He looks out of control in the clip. The car clearly has gone down a road that is temporarily closed in that direction, but he literally rams his bike in front of it.
That's an edited video missing out what went before - that's the driver's 2nd attempt to go through the "closed road" against the No Entry sign against a fairly significant flow of traffic, with pauses. There is an even shorter one, which was featured in newspapers, facebook groups etc.
(For me, it was a mistake for him to try and stop the vehicle the second time, as the driver was clearly quite reckless, even though the driver was committing the offence for the second time. I'm also not convinced by his decision stop him the first time.)
The Met are unlikely to enforce on this, as they have stepped back from enforcing "ignoring keep left sign" type offences. That was one reason why Mikey stopped doing Gandalf Corner, and now does mainly phone users. To do with decriminalised offences, and policing priorities aiui.
The Fiat driver was a naughty boy but it still looks like Cycling Mikey put the bike in his path.
I don't think so, look at the slomo from 4:10. It looks like he lets go of the bike and pulls himself back to avoid being hit himself, possibly then attempting to grab the bicycle seat to stop it as he realises what's happening. There's certainly no sign of him pushing the bike onto the car.
Given the basket on the back, there's no way he stepped off the back and managed to stay upright.
He wasn't riding the bike.
Agreed. He made sure it was the bike that was hit rather than himself.
The drivers are dicks, but so is he.
He's a 'dick' because he didn't get hit himself?
He's trying to stop drivers committing offences, nothing wrong with that, and good luck to him. Not how I would choose to spend my time, but he has his reasons. I find him pretty courageous.
Apparently the country is going to the dogs because of an epidemic of petty lawbreaking, but when someone, like Cycling Mikey, is courageous enough to try to do something about it, they are labelled a dick. Some people need to take a very close look at themselves.
Film it, send the number plate to the dvla. Job done.
The article on the BBC is quite balanced. Whatever anyone believes about the case its probably not the best thing to have so much uncertainty about the conviction. One way or another she deserves another day in court.
I would not want to on the jury.
I would point out that she had 10 months in court for the first trial + a second trial + multiple appeals. She's had more days in court than 95%+ of her fellow inmates. Maybe 99%+.
Her lawyers have submitted a file to the CCRC. If the CCRC decide her convictions are sound, I would hope that would be the end of it. If the CCRC decide the case needs looking at again, then that should happen.
Exactly. My guess is that the CCRC will in the end send some but not all convictions back to the CA, though they could send all of them (a decision to send some but not all could easily itself find that decision appealed to the SC, as of course if they are not all sent LL remains convicted of murder/attempted murder what ever happens).
The CA (Criminal Division) is a steep uphill climb for appellants. Though not impossible. The recent successful decision in Plummer is a classic even in that court's distinctive history. Worth a read if you want the history of how someone (arguably plainly guilty and a total scrote) got off in the end, after about 28 years. The popular press largely ignored it. I wonder why??
The issue with sending some but not all back would be this:
Either she is a serial killer responsible for killing or attempting to kill many, many babies.
OR
She is innocent of all charges and a case has been created against her.
There isn't a halfway house where she killed a few of them, but the others are natural causes/bad practice at a failing unit.
Actually, I don't find it impossible to believe that your halfway house scenario happened. The classic Noble Cause Corruption, in the police, is assigning a whole pile of crimes to someone who isn't guilty of them, but is guilty of other, similar crimes.
EDIT: For some reason I am reminded of the following story. After Operation Source (midget sub attack on the Tirpitz, WWII), its been claimed that papers were sent up the line, alleging that vast quantities of equipment were lost along with the submarines. More tonnage of material than the subs in question displaced.
My grandfather was a quartermaster officer in the 8th Army.
He loved the Germans. Every time he got a demand from HQ for some equipment he didn’t want to hand back, they wrote it off for him.
To link to another point here, this included a gold Rolex watch that he had been mistakenly ordered to purchase for the Brigadier.
I still love the story of the RAF squadron that lost everything in the retreat from France - apart from their aircraft. Including all their documents. And including the forms to report lost stuff. So they ended up back in the U.K., stuck.
So the story goes, the squadron went out and stole a large collection of spares, documents etc from a depot in a fairly blatant robbery.
An early form of the process state, right there.
The UK brought back some Argentine aircraft after the Falklands War, as spoils of war, but didn't have any paperwork on them, so couldn't fly them!
There is quite the history in war of captured weapons being used against the previous owners. The Germans in WW1 were not really big on making their own tanks but did capture and use a substantial number of enemy ones - they called these Beutepanzer (loot tanks). In WW2 a lot of their early tanks were French and Czech.
I bet the nasty old Huns didn't let paperwork get in the way!
Czech tanks were, allegedly, one of the reasons Hitler wanted the Sudentenland.
The Skoda armament works were one of the best in Europe - way more than just a few tanks.
And what the Communist Govt did to the cars post-war bordered on the criminal. Cars today, although part Volkswagen now, are excellent.
The Royal Navy was ordering armour plate from Skoda - mostly medium thickness for aircraft carriers and cruisers. This was as rearmament ramped up - armour plate making capacity was slow and expensive.
Heavy plate was prioritised to U.K. factories, since a secret process had been discovered that made U.K. plates, over 9” thick, 20-25% better than most other countries armour plate*.
The last shipment was hours before the outbreak of WWII. Shipped through the German railway system IIRC.
*Process now lost. It was highly secret. And when demand for thick armour plate ended, the file was eventually lost.
On the subject of low alcohol beers etc. can I mention my "life hack" that has me ridiculed and mocked, but it's nevertheless a good idea: use the zero alcohol beer as a substitute for lemondade in a shandy. Half a glass of proper beer, topped up with the zero alcohol stuff. The end product still tastes like beer, but with a lower alcohol content, and not sickly sweet either. However, the beer purists will denounce you, youngsters will talk mockingly of "grand-dad's special cocktail" and your spouse will still think that you are drinking too much. I assure you, it's worth trying.
Mixing bottled and draught beer used to be a thing, partly because cask beer was often poor quality but bottled beer expensive. So mixing the two gave you a reasonable cost/quality ratio.
When I moved to London 30 years ago, some of the old soaks in Youngs pubs would still drink Ram Spesh, which was half a pint of Special in a pint glass, topped up with a bottle of Ram Rod.
There used to be a drink in the North East called a Boilermaker - half a pint of Newcastle Exhibition( aka "Ex") in a pint glass, topped up with half a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale (aka "Bottle of Dog").
As you still had the rest of the Brown, you would be obliged to have a second.
Although Broon Dog was always served with a half pint glass, so you could always request one of those.
I was at University in Newcastle in the '80s and never heard of a Boilermaker, but then I used to drink McEwan's 80/- or Bass or Strongarm in certain pubs. And Old Peculier in the Mitre (latterly the set for Byker Grove). And Cask Ex when they brought out the cask version. Oh and Samsom or Fed Special (which was far from special but sometimes the only cask beer available). If there was no real ale you could often get Theakston or Ruddles in funny wide-mouthed bottles with ring pulls. That might just have been the University bars though.
I was told they weren't allowed to sell Snakebite due to local licensing rules, but that might just have been the University bars protecting themselves from copious amounts of projectile vomiting. I did try it once, it seemed the lager and cider flavours cancelled each other out you got something tasteless that got you pissed, great for people who don't actually like the taste of alcoholic beverages.
Used to go to the Beer Festival when it was still at the Guildhall. On a less positive note I still remember the worst beers I have ever drunk* which were Drybioroughs Heavy and Lorimers Best Scotch.
* other than beers with a fault, had an Italian IPA last week that smelled of wet dog and I'm quite prepared to believe tasted of one too
If you want to get students who don't like the taste of alcohol pissed -- which you shouldn't and is immoral -- then caipiroska is deadly. Vodka, sugar, lemon juice, ice. It's cold, sweet and tart, and you do not notice how alcoholic it is.
That Korean “beer” called “soju” is by far the worst. Tastes barely alcoholic. Like about 2%
So you guzzle gallons and then you realise it’s more like 20% and the next day you want to die
Honestly. It’s fucking dangerous
That's not beer (which is called maekju). They also mix soju with beer - somaek - which is more insidious still.
He looks out of control in the clip. The car clearly has gone down a road that is temporarily closed in that direction, but he literally rams his bike in front of it.
That's an edited video missing out what went before - that's the driver's 2nd attempt to go through the "closed road" against the No Entry sign against a fairly significant flow of traffic, with pauses. There is an even shorter one, which was featured in newspapers, facebook groups etc.
(For me, it was a mistake for him to try and stop the vehicle the second time, as the driver was clearly quite reckless, even though the driver was committing the offence for the second time. I'm also not convinced by his decision stop him the first time.)
The Met are unlikely to enforce on this, as they have stepped back from enforcing "ignoring keep left sign" type offences. That was one reason why Mikey stopped doing Gandalf Corner, and now does mainly phone users. To do with decriminalised offences, and policing priorities aiui.
The Fiat driver was a naughty boy but it still looks like Cycling Mikey put the bike in his path.
I don't think so, look at the slomo from 4:10. It looks like he lets go of the bike and pulls himself back to avoid being hit himself, possibly then attempting to grab the bicycle seat to stop it as he realises what's happening. There's certainly no sign of him pushing the bike onto the car.
Given the basket on the back, there's no way he stepped off the back and managed to stay upright.
He wasn't riding the bike.
Agreed. He made sure it was the bike that was hit rather than himself.
The drivers are dicks, but so is he.
He's a 'dick' because he didn't get hit himself?
He's trying to stop drivers committing offences, nothing wrong with that, and good luck to him. Not how I would choose to spend my time, but he has his reasons. I find him pretty courageous.
Apparently the country is going to the dogs because of an epidemic of petty lawbreaking, but when someone, like Cycling Mikey, is courageous enough to try to do something about it, they are labelled a dick. Some people need to take a very close look at themselves.
Just the other day, people were queuing up here to say that no-one likes snitches.
He looks out of control in the clip. The car clearly has gone down a road that is temporarily closed in that direction, but he literally rams his bike in front of it.
That's an edited video missing out what went before - that's the driver's 2nd attempt to go through the "closed road" against the No Entry sign against a fairly significant flow of traffic, with pauses. There is an even shorter one, which was featured in newspapers, facebook groups etc.
(For me, it was a mistake for him to try and stop the vehicle the second time, as the driver was clearly quite reckless, even though the driver was committing the offence for the second time. I'm also not convinced by his decision stop him the first time.)
The Met are unlikely to enforce on this, as they have stepped back from enforcing "ignoring keep left sign" type offences. That was one reason why Mikey stopped doing Gandalf Corner, and now does mainly phone users. To do with decriminalised offences, and policing priorities aiui.
The Fiat driver was a naughty boy but it still looks like Cycling Mikey put the bike in his path.
I don't think so, look at the slomo from 4:10. It looks like he lets go of the bike and pulls himself back to avoid being hit himself, possibly then attempting to grab the bicycle seat to stop it as he realises what's happening. There's certainly no sign of him pushing the bike onto the car.
Given the basket on the back, there's no way he stepped off the back and managed to stay upright.
He wasn't riding the bike.
Agreed. He made sure it was the bike that was hit rather than himself.
The drivers are dicks, but so is he.
He's a 'dick' because he didn't get hit himself?
He's trying to stop drivers committing offences, nothing wrong with that, and good luck to him. Not how I would choose to spend my time, but he has his reasons. I find him pretty courageous.
Apparently the country is going to the dogs because of an epidemic of petty lawbreaking, but when someone, like Cycling Mikey, is courageous enough to try to do something about it, they are labelled a dick. Some people need to take a very close look at themselves.
By all means take photos, send them to plod. It's a bit shop your neighbour (which we know the UK took to over COVID) but fine.
Ramming your bike into an oncoming car is none of those things.
No, it isn’t, and he clearly does that. The driver would not have been able to stop even if he wanted to and why would you when some loon is attacking your car with a bike.
He is all about the engagement for his YouTube channel which has over 100,000 subscribes but viewer numbers are down do, I guess, ever more inventive ways of driving traffic are needed.
He looks out of control in the clip. The car clearly has gone down a road that is temporarily closed in that direction, but he literally rams his bike in front of it.
That's an edited video missing out what went before - that's the driver's 2nd attempt to go through the "closed road" against the No Entry sign against a fairly significant flow of traffic, with pauses. There is an even shorter one, which was featured in newspapers, facebook groups etc.
(For me, it was a mistake for him to try and stop the vehicle the second time, as the driver was clearly quite reckless, even though the driver was committing the offence for the second time. I'm also not convinced by his decision stop him the first time.)
The Met are unlikely to enforce on this, as they have stepped back from enforcing "ignoring keep left sign" type offences. That was one reason why Mikey stopped doing Gandalf Corner, and now does mainly phone users. To do with decriminalised offences, and policing priorities aiui.
The Fiat driver was a naughty boy but it still looks like Cycling Mikey put the bike in his path.
I don't think so, look at the slomo from 4:10. It looks like he lets go of the bike and pulls himself back to avoid being hit himself, possibly then attempting to grab the bicycle seat to stop it as he realises what's happening. There's certainly no sign of him pushing the bike onto the car.
Given the basket on the back, there's no way he stepped off the back and managed to stay upright.
He wasn't riding the bike.
Agreed. He made sure it was the bike that was hit rather than himself.
The drivers are dicks, but so is he.
He's a 'dick' because he didn't get hit himself?
He's trying to stop drivers committing offences, nothing wrong with that, and good luck to him. Not how I would choose to spend my time, but he has his reasons. I find him pretty courageous.
Apparently the country is going to the dogs because of an epidemic of petty lawbreaking, but when someone, like Cycling Mikey, is courageous enough to try to do something about it, they are labelled a dick. Some people need to take a very close look at themselves.
Film it, send the number plate to the dvla. Job done.
Local forces have web portals where you can upload videos of incidents and they will take action if needed. I have only done it once, the person ended up with a NIP. I believe they got a safety course from it.
There is even speculation this Mikey knob has been banned from submitting reports to plod.
The time has come for tough but brave decisions, given the abyss that yawns before us
Yes. I’m going to paint my entire living room in Little Greene’s Hale Navy
I assume that is a shade - and not an armada of small boats in homage to the hale and hearty asylum seekers arriving in Kent?
(A colour that strong works better as a single wall, IMHO.)
I’m going for the whole room. Fuck it
It’s south facing with two enormous floor ceiling sash windows
The light will flood in by day then it will become a moody blue thinkspace at night
I’m in “late middle age”. I’m not going down without a fight. I want drama! ENTIRELY BLUE ROOMS
For goodness sake how long does it take to decorate a one bedroom flat. You could have had it done three times over by now. Got this feeling the decorators saw you coming. I hate to ask how much you are paying.
He looks out of control in the clip. The car clearly has gone down a road that is temporarily closed in that direction, but he literally rams his bike in front of it.
That's an edited video missing out what went before - that's the driver's 2nd attempt to go through the "closed road" against the No Entry sign against a fairly significant flow of traffic, with pauses. There is an even shorter one, which was featured in newspapers, facebook groups etc.
(For me, it was a mistake for him to try and stop the vehicle the second time, as the driver was clearly quite reckless, even though the driver was committing the offence for the second time. I'm also not convinced by his decision stop him the first time.)
The Met are unlikely to enforce on this, as they have stepped back from enforcing "ignoring keep left sign" type offences. That was one reason why Mikey stopped doing Gandalf Corner, and now does mainly phone users. To do with decriminalised offences, and policing priorities aiui.
The Fiat driver was a naughty boy but it still looks like Cycling Mikey put the bike in his path.
I don't think so, look at the slomo from 4:10. It looks like he lets go of the bike and pulls himself back to avoid being hit himself, possibly then attempting to grab the bicycle seat to stop it as he realises what's happening. There's certainly no sign of him pushing the bike onto the car.
Given the basket on the back, there's no way he stepped off the back and managed to stay upright.
He wasn't riding the bike.
Agreed. He made sure it was the bike that was hit rather than himself.
The drivers are dicks, but so is he.
He's a 'dick' because he didn't get hit himself?
He's trying to stop drivers committing offences, nothing wrong with that, and good luck to him. Not how I would choose to spend my time, but he has his reasons. I find him pretty courageous.
Apparently the country is going to the dogs because of an epidemic of petty lawbreaking, but when someone, like Cycling Mikey, is courageous enough to try to do something about it, they are labelled a dick. Some people need to take a very close look at themselves.
By all means take photos, send them to plod. It's a bit shop your neighbour (which we know the UK took to over COVID) but fine.
Ramming your bike into an oncoming car is none of those things.
No, it isn’t, and he clearly does that. The driver would not have been able to stop even if he wanted to and why would you when some loon is attacking your car with a bike.
He is all about the engagement for his YouTube channel which has over 100,000 subscribes but viewer numbers are down do, I guess, ever more inventive ways of driving traffic are needed.
You old cynic....YouTubers never do things for clicks / views....
On the subject of low alcohol beers etc. can I mention my "life hack" that has me ridiculed and mocked, but it's nevertheless a good idea: use the zero alcohol beer as a substitute for lemondade in a shandy. Half a glass of proper beer, topped up with the zero alcohol stuff. The end product still tastes like beer, but with a lower alcohol content, and not sickly sweet either. However, the beer purists will denounce you, youngsters will talk mockingly of "grand-dad's special cocktail" and your spouse will still think that you are drinking too much. I assure you, it's worth trying.
Mixing bottled and draught beer used to be a thing, partly because cask beer was often poor quality but bottled beer expensive. So mixing the two gave you a reasonable cost/quality ratio.
When I moved to London 30 years ago, some of the old soaks in Youngs pubs would still drink Ram Spesh, which was half a pint of Special in a pint glass, topped up with a bottle of Ram Rod.
There used to be a drink in the North East called a Boilermaker - half a pint of Newcastle Exhibition( aka "Ex") in a pint glass, topped up with half a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale (aka "Bottle of Dog").
As you still had the rest of the Brown, you would be obliged to have a second.
Although Broon Dog was always served with a half pint glass, so you could always request one of those.
I was at University in Newcastle in the '80s and never heard of a Boilermaker, but then I used to drink McEwan's 80/- or Bass or Strongarm in certain pubs. And Old Peculier in the Mitre (latterly the set for Byker Grove). And Cask Ex when they brought out the cask version. Oh and Samsom or Fed Special (which was far from special but sometimes the only cask beer available). If there was no real ale you could often get Theakston or Ruddles in funny wide-mouthed bottles with ring pulls. That might just have been the University bars though.
I was told they weren't allowed to sell Snakebite due to local licensing rules, but that might just have been the University bars protecting themselves from copious amounts of projectile vomiting. I did try it once, it seemed the lager and cider flavours cancelled each other out you got something tasteless that got you pissed, great for people who don't actually like the taste of alcoholic beverages.
Used to go to the Beer Festival when it was still at the Guildhall. On a less positive note I still remember the worst beers I have ever drunk* which were Drybioroughs Heavy and Lorimers Best Scotch.
* other than beers with a fault, had an Italian IPA last week that smelled of wet dog and I'm quite prepared to believe tasted of one too
If you want to get students who don't like the taste of alcohol pissed -- which you shouldn't and is immoral -- then caipiroska is deadly. Vodka, sugar, lemon juice, ice. It's cold, sweet and tart, and you do not notice how alcoholic it is.
That Korean “beer” called “soju” is by far the worst. Tastes barely alcoholic. Like about 2%
So you guzzle gallons and then you realise it’s more like 20% and the next day you want to die
Honestly. It’s fucking dangerous
That's not beer (which is called maekju). They also mix soju with beer - somaek - which is more insidious still.
The time has come for tough but brave decisions, given the abyss that yawns before us
Yes. I’m going to paint my entire living room in Little Greene’s Hale Navy
I assume that is a shade - and not an armada of small boats in homage to the hale and hearty asylum seekers arriving in Kent?
(A colour that strong works better as a single wall, IMHO.)
I’m going for the whole room. Fuck it
It’s south facing with two enormous floor ceiling sash windows
The light will flood in by day then it will become a moody blue thinkspace at night
I’m in “late middle age”. I’m not going down without a fight. I want drama! ENTIRELY BLUE ROOMS
For goodness sake how long does it take to decorate a one bedroom flat. You could have had it done three times over by now. Got this feeling the decorators saw you coming. I hate to ask how much you are paying.
£17,000. Why?
Including having three of the largest rooms replastered, I've just had a 3 bed house done for £15,000, although it would have been more if I hadn't done the actual painting myself.
The time has come for tough but brave decisions, given the abyss that yawns before us
Yes. I’m going to paint my entire living room in Little Greene’s Hale Navy
I assume that is a shade - and not an armada of small boats in homage to the hale and hearty asylum seekers arriving in Kent?
(A colour that strong works better as a single wall, IMHO.)
I’m going for the whole room. Fuck it
It’s south facing with two enormous floor ceiling sash windows
The light will flood in by day then it will become a moody blue thinkspace at night
I’m in “late middle age”. I’m not going down without a fight. I want drama! ENTIRELY BLUE ROOMS
For goodness sake how long does it take to decorate a one bedroom flat. You could have had it done three times over by now. Got this feeling the decorators saw you coming. I hate to ask how much you are paying.
He looks out of control in the clip. The car clearly has gone down a road that is temporarily closed in that direction, but he literally rams his bike in front of it.
That's an edited video missing out what went before - that's the driver's 2nd attempt to go through the "closed road" against the No Entry sign against a fairly significant flow of traffic, with pauses. There is an even shorter one, which was featured in newspapers, facebook groups etc.
(For me, it was a mistake for him to try and stop the vehicle the second time, as the driver was clearly quite reckless, even though the driver was committing the offence for the second time. I'm also not convinced by his decision stop him the first time.)
The Met are unlikely to enforce on this, as they have stepped back from enforcing "ignoring keep left sign" type offences. That was one reason why Mikey stopped doing Gandalf Corner, and now does mainly phone users. To do with decriminalised offences, and policing priorities aiui.
The Fiat driver was a naughty boy but it still looks like Cycling Mikey put the bike in his path.
I don't think so, look at the slomo from 4:10. It looks like he lets go of the bike and pulls himself back to avoid being hit himself, possibly then attempting to grab the bicycle seat to stop it as he realises what's happening. There's certainly no sign of him pushing the bike onto the car.
Given the basket on the back, there's no way he stepped off the back and managed to stay upright.
He wasn't riding the bike.
Agreed. He made sure it was the bike that was hit rather than himself.
The drivers are dicks, but so is he.
He's a 'dick' because he didn't get hit himself?
He's trying to stop drivers committing offences, nothing wrong with that, and good luck to him. Not how I would choose to spend my time, but he has his reasons. I find him pretty courageous.
Apparently the country is going to the dogs because of an epidemic of petty lawbreaking, but when someone, like Cycling Mikey, is courageous enough to try to do something about it, they are labelled a dick. Some people need to take a very close look at themselves.
By all means take photos, send them to plod. It's a bit shop your neighbour (which we know the UK took to over COVID) but fine.
Ramming your bike into an oncoming car is none of those things.
No, it isn’t, and he clearly does that. The driver would not have been able to stop even if he wanted to and why would you when some loon is attacking your car with a bike.
He is all about the engagement for his YouTube channel which has over 100,000 subscribes but viewer numbers are down do, I guess, ever more inventive ways of driving traffic are needed.
He's an odd character but I think the context is important - his dad was killed by a drunk driver when he was a teenager, so he's gone a bit Bruce Wayne.
He looks out of control in the clip. The car clearly has gone down a road that is temporarily closed in that direction, but he literally rams his bike in front of it.
That's an edited video missing out what went before - that's the driver's 2nd attempt to go through the "closed road" against the No Entry sign against a fairly significant flow of traffic, with pauses. There is an even shorter one, which was featured in newspapers, facebook groups etc.
(For me, it was a mistake for him to try and stop the vehicle the second time, as the driver was clearly quite reckless, even though the driver was committing the offence for the second time. I'm also not convinced by his decision stop him the first time.)
The Met are unlikely to enforce on this, as they have stepped back from enforcing "ignoring keep left sign" type offences. That was one reason why Mikey stopped doing Gandalf Corner, and now does mainly phone users. To do with decriminalised offences, and policing priorities aiui.
The Fiat driver was a naughty boy but it still looks like Cycling Mikey put the bike in his path.
I don't think so, look at the slomo from 4:10. It looks like he lets go of the bike and pulls himself back to avoid being hit himself, possibly then attempting to grab the bicycle seat to stop it as he realises what's happening. There's certainly no sign of him pushing the bike onto the car.
Given the basket on the back, there's no way he stepped off the back and managed to stay upright.
He wasn't riding the bike.
Agreed. He made sure it was the bike that was hit rather than himself.
The drivers are dicks, but so is he.
He's a 'dick' because he didn't get hit himself?
He's trying to stop drivers committing offences, nothing wrong with that, and good luck to him. Not how I would choose to spend my time, but he has his reasons. I find him pretty courageous.
Apparently the country is going to the dogs because of an epidemic of petty lawbreaking, but when someone, like Cycling Mikey, is courageous enough to try to do something about it, they are labelled a dick. Some people need to take a very close look at themselves.
By all means take photos, send them to plod. It's a bit shop your neighbour (which we know the UK took to over COVID) but fine.
Ramming your bike into an oncoming car is none of those things.
If the car is oncoming - and on a one way street - then pretty much it's the car making the collision happen. FWIW, I whatsapped my wife (retired traffic police sergeant, now coroner's officer - a link to this video and conversation, and she's just sent me a message laughing her head off at everyone trying to make it the cyclist's fault. It's amazing how people will twist logic, and evidence, into pretzels to try and make their preferred target the offending party.
The car driver is clearly in the wrong. But the cyclist failed to make proper observation. You should not assume no-one is coming the wrong way down a one-way street, particularly where it is a temporary closure. For one thing, some cyclists assume one-way streets don't apply to them so you are quite likely to find a cyclist approaching from the wrong direction. There could also be pedestrians in the road.
Someone posted a video on a local FB group of a car turning right out of a shop on a main road and failing to give way to traffic in the lane it wanted to join. The guy with the dash cam brakes quite late, very close to the car, and only uses his horn at that point. I agreed the other car was in the wrong but asked him why he tried to hit it. He said he didn't see it because it was obscured by a car turning left. Well, that was true, but we clearly see on the dash cam the car pulling out and preparing to turn right, the other driver should have had plenty of time to slow down and use his horn to warn the other driver.
The time has come for tough but brave decisions, given the abyss that yawns before us
Yes. I’m going to paint my entire living room in Little Greene’s Hale Navy
I assume that is a shade - and not an armada of small boats in homage to the hale and hearty asylum seekers arriving in Kent?
(A colour that strong works better as a single wall, IMHO.)
I’m going for the whole room. Fuck it
It’s south facing with two enormous floor ceiling sash windows
The light will flood in by day then it will become a moody blue thinkspace at night
I’m in “late middle age”. I’m not going down without a fight. I want drama! ENTIRELY BLUE ROOMS
For goodness sake how long does it take to decorate a one bedroom flat. You could have had it done three times over by now. Got this feeling the decorators saw you coming. I hate to ask how much you are paying.
£17,000. Why?
I would have done that for you for fifteen grand. Or if you drove a really hard bargain 500 quid.
The time has come for tough but brave decisions, given the abyss that yawns before us
Yes. I’m going to paint my entire living room in Little Greene’s Hale Navy
I assume that is a shade - and not an armada of small boats in homage to the hale and hearty asylum seekers arriving in Kent?
(A colour that strong works better as a single wall, IMHO.)
I’m going for the whole room. Fuck it
It’s south facing with two enormous floor ceiling sash windows
The light will flood in by day then it will become a moody blue thinkspace at night
I’m in “late middle age”. I’m not going down without a fight. I want drama! ENTIRELY BLUE ROOMS
For goodness sake how long does it take to decorate a one bedroom flat. You could have had it done three times over by now. Got this feeling the decorators saw you coming. I hate to ask how much you are paying.
£17,000. Why?
Well the question was rhetorical. I wasn't expecting you to answer. But WOW just wow. That is madness.
The time has come for tough but brave decisions, given the abyss that yawns before us
Yes. I’m going to paint my entire living room in Little Greene’s Hale Navy
I assume that is a shade - and not an armada of small boats in homage to the hale and hearty asylum seekers arriving in Kent?
(A colour that strong works better as a single wall, IMHO.)
I’m going for the whole room. Fuck it
It’s south facing with two enormous floor ceiling sash windows
The light will flood in by day then it will become a moody blue thinkspace at night
I’m in “late middle age”. I’m not going down without a fight. I want drama! ENTIRELY BLUE ROOMS
For goodness sake how long does it take to decorate a one bedroom flat. You could have had it done three times over by now. Got this feeling the decorators saw you coming. I hate to ask how much you are paying.
£17,000. Why?
Well the question was rhetorical. I wasn't expecting you to answer. But WOW just wow. That is madness.
The time has come for tough but brave decisions, given the abyss that yawns before us
Yes. I’m going to paint my entire living room in Little Greene’s Hale Navy
I assume that is a shade - and not an armada of small boats in homage to the hale and hearty asylum seekers arriving in Kent?
(A colour that strong works better as a single wall, IMHO.)
I’m going for the whole room. Fuck it
It’s south facing with two enormous floor ceiling sash windows
The light will flood in by day then it will become a moody blue thinkspace at night
I’m in “late middle age”. I’m not going down without a fight. I want drama! ENTIRELY BLUE ROOMS
For goodness sake how long does it take to decorate a one bedroom flat. You could have had it done three times over by now. Got this feeling the decorators saw you coming. I hate to ask how much you are paying.
£17,000. Why?
Well the question was rhetorical. I wasn't expecting you to answer. But WOW just wow. That is madness.
Leon must be using the same contractors as the cabinet office...
As part of the ongoing refurbishment works on the 4th Floor of 70 Whitehall, the Cabinet Office has submitted an application for the installation of a ceiling within the southern lift shaft. The total budget for this work, including all fees and VAT, is £280k.
Leon must be using the same contractors as the cabinet office...
As part of the ongoing refurbishment works on the 4th Floor of 70 Whitehall, the Cabinet Office has submitted an application for the installation of a ceiling within the southern lift shaft. The total budget for this work, including all fees and VAT, is £280k.
Couldn't they get that Brownlow chap to chip in? He's redecorated at least one public owned space for the Government I believe.
Mind you if the Conservatives were still in Government they could do it for the cost of materials alone. I hear that Jenrick chap is handy with a no 3 Harris brush
The time has come for tough but brave decisions, given the abyss that yawns before us
Yes. I’m going to paint my entire living room in Little Greene’s Hale Navy
I assume that is a shade - and not an armada of small boats in homage to the hale and hearty asylum seekers arriving in Kent?
(A colour that strong works better as a single wall, IMHO.)
I’m going for the whole room. Fuck it
It’s south facing with two enormous floor ceiling sash windows
The light will flood in by day then it will become a moody blue thinkspace at night
I’m in “late middle age”. I’m not going down without a fight. I want drama! ENTIRELY BLUE ROOMS
For goodness sake how long does it take to decorate a one bedroom flat. You could have had it done three times over by now. Got this feeling the decorators saw you coming. I hate to ask how much you are paying.
He looks out of control in the clip. The car clearly has gone down a road that is temporarily closed in that direction, but he literally rams his bike in front of it.
That's an edited video missing out what went before - that's the driver's 2nd attempt to go through the "closed road" against the No Entry sign against a fairly significant flow of traffic, with pauses. There is an even shorter one, which was featured in newspapers, facebook groups etc.
(For me, it was a mistake for him to try and stop the vehicle the second time, as the driver was clearly quite reckless, even though the driver was committing the offence for the second time. I'm also not convinced by his decision stop him the first time.)
The Met are unlikely to enforce on this, as they have stepped back from enforcing "ignoring keep left sign" type offences. That was one reason why Mikey stopped doing Gandalf Corner, and now does mainly phone users. To do with decriminalised offences, and policing priorities aiui.
The Fiat driver was a naughty boy but it still looks like Cycling Mikey put the bike in his path.
I don't think so, look at the slomo from 4:10. It looks like he lets go of the bike and pulls himself back to avoid being hit himself, possibly then attempting to grab the bicycle seat to stop it as he realises what's happening. There's certainly no sign of him pushing the bike onto the car.
Given the basket on the back, there's no way he stepped off the back and managed to stay upright.
He wasn't riding the bike.
Agreed. He made sure it was the bike that was hit rather than himself.
The drivers are dicks, but so is he.
He's a 'dick' because he didn't get hit himself?
He's trying to stop drivers committing offences, nothing wrong with that, and good luck to him. Not how I would choose to spend my time, but he has his reasons. I find him pretty courageous.
Apparently the country is going to the dogs because of an epidemic of petty lawbreaking, but when someone, like Cycling Mikey, is courageous enough to try to do something about it, they are labelled a dick. Some people need to take a very close look at themselves.
By all means take photos, send them to plod. It's a bit shop your neighbour (which we know the UK took to over COVID) but fine.
Ramming your bike into an oncoming car is none of those things.
He didn't ram his bike into the car. He pushed his bike in front of the car in an effort to prevent the driver from breaking the law, and the driver, rather than stopping, drove into his bike and continued driving.
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Heavy plate was prioritised to U.K. factories, since a secret process had been discovered that made U.K. plates, over 9” thick, 20-25% better than most other countries armour plate*.
The last shipment was hours before the outbreak of WWII. Shipped through the German railway system IIRC.
*Process now lost. It was highly secret. And when demand for thick armour plate ended, the file was eventually lost.
They also mix soju with beer - somaek - which is more insidious still.
He is all about the engagement for his YouTube channel which has over 100,000 subscribes but viewer numbers are down do, I guess, ever more inventive ways of driving traffic are needed.
There is even speculation this Mikey knob has been banned from submitting reports to plod.
Korea is a deeply strange place
Someone posted a video on a local FB group of a car turning right out of a shop on a main road and failing to give way to traffic in the lane it wanted to join. The guy with the dash cam brakes quite late, very close to the car, and only uses his horn at that point. I agreed the other car was in the wrong but asked him why he tried to hit it. He said he didn't see it because it was obscured by a car turning left. Well, that was true, but we clearly see on the dash cam the car pulling out and preparing to turn right, the other driver should have had plenty of time to slow down and use his horn to warn the other driver.
https://x.com/raffytima/status/1954869527080042791
Who is doing it for you? Lulu Lytle
I heard Ghislaine tell inmate she had dirt on Trump: Sex trafficker's ex-cellmate gives extraordinary glimpse into Maxwell's life behind bars...
https://x.com/DailyMail/status/1953931797122740461
As part of the ongoing refurbishment works on the 4th Floor of 70 Whitehall, the Cabinet Office has submitted an application for the installation of a ceiling within the southern lift shaft. The total budget for this work, including all fees and VAT, is £280k.
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-06-26/63006
NEW THREAD
Mind you if the Conservatives were still in Government they could do it for the cost of materials alone. I hear that Jenrick chap is handy with a no 3 Harris brush
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/11/female-prison-officer-admits-inappropriate-relationship/
Why are the prison service still employing 23-year-old women to work in men’s prisons? The problems it creates should be blindingly obvious.