Cyclist causes big crash with other cyclist after, well being a cyclist

antijoke · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:17

So whilst having my daily chuckle on the daily fail I see this story...

Rider's risky overtake causes calamitous crash sending cyclists sprawling across the floor on a congested superhighway track

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3834940/Rider-s-risky-overtake-causes-calamitous-crash-sending-cyclists-sprawling-floor-congested-superhighway-track.html

And it does indeed highlight the modern cyclist as someone who thinks they are in the Tour De France instead of going to work and races everywhere at top speed with total disregard for everything and everyone else.

Comments are pretty hilarious to read as well.

Should there be rules and regulations made to deal with these nu wave cyclists who treat the place like a special stage from the tour de france? Quite rightly mentioned that if a car did this to a cyclist there would be uproar over the car driver, yet these cyclists are riding without regard for others and are being downright dangerous to not only themselves but to other people.

Dis86 · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:19

Bloody women...riders?

Sankari · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:24

Nice to know they're just as reckless and selfish in designated bike lanes as they are on the road.

wildman · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:26

idiot woman, i bet she doesn't do crap like that in her car, so why does she think its ok on a bicycle ?

Diddums · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:26

Well, she certainly got what she deserved. She was happy to risk the safety of all those around her with her stupid and dangerous overtake and paid the price. hopefully she's learned her lesson but from experience I'm going to say that her stance will be it was the guy on the Boris bike's fault.

Trusty · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:29

This is news? wow..

Skillmister · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:29

No lane discipline (if you can call it that seeing as there are no lanes, more like positioning awareness) from Boris.

Seems pretty stupid that it's a 2 way track with no markings or separation though.

stuman · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:30

It's actually the guy on the Boris bike that causes the accident, if you watch, he wobbles and bashes her into the oncoming.

Felon · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:33

anticonscience said:
Should there be rules and regulations made to deal with these nu wave cyclists who treat the place like a special stage from the tour de france? Quite rightly mentioned that if a car did this to a cyclist there would be uproar over the car driver, yet these cyclists are riding without regard for others and are being downright dangerous to not only themselves but to other people.

Absolutely.

I was a pedestrian in central London for 6 years, I swear - some of the worst behaviour I've seen from human beings, wasn't from gangs of youths, criminals and dodgy people - it was from cyclists. It was an almost daily occurrence to see cyclists screaming at people, punching car windows, getting into altercations, they think they own the bloody place tbh.

zophiel · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:37

stuman said:
It's actually the guy on the Boris bike that causes the accident, if you watch, he wobbles and bashes her into the oncoming.

apart from the fact she hit his handlebars overtaking to close into oncoming cyclists.

MooMoo444 · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:41

"Big crash" .. it's like 2 push bikes, 3 at most. I expected a 30 bike domino.

DaleTheWhale · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:42

Saw this yesterday.

Amazed it's made the news though...

Diddums · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:57

MooMoo444 said:
"Big crash" .. it's like 2 push bikes, 3 at most. I expected a 30 bike domino.

Me too, bloody disappointed. There was so much potential here

Vonhelmet · 13 Oct 2016 at 14:00

Of course it's made the news, it's amazing clickbait for the anti-cycling Daily Wail.

Lethal` · 13 Oct 2016 at 14:29

It's also quite funny that they are reporting on a congested cycle super highway days after claiming the lanes are empty and causing mayhem on the roads.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...g-gridlock-pollution-maddest-thing-empty.html

Junglist · 13 Oct 2016 at 14:40

MooMoo444 said:
"Big crash" .. it's like 2 push bikes, 3 at most. I expected a 30 bike domino.

Yeah, I thought we were going to be treated to something like this.

neil_g · 13 Oct 2016 at 14:43

Gotta love all of the rage from the motorists. It's like cars never have accidents following wreck less behaviour.

To be honest if your not going to to segregate opposing directions of traffic I'm amazed if this doesn't happen more often.

Diddums · 13 Oct 2016 at 15:08

Wreck less behaviour? Seriously?

FrenchTart · 13 Oct 2016 at 15:09

Diddums said:
Wreck less behaviour? Seriously?

To be fair, there were less wrecks there than there could have been.

Sankari · 13 Oct 2016 at 16:43

JunglistE said:
Yeah, I thought we were going to be treated to something like this.

That was beautiful. Poetry in motion.