Cavendish Roadrage

Corporate Camper

This is how to deal with it; have half a million followers on Twitter and post a picture of the chap and his car...

BillyMansell

link?

mybreakfastconsisted

http://twitter.com/MarkCavendish/status ... 76/photo/1

Mark Cavendish ‏@MarkCavendish
This man just tried to run me & @russellhampton off the road. Now HE'S threatening to call the police! We want him to.

Corporate Camper

Cheers, couldn't manage a link from iPad for some reason

mybreakfastconsisted

I couldn't post the photo, it didn't work. Looks like a French bloke to me but they're GB plates.

antfly

He isn't wearing a beret and he doesn't have onions around his neck and he isn't spitting in the street so how does he look Francais ?

mybreakfastconsisted

His entire demeanour is gallic. Plain as day.

owenlars

Ah but if he was French he would know how to drive with bikes around him and he would also recognise Cav.

PBo

just a pic and tweet? where's the helmet cam footage posted to youtube? pfffffft amateur!

PBo

just a pic and tweet? where's the helmet cam footage posted to youtube? pfffffft amateur!

confused@BR

That'l be Essex then. You get all sorts in Essex.

DrLex

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

I couldn't post the photo, it didn't work. Looks like a French bloke to me but they're GB plates.

Breton cap, but Essex 'plates (Chelmsford, if Wiki is to be believed).

Look out! He's got a pen!

nevman

And a box of tissues.Tosser.

CiB

He's not going to do himself any favours with the anti-cycling community, complaining about being threatened by an old man with a stoop and a beret. The facts don't matter, it's what it looks like to the great unwashed. Bad move Cav, Tweeting this.

airbag

So... It has come to this. (xkcd reference)

veronese68

Drivers with hat on = DANGER!

The Ors

CiB wrote:

He's not going to do himself any favours with the anti-cycling community, complaining about being threatened by an old man with a stoop and a beret. The facts don't matter, it's what it looks like to the great unwashed. Bad move Cav, Tweeting this.

I don't think he was complaining about being threatened by an old man; I think he was complaining about being run off the road by a car, which was driven by said old man.

+ I don't think it matters what he says/tweets, the bike haters will still hate cyclists & the car haters will still hate drivers.

Anyone know what actually happened?

mybreakfastconsisted

MarkCavendish Just noticed in the photo of my road-rage friend, he looks old & fragile. Can assure you he was far from it. Angry, patronising & aggressive

http://fanpagelist.com/user/markcavendish

dodgy

CiB wrote:

He's not going to do himself any favours with the anti-cycling community, complaining about being threatened by an old man with a stoop and a beret. The facts don't matter, it's what it looks like to the great unwashed. Bad move Cav, Tweeting this.

Yup, read the comments on this story, this is what the average bloke in the street thinks of cyclists - even if the cyclist is Mark Cavendish.

http://eurosport.yahoo.com/news/cycling ... 28338.html

Paul E

CiB wrote:

He's not going to do himself any favours with the anti-cycling community, complaining about being threatened by an old man with a stoop and a beret. The facts don't matter, it's what it looks like to the great unwashed. Bad move Cav, Tweeting this.

Old man with a stoop out of the car yes but in it probably a complete menace and highly dangerous and possibly lethal.

mybreakfastconsisted

dodgy wrote:

CiB wrote:

He's not going to do himself any favours with the anti-cycling community, complaining about being threatened by an old man with a stoop and a beret. The facts don't matter, it's what it looks like to the great unwashed. Bad move Cav, Tweeting this.

Yup, read the comments on this story, this is what the average bloke in the street thinks of cyclists - even if the cyclist is Mark Cavendish.

http://eurosport.yahoo.com/news/cycling ... 28338.html

It's really not, it's people who use any story with the word "cyclist" in it to spout their ignorant prejudice, no more representative of the average bloke than Mail comments.

dodgy

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

dodgy wrote:

CiB wrote:

He's not going to do himself any favours with the anti-cycling community, complaining about being threatened by an old man with a stoop and a beret. The facts don't matter, it's what it looks like to the great unwashed. Bad move Cav, Tweeting this.

Yup, read the comments on this story, this is what the average bloke in the street thinks of cyclists - even if the cyclist is Mark Cavendish.

http://eurosport.yahoo.com/news/cycling ... 28338.html

It's really not, it's people who use any story with the word "cyclist" in it to spout their ignorant prejudice, no more representative of the average bloke than Mail comments.

Yeah, perhaps. Still bugs me to see these commentards come out of the woodwork.

jimmypippa

dodgy wrote:

CiB wrote:

He's not going to do himself any favours with the anti-cycling community, complaining about being threatened by an old man with a stoop and a beret. The facts don't matter, it's what it looks like to the great unwashed. Bad move Cav, Tweeting this.

Yup, read the comments on this story, this is what the average bloke in the street thinks of cyclists - even if the cyclist is Mark Cavendish.

http://eurosport.yahoo.com/news/cycling ... 28338.html

Mind you, there is this one:

Nowadays when some motorists overtake me (when I am driving a car) they nearly drive you into the kerb or ditch, so I can just imagine what some do when they overtake a cyclist! Leave more room please when overtaking a car or cyclist!!

Cycloslalomeur

What difference does it make how wimpy the old geezer looks if he's in possession of a deadly weapon? If an old dear was roaming the countryside with a Minimi firing random bursts at passers-by would people just say leave her alone?

Corporate Camper

Cycloslalomeur wrote:

If an old dear was roaming the countryside with a Minimi firing random bursts at passers-by would people just say leave her alone?

EKE_38BPM

Corporate Camper wrote:

Cycloslalomeur wrote:

If an old dear was roaming the countryside with a Minimi firing random bursts at passers-by would people just say leave her alone?

FTFY

CiB

dodgy wrote:

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

dodgy wrote:

CiB wrote:

He's not going to do himself any favours with the anti-cycling community, complaining about being threatened by an old man with a stoop and a beret. The facts don't matter, it's what it looks like to the great unwashed. Bad move Cav, Tweeting this.

Yup, read the comments on this story, this is what the average bloke in the street thinks of cyclists - even if the cyclist is Mark Cavendish.

http://eurosport.yahoo.com/news/cycling ... 28338.html

It's really not, it's people who use any story with the word "cyclist" in it to spout their ignorant prejudice, no more representative of the average bloke than Mail comments.

Yeah, perhaps. Still bugs me to see these commentards come out of the woodwork.

Which was my point, that Cav tweeting this instantly gives all the brain-deads an opportunity to reboot their brains into default mode and remember a) that they hate cyclists and b) that they can actually dump their brain-spew on various online sites. For all the effort we might put in advancing the cause, their are a hundred times as many who can't wait to repeat some w@nk anecdote about how they were held up for 40 miles by a pair of cyclists and we all should be stood against a wall and shot at.

Better all round if Cav & his mate had just told the old boy in the beret to go stuff himself and then forget about it, rather than twittering it.

Hoopdriver

Paul E wrote:

CiB wrote:

He's not going to do himself any favours with the anti-cycling community, complaining about being threatened by an old man with a stoop and a beret. The facts don't matter, it's what it looks like to the great unwashed. Bad move Cav, Tweeting this.

Old man with a stoop out of the car yes but in it probably a complete menace and highly dangerous and possibly lethal.

There was nothing old nor frail about that car.

A bullet from an old muzzleloader can kill you just as dead as one from an AK47

CiB

Ok. I'll try again, with the abridged highlights.

The facts don't matter, it's what it looks like to the great unwashed.

Cav tweeting this instantly gives all the brain-deads an opportunity to remember a) that they hate cyclists and b) that they can actually dump their brain-spew on various online sites. Which they do.


What does / did Cav expect out of this tweet? That an army of people will recognise the old duffer, let the police know and by tomorrow night the old t w @ t be in a cell waiting to make an appearance before the local magistrates? No chance. At the extreme most a policeman will be despatched to get his side of the story and he may just may get a slap on the wrist in the form of 'be more careful around cyclists in future'.

In the meantime cyclists are shown up again as being precious about road space, and yet again have caused a hold up and for good measure attacked some old boy in his car. It doesn't matter how false that impression is, that's what happened as a result. It's a whole pile of chances for those that despise us to justify their dislike and post negative comments or spout their worthless anecdotes in the pub.

As soon as I saw his original tweet (I follow him, my mate Cav ) it struck me then that no good can come of doing this.

Edit to add that they have a picture of him, his car with reg number clearly visible, and there (at least) two riders so in theory that's a victim and a witness. Go to the police, not encouraging vigilantism on twitter.

JamesB5446

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Corporate Camper wrote:

Cycloslalomeur wrote:

If an old dear was roaming the countryside with a Minimi firing random bursts at passers-by would people just say leave her alone?

FTFY

She doesn't look that old.

rjsterry

Can't see what all the fuss is about. The point was that not only had the chap had "...tried to run [them] off the road...", but then threatened them with going to the police, hence the "... we want him to." comment. As for the 'backlash' that is giving it way too much credit. So some idiots reached for their keyboards and posted some rubbish in the comments section of a website - that's just the daily background noise of the internet isn't it?

Oh, and it's not a beret.