Who is this cyclist?

I didn't see this Evening Standard article till now,http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23780505-danger-cyclists-to-be-policed-by-council-staff.do
''About 30,000 cyclists enter Westminster every day and it is estimated that up to one in five breaks the Highway Code. Angela Harvey, chairman of Westminster's scrutiny committee, which put together the proposal, said: “We're always getting little old ladies who are knocked down and abused by a cyclist, who leave them on the ground as they ride away.
This naughty naughty cyclist should be caught and barred from the roads - he's giving us all a bad name.
(No exaggeration here from the Westminster this does not bear scrutiny committee, no, no exaggeration at all... :roll: )
''About 30,000 cyclists enter Westminster every day and it is estimated that up to one in five breaks the Highway Code. Angela Harvey, chairman of Westminster's scrutiny committee, which put together the proposal, said: “We're always getting little old ladies who are knocked down and abused by a cyclist, who leave them on the ground as they ride away.
This naughty naughty cyclist should be caught and barred from the roads - he's giving us all a bad name.
(No exaggeration here from the Westminster this does not bear scrutiny committee, no, no exaggeration at all... :roll: )
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http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/ ... s/cycling/
(the contact link at the bottom)
You might want to ask them what they think they are playing at and why they aren't in front of the scrutiny committee defending the good name of cyclists and asking the scrutiny comittee how many drivers it estimates in Westminster break the Highway Code (hint for them: does the council have any parking or speeding inititives, cameras, patrols etc, and why do they think they need them?) and which does the esteemed comittee think is the greater problem for the resources-stretched council to be addressing?
It's the first item, so it's only a few minutes : http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... 2_02_2010/
If I was that pedestrian, I'd be getting a little ticked-off.
Depending upon how the individual codes are stated e.g 'must' then that code is reflected in the law of the land.
From daughter who has recently passed her driving test.
Interesting though that the cyclist at 5.53 getting pulled over for jumping a red light was being over taken by a Paletline truck that was also RLJ but that was allowed to continue scot free :shock:
Have to agree though, some of the riding was shocking.
It still bugs me why a few bad apples swings peoples opinions of us so much, the same cant be said for their views on motorists, plenty of Billy boy racers out there driving like tw*ts but no one seems too complain about them in the same way.
yeah but they pay their road tax i]sic[/i don't they?
Good spot, Antooony! I wasn't sure how many people spotted that so I posted a still from the programme to this thread over on Commuting: http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12682364
oops its at 6.53....me bad. May sound petty but I might enquire with the police as to why the cyclist was stopped and not the lorry as the lorry posed more threat to pedestrians and other road users than the cyclist ever would. Guess their answer will be they were targeting cyclists that day.... :roll:
That cyclist must have the legs of jan ulrich, and the speed of cipolini!
To spend all day managing to run over old ladies, respect. Got some serious endurance going on too.
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Tennyson
Yes, Debra Rolfe scares PM Gordon by pumping a whiff of air in his face from her cycle pump