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hence my request for a cut n paste.It's not even a point-scoring exercise, it's a hits-generating exercise
Pretty sure someone on here a while back said stop posting links to these stories, paste the article then a link to original (with an advisory to not to add to their traffic) and for top marks an email address link for the relevant editor/complaints department.
which I agree with
PERHAPS it is because my late mother had an affair with a cyclist that I have never had much time for them. I would walk home from school to frequently find his bike propped up against the front gate. Then he would suddenly appear in his ludicrous Lycra pretending to have had a puncture. On your bike, mate.The trouble with cyclists is that they take themselves so very seriously, don’t they?
When they are not running red lights or riding on pavements, they are harping on about road safety, as if it is everyone else’s responsibility except theirs.
Take Bradley Wiggins’s recent accident. As ever, the driver is guilty before being proved innocent when no one knows exactly who is to blame. It will be for the police to decide whether the driver should have seen the fastest man on two wheels, who for all we know could have been bombing down the A5209 reliving his Tour de France victory.
But, generally, it is never the cyclist’s fault is it? There are plenty out there who don’t even bother to wear helmets. Indeed Boris’s eponymous bikes that tourists can rent in London don’t even come with them.
Surely only someone with a wicker basket for a brain would take to our congested capital on two wheels with only fresh air between their skull and the tarmac?
The driver is guilty before being proved innocent
Plenty do. Then they complain that London should be “more like Amsterdam”, seemingly forgetting that the city is seven times as big and home to 10 times as many people.There are other kamikaze cyclists who think nothing of riding at night without any lights. Protective clothing? Nah, fluorescent yellow is not my colour, I’ll stick to black. Then when they get knocked off their bike and killed, no one dares question why on earth they were allowed to pedal around in pitch darkness in the first place. No, the driver is always to blame.
Don’t get me wrong, I actually love cycling. I just choose to do it in the safety and comfort of a spinning class at the gym.
Most Mamils (middle-aged men in Lycra) have what can only be described as an “all the gear but no idea” mentality. They dress like Bradley Wiggins but ride their bicycles with the skill of Christopher Biggins.
When I was living in Kingston-upon-Thames, I lost count of the number of cyclists who used to think nothing of riding in the middle of the road, having a chat, seemingly oblivious to other road users, including pedestrians.If you dared beep your horn, you would invariably be subjected to a foul-mouthed tirade. It was even worse on Sundays, when these leotard-wearing “gods” behaved as if they had divine right to dominate the roads.
Of course we all want cyclists to be safe, be they Bradley Wiggins or the paperboy, and British Cycling has called on the Government to make cycling safer by building it into the design of new roads and transport projects. Now that is all very well but cyclists must assume equal responsibility to drivers if they want to be treated as equals on the roads.
Drivers have to pass a test, so why don’t cyclists? Drivers have to wear seatbelts, so why don’t cyclists have to wear helmets and reflective clothing? If vehicles must have MoTs to prove their roadworthiness, why don’t bikes?
When it comes to road safety, it is not drivers who must change gear but cyclists.
cheers rich...i think*.
What a horrible little woman
BTW how much editing has stabiliser done to [url= http://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/the-terrible-journalists-guide-to-writing-an-article-about-bicycles/ ]that article[/url] since posting in september, wiggins bit obviously and I guess the mother/cyclist affair bit...or is he/she spookily accurate 😉
*my BP has risen
Contact info of the online editor if anyone is interested:
Express Website: Online Editor - Geoff Marsh
Email: geoff.marsh@express.co.uk
Sadly unless you visit the article itself you miss out on the comments - like this one!
BIGOT!14.11.12, 12:05pm
Where to start with you bile filled extremist rant?
All cyclists run red lights do they? Well, you are a 'journalist' so therefore you are a disgusting piece of vermin guilty of hacking Milly Dowler's voicemail, yes? Or is that generalising and stereotyping?
It will be for the police to decide about the guilt will it? Maybe in your fascist utopian police state, but here in England & Wales we have Magistrates Courts who decide guilt in minor road traffic collisions such as this - and bombing down the A5209? What's the speed limit there? Does the speed limit apply to bicycles? No! Even Bradley will have to exert himself massively to maintain a speed of 30mph on a section of road - so what is 'bombing'? Oh and it was widely reported that the female driver was reported for summons prior to your 'piece'. Do keep up with the news if you are going to share your ill informed opinion.
Plenty out there who never wear helmets? That's correct but also not an offence in this country, it is optional - unlike speeding, wearing of seat belts, using a mobile phone etc - all of which I (as a police officer) have prosecuted many drivers for. Do all drivers commit road traffic offences? NO! Of course not!
Just because London is bigger than Amsterdam is not a case for removing cycles from the road either - just think if every cyclist commuter got off their bike and back into their cars - because, yes - SHOCK HORROR - most cyclists are motorists too!!!! GRIDLOCK!!!!!
Cyclists in the middle of the road - do please check the Highway Code, and all current relevant safety information you ill informed bigot.
My Wife was knocked down while wearing, hi-viz gear, a helmet and on a brand new non-MOT'able bicycle by a driver who was at fault due to being incompetent.
Your piece is just stereotypical bigotted bile because, oh woe is you, your late Mother chose to have an affair with someone who rode a bicycle. What sort of Daughter outs there dead Mother as an adultress?? The next time a there is a 'black on black' killing in central London, will you write a piece on how EVERY young black male is going to either stab or shoot you? No, of course you wouldn't - or at least you I hope you wouldn't.
There is room on the roads for everyone to share, what does need to be removed from the roads are bigotted vermin who think that saving themselves 4 seconds is more important than saving someones life
You guys do realise she doesn't work for the Daily Express right? She actually works for the Sunday Express - totally different paper with different editorial.
Gutter hack in sensationalist ill-informed rant shocker.
Who do you blame more, the idiot who wrote the piece or the idiots who buy the Daily Express?
Who do you blame more, the idiot who wrote the piece or the idiots who buy the [s]Daily [/s] Sunday Express?
FIFY
I've just emailed the journalist to suggest that she accompany me on my evening cycle commute.
I wonder what her response will be?
😆
Already agreed to ride with someone else now, you're too late!
https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey/status/268713723869409280
https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey/status/268713521766879233
[quote=geetee1972 ]You guys do realise she doesn't work for the Daily Express right? She actually works for the Sunday Express - totally different paper with different editorial.
Same website, same owner, same crock of shit.
Same website, same owner, same crock of shit.
Is he the pornographer or is that the Daily Fail?
Be interesting to see what she writes up after she's been out for her ride (as per Twitter links)
She didn't write that piece innocently so I doubt she's really up for conversion...
you say that as tho its a bad thing. Wonder what he considers more embarrassing, owning Asian babes* or the express?Is he the pornographer
*i was aware he owned ahem specialist magazines, had to [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Desmond ]google[/url] for the titles, honest
Christ, I can't believe people are giving the stupid bitch so much of their time. I'd push her in front of a car if she went riding with me.