Sir David: tell your lads to stop at red lights!!

nom de plum

Just a quick rant, I need to get this off my chest
I live in Wilmslow Cheshire. i see the GB lads come thru on training rides almost every day. can someone (Dave?) please tell them to stop at red lights. They set the worst example to other riders, especially young riders.
British Cycling bangs on about safety for cyclist on our road. they have all sorts of campaigns and petitions. But sky emblazoned; dogma riding pros who glide straight thru on red are driving me mad... its really a no-brainier that car drivers resent this. We'll never be accepted as "traffic" if we can't obey the highway code ourselves.

skinnypunter

Where's the 'like' button? I couldn't agree more.

turnerjohn

I'd put that on their twitter account ! :shock:
I'm quite shocked especially since Brad and Shane got hit by cars recently !

Graham K

Drop em an Email, if you can dates times and junctions too.

GGBiker

They're watching the power meter not the traffic lights!

Ignoring red lights....it's so "pro"

redvee

Screendump of OP tweeted @TeamSky

team47b

Hope they take note of what you said before they arrive here next month - the police have guns here :shock:

Phil Fouracre

Real bloody shame - after all the positive publicity last year. The more high profile the more effing arrogant!!

riggsy81

nom de plum wrote:

Just a quick rant, I need to get this off my chest
I live in Wilmslow Cheshire. i see the GB lads come thru on training rides almost every day. can someone (Dave?) please tell them to stop at red lights. They set the worst example to other riders, especially young riders.
British Cycling bangs on about safety for cyclist on our road. they have all sorts of campaigns and petitions. But sky emblazoned; dogma riding pros who glide straight thru on red are driving me mad... its really a no-brainier that car drivers resent this. We'll never be accepted as "traffic" if we can't obey the highway code ourselves.

Couldn't agree more I live in Handforth so see this all the time, seems to be becoming a common trait of a lot of cyclists nowadays and its doing my bloody head in

capt_slog

When they're spread all over the road following a collision, it will no doubt be the motorist who gets the worst of it.

On the same issue...
On my evening commute some weeks ago, I stopped at a pedestrian crossing on red (in the car BTW) and a cyclist went through it on my inside. A car coming in the opposite direction saw the light on red and so assumed it was safe to make a right turn into the road that's about 20 meters from the crossing, nearly wiping out the cyclist. Cyclist stopped and was giving it all the actions; shaking head and gesturing, and I thought he was going to go after the driver he was so cross, and I was ready to follow them both and put him right.

danlikesbikes

I stopped on Friday at a red light for a crossing & 2 edjits went straight through and scared the people trying to cross and in fact to make things worse they shouted insults at the pedestrians crossing. Then there is me stopped and waiting minding my own business & I start taking flack from 2 middle aged people crossing as if it were me that had ridden through, shouted insults and then turned around to wait at the lights.

nom de plum

redvee wrote:

Screendump of OP tweeted @TeamSky

nice one redvee cheers... good idea... i'll tweet it again to team sky (edit n copy n paste) cos your screen shot is difficult to read... thanks again