Health and safety row as boy, 10, is barred from cycling to school

The story, written by the Stig-like Daily Mail Reporter, is not anti-cycling as such, but this comment got on my nerves.



Nonsense. I'd easily be able to spot a cyclist, especially if he was wearing brightly coloured overgarments and using lights, no matter how small they were. As far as I'm concerned the only drivers that cyclists cause problems for are impatient ones. And I'm glad I'm not your son- I started walking myself to school when I was about 9 years old. 'Oh but there's paedophiles on every street corner' you'd say- codswallop.

I'm aware there's some users of this board who have no respect for cyclists- but this one obeys the rules of the road on his steed.

It's just cyclists who ride on the pavement who piss me off. I was walking along a fairly thin pavement along the edge of a bridge at other day when this cyclist came up, blocking the whole pavement. What the fuck are pedestrians supposed to do, walk in the road?

Obnoxious cyclists like that are no better or worse than obnoxious motorists or obnoxious pedestrians, it would be much easier if everyone respected the other groups and got on with it

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... pilot.html



A generally appalling post, but dogging bikes!! Whatever next!

At least you don't have to wind the window down to give the onlookers a better view.

This is an initiative of the Conservative controlled Kensington & Chelsea Council, backed by the Conservative Mayor of London. But you know whose fault it really is, don't you?

theyre loving this one:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... visor.html

529 comments, it's good to know the Mail readers only care about important issues. Also nice to see this heavily downrated...

Reasearchers in Belgium have released a paper on triggers of heart attacks (link to abstract) including physical exertion, drug use, alcohol and coffee consumption and negative emotions. Naturally, a Mail journo has managed to spin this into a story about how cycling causes heart attacks. Unbelievable! How many people reading this will be put off from doing exercise now in the mistaken belief that it'll be healthier to be a couch potato?

The comments section has turned into an argument on whether cyclists should pay 'road tax' or not, with the pro-cycling arguments being heavily voted into the green, probably something to do with links to the story from big cycling sites such as road.cc

One must add at this point that despite the researchers finding that negative emotions were a trigger for heart attacks, I can hardly see the Mail embracing a new regime of enlightenment any time soon.

Unmoderated Horace, I got a comment through about scotch egg eating, chip shop searching columnist drivers through.

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I'd rather shoot Paul Dacre than anyone else in the country- Colin Dexter. A direct quote from the Radio Times m'learned friends

Death by dangerous cycling: New offence to crackdown on bikers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ikers.html

The comparison to the punishment that can be given to a driver who kills is pointless. A driver killed a cyclist round here not too long ago. His punishment? The 14 years in jail you can be given for death by dangerous driving (I'd say ploughing into someone from behind on a straight dual carriagway, on a clear, sunny summers evening was dangerous)? Nope;

As for the cyclist who hit the girl, which seems to have started this whole thing as it's the family's MP who's proposed the new law.....the story was apparently very badly reported (shock horror). It was never actually determined that he was riding on the pavement. A number of witnesses (the girl's friends) said he wasn't, then they changed their mind at later interviews and all gave a matching account of events. Even so, the burden of proof wouldn't have allowed for a dangerous cycling conviction, if the same rules are being applied as they are to cars.

The guy was caught on CCTV just before the collision doing a max of 17mph, on the road. The group of kids then appeared and he claims they blocked the road. He shouted to move out of the way, they did, then Rhianon stepped/fell back in front of him, leaving no time to avoid the collision. He then stopped, performed CPR and called 999, unfortunately, she died.

Imagine that happening to a driver. Driving at no more than 17mph, a toot of the horn when drunk kids step into the road, they move so you carry on, then a girl is pushed/falls right in front of the car, and as a freak accident hits her head on the kerb and dies. The mail comments would be full of "good, serves the feral youths right, where were the parents" comments.

Instead we get 300 comments of war-on-motorist-lycra-lout-ran-over-a-granny wankery.

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The upper hand is on the other foot now.

Typical Mail for you, being selective with their details so they make their readers dance to their tune.

Cyclists = lefties. Fair game.

Olympic trial of London road race causes chaos as furious drivers are forced to abandon their cars



I've been informed by londonders that there were signs around for weeks warning about this.


Fuck me, Alan had to do some exercise?! It's worse than Syria!

Have these people not got legs?!

And the comments....oh well, this one cheered me up:

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The upper hand is on the other foot now.

Dave and Boris the Lefties.
I'd be surprised if they're not poofters too.