Not great publicity for cycling.

V5ade

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/8639481.stm
I hope that the poor pedestrian make a swift a full recovery

ExeterSimon

There's a difference between a cyclist and a 15 year old toe-rag on a bike.

D-Cyph3r

A 15-year-old was earlier arrested on suspicion of assault, theft and perverting the course of justice.

Not a cyclist, just a yobbo on a bike.

Thewaylander

yup scrote kid on a bike, not a cyclist

bails87

Still, when someone is arguing that cyclists are just as dangerous as drunk drivers, this'll come out.

All the same, I wouldn't equate a joyrider with an 'ordinary' driver.

mancjon

Still, when someone is arguing that cyclists are just as dangerous as drunk drivers, this'll come out.

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we may well distinguish between the 2 but the non-cycling person won't unfortunately

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There's some bad publicity for driving

wordnumb

bails87 wrote:

There's some bad publicity for driving

Yes. But a single story illustrates a generalisation far better than multiple examples.

bails87

wordnumb wrote:

bails87 wrote:

There's some bad publicity for driving

Yes. But a single story illustrates a generalisation far better than multiple examples.

I know, I was just trying to put the one injured pedestrian into some context against the numbers that die in accidents involving cars.

peter413

I'm 15 in a few months and I get some really dirty looks from people when on the bike.

Why?

I don't behave eratically, never dodge in and out of people, ride on the road when safe to do so and I get iff and walk if it's really busy.

Some people are just dikheads, most people who aren't cyclists are in fact towards cyclists (or anyone on a bike)

Valy

What do you mean "towards" cyclists or people on bikes? :S

peter413

Valy wrote:

What do you mean "towards" cyclists or people on bikes? :S

As in anyone that looks like a cyclist to them (even yobbos on bmx's)

"Towards" as in they think the same of anyone on a bike (they hate us basically)

Valy

peter413 wrote:

Valy wrote:

What do you mean "towards" cyclists or people on bikes? :S

As in anyone that looks like a cyclist to them (even yobbos on bmx's)

"Towards" as in they think the same of anyone on a bike (they hate us basically)

I see.

I don't think that "all" people would automatically hate cyclists - there would be reason, otherwise they might just think "people on bikes".

RealMan

There was an interesting article I read (I think in singletrack mag). It was all about when anything happens involving a cyclist, they are always referred to by the media, as a cyclist.

For example, a 23 year old man with a heroin addiction mugs an old lady and she ends up in hospital. Because he escaped on a bike, the story reads: Cyclist puts old lady in hospital for purse. Or something to that extent.

What the author of the article concluded was that because journalists all see people as the same as them, that all journalists should be given bikes for free, and forced to cycle to work. Then, one day, there might just be an article:

Non-cyclist mugs old lady