Five Live are about to host a discussion on ‘cyclists with helmet cams who deliberately goad car drivers, so they can then post the footage online when they lose it and swear at them, or assault them.

Just in case this isn’t going to be blood pressure raising enough, they are having the monotone drone of that freezer bag full of porridge Adrian Chiles marshall proceedings

Should be informative. Shall we have bets on what will come up?

I’m going for a London cabbie pointing out that we don’t pay road tax, within the first minute

Any other likely candidates?

Indignant of Shoreditch will claim all cyclists just break the rules, all the time, unlike car drivers…

(this could be a great drinking game if it was not Monday morning)

Carlton Reid is on there so at least cyclists get a voice…

I’ll go for man who starts angry but then can’t can’t quite remember why half way through his loosely related anecdote

It’s just started. The dodgy lawyer has said that we need a system of registration so that cyclists can be identified and disqualified just like drivers.

And Adrian Chiles is very annoying.

It’s just started. The dodgy lawyer has said that we need a system of registration so that cyclists can be identified and disqualified just like drivers.

Except this has never worked anywhere in the world it has been tried, its a completely daft idea that no one anywhere near power either locally or nationally has ever suggested.

The BBC is not being “balanced” by giving such marginal ideas a platform.

Would they host a phone in on whether airbags should be replaced by metal spikes to encourage safer driving?

As a national public broadcaster the BBC should really be doing a lot more to explain to the ignorant masses that cyclists are part of the solution not part of the problem

Well that was crap.

I used their web-cam feed to listen/watch it.

Radio with pictures really spoils the experience.

That was ridiculous! Bloke demanding that we’re all registered, so as to be held accountable for our transgressions, without coming up with any realistic idea of how this was going to be done

Tool!

Well Carlton Reid gave a suitably dismissive response to the registration idea when he asked the lawyer where he would draw the line and if pedestrians needed to wear t-shirts with their details on them or have chips in their head 🙂

Why the BBC is giving air-time to someone like Nick Freeman though is beyond me, although it does fit with the 5-Live agenda of giving over the morning to your professional moaner, “Mr outraged from Chippenham” types who have nothing better to do with their lives than have a rant on a radio phone in.

Just submitted a complaint regarding their discrimination against cyclist, no doubt they will ignore it!

Just submitted a complaint regarding their discrimination against cyclist, no doubt they will ignore it!

Why not ring them up? Knowing 5-live they’ll probably put you on the air 😀

I saw about 3 cars jump red lights today (on a commute of about 4 miles). Fortunately they were all clearly identified by the license plate on them, so I immediately informed the police.

Within minutes, a police helicopter – not a small one, but a massive great Chinook – swooped in, and about a dozen police officers in full combat gear and “TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT” emblazoned on their flak jackets dropped out of it on lines. They grabbed the driver, and then roared off with her and her car dangling beneath the Chinook. A few seconds later, they dropped the car onto the scrapyard in Chesterton.

Oldnpastit – really? That’s good.

Freeman was a hoot suggesting we need to be able to identify cyclists so they can be held to account for their transgressions his principle and lucrative income stream is to find inventive ways of arguing that the registered keeper of a car cannot be shown to have been the offending driver or indeed that the registered keeper was never even asked to identify the driver even though the NIP was later found on Freeman’s file.

The only logical end to his arguments would be that car drivers would have to log on with the dvla identifying themselves as the driver of a particular car prior to each journey.

They’re at it again. This mornings phone in is presently inviting motorists who have had altercations with cyclists to phone in.

Get the blood pressure tablets at the ready

Could you phone in and ask them to have a phone-in for cyclists who’ve been nearly killed by gobshite motorists on Monday morning? Then we can all phone in and discuss how we’ve nearly been killed on a daily basis for the outrageous idea of going to work.