who gets in a car to change their TV channel?

These fake atheletes can be reported to Stava.

Just go in to the 'athelete', and click the cog.
Report Fake Profile

You'll then get a message box advising that the profile will be looked in to.

What Strava does then .... who knows - but the more people that put the effort in reporting the fakes, the more likely that Strava will act.

Interstingly, there is  Wilshire Strava Police who claim to be 'Associated with Wiltshire Police'

https://www.strava.com/athletes/55593624 

That Strava Police account (well, there might be several of them I suppose) was set up right at the start of lockdown, it was giving kudos to completely random people for doing <1hr rides and commenting on other rides for being too long / too far etc.

Someone clearly has enough time to go scrolling through the hundreds of thousands of rides uploaded to Strava daily in the UK and doing that. 

As others have mentioned, this pandemic has really brought out the curtain twitchers, the parochial NIMBYs and the little Hitlers - it's like a primary school playground of kids going "ohh, I'm gonna tell Miss about you!"

No issue with going out for a 4 hour self supported ride on quiet roads. But regardless of not knowing the current official regulations and accompanying guidelines, why does anyone feel the need to memorialise the event on a public platform at a time where cyclists in general are getting a bad press and are already targets of vigilante gammon defence forces around the country? Why give them more ammunition?

All I can see as a result from publishing activities like "cyclist from Bristol" is that said gammons are going to be ever more vocal in setting an agenda for Police forces to be stopping cyclists from going about their lawful activities instead of doing what we want them to be doing in policing the roads against dangerous drivers.

Clearly the fault of the Welsh government for not actively patrolling their borders.  I expect all cyclists to be refused entry while riding into Wales.

This is clearly long delayed revenge for the Severn Bridge toll booths being on the English side.

I've done lots of long rides recently, including my longest ever. I just don't see the need to tell the world about it... Shit, just have 

I would title all my Strava rides with this delightful Malcolm Tucker quote...

"You breathe a word of this to anyone, you f***ing c**t, and I will tear your f***ing skin off, I will wear it to your mother's birthday party and I will rub your nuts up and down her leg whilst whistling Bohemian f***ing Rhapsody, right?"

Strava Police arrest this man,
He's way to fast and, 
Stolen all my crowns,
But we'll get them back next Sunday.

There are some good climbs there, how do I offer Kudos 🤟