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Steve Firth
Guest
Last week on TV there was a short video featuring the antics of a
cyclist in Lancashire. The programme was supposed to be advocating the
benefits of cycling as a means of getting to work.
In it the cyclist used what appeared to be a helmet mounted camera and
gave a running commentary on his progress. The person in question was
styled as an active campaigner for cycling and has contributed in the
past to "The Cycle Campaign Network's Campaign for High Standards."
One might, therefore, have expected to see a demonstration of the best
in cycling proficiency with, perhaps, some comment on the economic,
environmental and health benefits of cycling. Instead the program
portrayed someone bleating self-righteously about every other road user
while throwing in such comments as "whoops it's a bit naughty but I need
to go the wrong way down a one-way street here to save time." He also
showed the usual disregard for Give Way and STOP markings and for red
lights, preferring instead to shout aloud about his love of "sweeping
turns downhill" which were achieved by the simple expedient of not
looking at oncoming traffic and diving around a curve flat out, ignoring
the STOP marking where that curve led onto another road.
General standards of cycling portrayed in the video were IMO low with
scant regard to traffic law.
Is this how cyclists wish to be seen by the general public? Self
righteous tits who consider that the law applies only to others?
I hope the police use the video as evidence for prosecution as they
would in the case of a motorist who recorded himself driving recklessly.
cyclist in Lancashire. The programme was supposed to be advocating the
benefits of cycling as a means of getting to work.
In it the cyclist used what appeared to be a helmet mounted camera and
gave a running commentary on his progress. The person in question was
styled as an active campaigner for cycling and has contributed in the
past to "The Cycle Campaign Network's Campaign for High Standards."
One might, therefore, have expected to see a demonstration of the best
in cycling proficiency with, perhaps, some comment on the economic,
environmental and health benefits of cycling. Instead the program
portrayed someone bleating self-righteously about every other road user
while throwing in such comments as "whoops it's a bit naughty but I need
to go the wrong way down a one-way street here to save time." He also
showed the usual disregard for Give Way and STOP markings and for red
lights, preferring instead to shout aloud about his love of "sweeping
turns downhill" which were achieved by the simple expedient of not
looking at oncoming traffic and diving around a curve flat out, ignoring
the STOP marking where that curve led onto another road.
General standards of cycling portrayed in the video were IMO low with
scant regard to traffic law.
Is this how cyclists wish to be seen by the general public? Self
righteous tits who consider that the law applies only to others?
I hope the police use the video as evidence for prosecution as they
would in the case of a motorist who recorded himself driving recklessly.
