[Closed] Cyclists are a menace ( Jeremy Vine show Radio 2 @ Noon)

How many do cars kill?

Edit: "over 4 dogs a year" sounds like it's not quite 5, do we kill 4.62 dogs a year?

Killed 2 of my cats! 👿

But do we kill them while cycling? 🙂

It should be the other way round surely! I sometimes wonder if the dog I ran over (sending me over the bars at some speed) survived the experience, at the time it ran back into the woods yelping as I writhed about on the floor swearing at its owner.

Evens us up with all the dog sh*te we have to endure riding through...

I once killed a squirrel - not quite a dog, I know 🙂

Huh? 4 dogs are killed in total each year by cyclists, or we kill an average of 4 each per year?

How many pets to cars kill? Jerremy Vine AKA Jerremy Kyle for the Radio 😉 I often turn this off as its sooo sh^&e. !

Its his irritating voice and the way he can only talk at you while looking sidesways on Panorama (the new dumbed down version) that really get me...

Remember to give an extra big smile and a wave to all the grumpy car drivers you see today. 🙂

im a menace to society, its true.
im also in league with alquaeda,
i was driving the car that was chasing diana.
i was on the grassy knoll
i shot the sherriff (but i didnt shoot his deputy)

i wonder if she scoops her poops.

It's the main reason I ride a bike actually. To kill dogs. I love it. 🙄

uplink - were you that guy that got a squirrel caught in his rotor once?!

Did Jeremy Vine have a frontal lobotomy when he moved to Radio 2? I used to respect the guy...but now he's an inflammatory idiot.

I think it was four dogs killed in her park !!! I can't wait for this one.

I've killed over 4 dogs just this morning.

The Jeremy Vine program is pathologically averse to cyclists. No doubt the dogs were crossing the park whilst lights were red so folk can rant about us running lights too.

Perhaps the fact that there are a fair number of cyclists out there who act like ejits without any regard to the Highway Code that your average Radio 2 listener gets wound up and feels the need to vent their spleen..... 😀

I had a Staffy get his head stuck between my front wheel and forks once after going for the front wheel.

Hardly a scratch on the dog, but boy are those things strong, glad he got my wheel and not my leg 😉

Jeremy Vine, was ticked off by a policewoman for cycling in a London park:

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What tyres for most effective dogkill?

Jemery Vine is a ****

21 dogs are needlessly destroyed every day in the UK - from the interweb so must be true

apparently there were around 7.2 million pet dogs in the uk in 2008.

4 in a year = hang all cyclists 😆

uplink - were you that guy that got a squirrel caught in his rotor once?!

Alas, no - it was on a road bike, it made a dash across the road & was promptly stopped by the front wheel, rapidly followed by the rear 🙂

Here we go 😈 - No turn it off its shite 😆

It's nice to see that the egregious Vine is focusing on the big issues, and not playing to the Daily Mail gallery.

Well I mangled a dog in my rear wheel just last week. It was trying to mangle me before I got it though..

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This is a crime scene.

lol at jeremy vine whinging about people riding bikes in the PARK of all places.

has he got kids?
if so can they ride bikes?
if so, did the learn to ride on the roads of central london?
teetering haphazardly around the m25 perhaps?

Wizards

Sleeve

lol at jeremy vine whinging about people riding bikes in the PARK of all places.

I'm guessing you've not listened then?

It's not Vine - it's that smack-head from Blue Peter

This is a crime scene.

Yeah, look at the height of that stem

according to a group of locals aparently - coz thats gospel then 🙂

How many people have been knocked off, fallen from their bikes or bitten by dogs?

They really are getting desperate for stories arn't they?

Cyclist faster than the speed of light (too fast to be seen)! That lets me off

I use a bell and don't cycle in a park.

Just a few dam cyclists giving us a bad name.

4 dogs?

What about the cyclists killed on the road each day???

****in mutt (I do slow down for them though)

4 dogs a year? is that all? Note to self, must try harder, but to be honest, I find the car is much easier and safer when it comes to killing dogs.

Go fella 🙂

Oh dear - the guy defending cyclists has a ridiculous hatred of dogs - not good - we need a better rep!

I know of a cyclist run over by a dog! Honnest 🙂

Here's the result:

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i was looking at the blog uplink, cant listen at work (thankfully?)

Ludicrous waste of time topic. Richard Bacon is probably high anyway.

Incensed!!! Just had to email the show... 😮

er, aint it the dogs who always start it !

grtdkad - Member

Incensed!!! Just had to email the show...

Don't bother you never get on in my experience of many many emails!

Incensed!!

You're easily incensed - it was a 'nothing' of a story

Is that i then?

the worrying thing with these programs as they send out an message to everyone that Cyclists are fair game as there bad people...

@ simonm ...nope, I often chase dogs snapping at their heels & living little landmines where they want to run

Foxyrider, was it Digby the Biggest Dog in the World?

Incensed as her example was clearly referring to an 'off the leash' dog [and an invisible cyclist]. We get regular walkers round here with 2-3 dogs loose and a good way from the group - fed up with the unpredictability of the dogs and the pooop left behind....

Bristol to Bath bike path is full of doggies and owners.

I always ring my bell and slow down.

The ****in dog still jumps at me while I go past.

Incensed as her example was clearly referring to an 'off the leash' dog [and an invisible cyclist]. We get regular walkers round here with 2-3 dogs loose and a good way from the group - fed up with the unpredictability of the dogs and the pooop left behind....

ooh I bet you were 'spitting feathers'? 😉

It was this dog:

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Oi Jeremy Bacon!

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Ooooops, not like me 😳

Incensed!!!

the worrying thing with these programs as they send out an message to everyone that Cyclists are fair game as there bad people...

dont let them down then, lets go round and stamp on richard bacons dog?

Where the hell did they get the idea for that story?

How do you go from grumbling about how cyclists kill millions of car drivers / pedestrians every year by jumping red lights and kicking the shit out of grannies on the pavement while screaming abuse at small children, along with the worst of all never paying road tax for all the amazing cycling facilities we have in this country to:
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I'm actually impressed with whoever managed to find this one and get it on the radio!

Looks like I am wrong, this is a problem with cycling from the top down! Look at these videos of pro cyclists setting an example of something it is endemic within the sport:

In both cases the cyclist is clearly to blame as I imagine in much the same way that the ones in the park are...

Dog Killing - Cycling's Secret Shame!

I really don't care. It's just dumbed down cr*p.

I ran over a fox once. Or rather it ran under my rear wheel. It survived (at least for a while).

I just tried to kill my dog with my bike - she won't keep still while I ride at her!

I'll just get in the car and see if that works any better...

I've probably missed the boat on this, but I've just sent them an email as follows:

Dear Jeremy Vine,

I am facing charges of assault after "dooring" a particularly antisocial cyclist. This individual had sped through a pedestrian crossing, as is commonplace these days, and in doing so had come very close to knocking over a mother with a pushchair. I observed this in my rear view mirror, and as he approached to pass me, I opened my door, knocking him off. To my disappointment I don't think I caused him any serious injuries, but his bicycle was a write-off and he will think twice before doing the same thing.

In my opinion this action, although extreme, was justified by the numbers of these people who openly flout the law and in doing so endanger innocent pedestrians and motorists. I have observed many such examples on my daily comings and goings, and felt that an example had to be made.

Listening to your show today, this seems to be a commonly held opinion, and there are many people who feel that cyclists are the number one menace on our roads, thanks to their thoughtless conduct. A legally minded friend has suggested that I contact your programme and ask for today's edition, and your previous programmes on cyclists, to be introduced as evidence at my trial. I am sure that if the court can be made to understand the strength of public feeling on the issue of these lycra yobs, then they will take a more favourable view of my actions and perhaps even result in an acquittal?

Have you forgotten your medication Mr A?

Where the hell did they get the idea for that story?

you know in South Park when the story lines for Family Guy are made by Manitees?

Well they use a similar system only the use Badgers to randomly select snippets from the Daily Mail

Forget Mohamed giving Peter a Salmon Helmet, it's all about Rabid Dogs attacking ASBO cyclist paedophiles

Have you forgotten your medication Mr A?

Yes. That's why I'm so cranky.

It's obviously a wind-up. But I'm hoping that some air-headed researcher reads it, has an "oh shit" moment and resolves to make their future programmes deal with issues other than aiming venom at a mostly harmless and vulnerable group of road users. [/climbs off high horse]

Looks like I am wrong, this is a problem with cycling from the top down! Look at these videos of pro cyclists setting an example of something it is endemic within the sport

Could that Labrador in the first vid have looked any more sheepish... poor old thing 😆

I've only killed 3 dogs so far this year. There's not much of 2009 left to get the last one. I'll have to kill 5 in 2010 if I don't get it.

I'm hoping that some air-headed researcher reads it, has an "oh shit" moment

You're more likely to get invited on the show as a star guest 😀

I don't like all this talk of killing dogs :-/

I thought dogs were used for killing deer on this forum?

Ahem. Please don't bring that up rocketdog 😉

just been knocked off my bike this afternoon by a dog, owner didnt even apologise as the dog chased me 🙁 bent rear hanger and snapped my chain 🙁 will fix it after weekend but not happy at all

It is awful, to kill dogs!

I'm awful
I'm a cyclist (of sorts)
QED