Single File Please advocates for Compulsory Single File by cyclists when they ride in groups.
15/01/2024
Yet more evidence of why so many citizens want the relevant legislation to change regarding cycling two abreast.
They claim they do it because it's "quicker to pass" but they're lying. Not only to us, but to themselves too. That claim makes no allowance for oncoming traffic. In reality, cyclists ride two abreast so they can chat. Why should the entire road system have to accommodate cyclists who want to engage in a chat?
Credit: Darren Gilligan
11/09/2023
More evidence from the UK Dept of Transport whichs shows how "weather dependant" cycling in England actually is.
Every winter cycling participation falls dramatically until the next spring. As a result, bike lanes in London are often empty for at least 4-5 months a year.
Many cycling advocates believe cycling can solve London's traffic problems but clearly, bike lanes can't solve the weather.
14/01/2023
Seriously? Some cyclists are now claiming you're a racist if you criticise their behaviour.
What a crazy world we're living in...
14/01/2023
Sums it up....
14/01/2023
The cycing mafia is pi**ed off again.
Par for the course, really.
13/01/2023
MELBOURNE,VIC:- Recreational cyclist Ethan Cosgrove, 38, says cyclists are victims of discrimination and prejudice after being sacked from his job as a graphic designer last Friday, adding his former employers refused to respond to his demands for a "state of the art" washroom and locker facility.
Throughout a 10-minute conversation in the presence of his lawyers, Cosgrove, who took up cycling several months ago and rides an average of 4 times per week to work, repeatedly drew comparisons between cyclists and black people who die in police custody, saying "Everybody knows black lives matter, but bike lives matter too. That's what people don't understand."
Cosgrove says his needs for "end of trip facilities" were ignored by his employers, and they created the hygiene problem, not him.
"Sure, they had bathrooms, but that wasn't the issue," says the embittered Cosgrove. "Everybody knows cyclists sweat, it's Australia for crying out loud - it's a hot country. What they refused to consider were my needs. All cyclists have needs, cyclists need good mental health, we need good self esteem. Cycling gives us that.
"My employers point blank refused to spend a cent on my needs. I even got them a quote. All it would have taken to build the shower and locker facilities I needed was a piddly $400,000. It was pittance. But no.... I found out the hard way my employers are bigots. They're anti-cycling bigots and they're going to pay for it. We're going to file a discrimination case as a result."
Nathen Mortlock, a spokesperson for Henderson-Williams Lawyers, a law firm which normally specialises in personal injury claims for cyclists, says anti-cycling discrimination is the fastest growing area of litigation currently before the Courts.
"What we're finding is cyclists are consistently being overlooked for promotions, they're consistently being denied wage rises, they're consistently being knocked back on job interviews because they like to put on lycra and ride a bike," says Mr Mortlock. "Would we allow discrimination towards a guy in the workplace if that guy liked to put on a dress in private? No!"
"This is a blatant example of anti-cyclist discrimination in the workplace. It's appalling an employer refused a legitimate request to spend $400,000 on a shower and locker facility simply because that request came from a cyclist. This is exactly how the slippery slope starts. This is how one segment of society ends up feeling alienated and disenfranchised from the rest of society."
Cosgrove's former employers have released a statement which says, prior to his termination, they explained to Cosgrove they're a small boutique graphic design firm and they simply didn't have the budget to spend on a $400,000 shower facility.
The statement also claims they gave Cosgrove 6 letters of warning about his personal hygiene in the work place and they even offered to pay for Ubers so that he could travel to and from work for free in air conditioned comfort each day.
13/01/2023
Sorry Dear Cyclists, but literally NOBODY believes you. Except you.
13/01/2023
ADELAIDE, SA:- "The problem has never been so bad," says Peter Signorini. a well known cycling advocate who believes motor cars should be banned from the road system.
"We call these sorts of incidents 'punishment passes'. Drivers do this to punish cyclists for committing the mere sin of being on the road. As you can see, this driver deliberately tried to come as close as possible to this cyclist and it's simply NOT on.
"The only way for this problem to come to an end is for police to get serious about enforcing the Safe Passing Laws.
"What we want is for police to follow cyclists everywhere they ride. We're calling for thousands of police patrol cars to be added to the road system. We want police to follow every training group, every morning, to ensure cyclists can continue to play the victim without having to make any changes to their own behaviour."
12/01/2023
Tragic news.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Cameron's family.
12/01/2023
Hands up if you've ever been cornered by a guy just like this?
Wow... that's a LOT of hands!
12/01/2023
Perhaps the most wasteful way to spend your day is to argue with a cycling advocate about, well, anything basically.
26/10/2021
A well known cycling lobbyist in London who argues with motorists in the middle of the street to create content for his YouTube channel has messed with the wrong guy.
In August of 2021, a well known London cycling lobbyist who films motorists committing minor traffic violations and then confronts them about their "supposed bad driving", picked the wrong guy. The incident eventually went pear shaped with the cyclist holding a shattered iPhone in his hands. However...
08/09/2021
Hav a nice day!
29/08/2021
It never gets old watching cycling crusaders get their knickers in a knot when someone lampoons them.
They're all so terribly earnest they instantly reach for the "hate speech card."
24/08/2021
Lies, Damned Lies, and Fudged Statistics - the fight over London's streets.
In their efforts to justify the ongoing existence of London's unpopular Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, it seems fudged statistics have become the latest weapon of choice.
In the battle to justify London's unpopular Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, fudged statistics have become the new weapon of choice.
16/08/2021
Latest data from the UK Department for Transport confirms the COVID-19 Cycling Boom has completely evaporated.
08/08/2021
Stop Killing Cyclists, a British cycling lobby group, says an incident involving a fire truck cutting off a cyclist was a blatant attempt at murder. However, Matt Wallace says it’s abundantly clear this cyclist wasn’t looking where he was going.
Further, in their efforts to pursue yet more and more public funding, Matt reckons cyclists have reached a point where they are now completely incapable of even the slightest hint of common sense and self responsibility.
A truly amazing video has gone viral which features an incident between a cyclist and a London fire truck. Depending your point of view (which, in reality, is determined by whether you’re a cyclist or not) the video shows a cyclist almost being killed by a driver in a fire truck who didn’t care ...
31/07/2021
The Cynical Propaganda Loop Being Funded By The Mayor Of London
The Mayor's office tells Transport for London what they want to see in the newspapers. Transport for London funds Dr Rachel Ward at The University of Westminster to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds to produce the "independant research" being sought by The Mayor's Office.
The Guardian Newspaper then prints her findings under the title of "peer reviewed" independant research. And finally, The Mayor's Office then starts running links to the new article in The Guardian.
26/07/2021
Some excellent research by Winfield & Hayes regarding which classes of road user spend the most money in shops.
23/07/2021
If you're a cyclist, everything is better in The Netherlands.
Until you start looking at the facts.
17/07/2021
Jeremy Vine. The famous cycling advocate - and his double standards.
Cyclists and their double standards. They say they want MORE cycling infrastructure, but they also want ignore it any time they want.
01/07/2021
Cycle lobby claims are falling like flies - special edition. Why do cycling campaigners almost exclusively focus on cars when Heavy Duty Vehicles create more emissions? Is this really about pollution or is it about running people off the road?
17/06/2021
Seems a reasonable question?
16/06/2021
The pressure builds!
14/06/2021
Cycling advocates are rather fond of claiming obesity is directly linked to car driving. The fallacy being; cyclists want more cycling infrastructure therefore if they claim more people riding bikes will affect national obesity rates, by extension, that will get more tax payer money being spent on cycling infrastructure.
However, the evidence shows the world’s highest rates of obesity are South Pacific Islander nations where car driving has nothing to do with their culture.
The evidence shows the world's highest rates of obesity are South Pacific Islander nations where car driving has nothing to do with cycling.
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Yet more evidence of why so many citizens want the relevant legislation to change regarding cycling two abreast.
They claim they do it because it's "quicker to pass" but they're lying. Not only to us, but to themselves too. That claim makes no allowance for oncoming traffic. In reality, cyclists ride two abreast so they can chat. Why should the entire road system have to accommodate cyclists who want to engage in a chat?
Credit: Darren Gilligan
What a douche this guy with the camera is. By his own admission he was "going for a Personal Best segment time" on Strava, so the whole world had to make way for his personal ego trip.
He endangered a man's wife and then he had the audacity to say she was in the wrong. What a cock head.
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What's your opinion? Would this rider have been safe if these cyclists had been riding single file?
Make no mistake, this incident makes for uncomfortable viewing if you haven't seen it before.
Marshall Neely III was behind the wheel of his black Volvo in July 2017 when he struck cyclist Tyler Noe from behind and sped away. Noe, 24, was two hours into his first bike ride since childhood when he heard a honk, then an engine revving. Moments later, Neely slammed into him, knocking him down hard on the blacktop.
Neely pled guilty to reckless aggravated assault, lying to a federal agent, and obstruction of justice. According to the details of his plea agreement, he served 10 months in jail, followed by three years of supervised release, and he was also ordered to pay Noe $1,200 in restitution.
The answer to our opening question is "who knows for sure?" Many cyclists riding on their own have been hit by drunk drivers, as have motorcyclists who were doing the right thing too.
What this video confirms more than anything else is the Safe Passing Laws don't work. They simply cannot protect a cyclist from a drunk driver, or a distracted driver, or a drug impaired driver.
Over The Edge He Goes
Contrary to popular myth, the single biggest source of hospital grade cycling injuries isn't cars, it's actually other cyclists.
A 17 year long study (released in 2019) by the Australian Institute of Health which examined 160,000 hospital grade injuries to cyclists found 40% of them didn't even happen on the road, and of the 60% which did happen on the road, only 28% involved a car.
Cyclists Being Pulled Over
MELBOURNE, AUS:- Outraged cycling advocates are demanding answers today after Police deliberately targeted bike riders for Identity and address checks during Victoria's COVID-19 lockdown.
"This is appalling. This is a fundamental assault on our constitutional rights," says controversial cycling lobbyist Michael Kater.
"All I can say is goodbye freedom and welcome to our new permanent police state. Melburnians are currently enduring the longest, most draconian restrictions any Western leader has imposed on citizens in the last thousand years.
"It's just so wrong on so many levels to see cyclists being targeted for police ID checks. The whole reason we ride bicycles is so we can't be identified."
However, not everyone agrees with the 60 year old cyclist who regularly posts on social media using fake accounts like James McDonald.
Robert Allison responded to Kater today on Twitter with a simple question, "You haven’t read much history, have you Michael? About time you cyclists faced the same level of accountability that every other road user has to accept."
Video Credit: 7NEWS
Cyclists: Let's not be doing this.
New Bike Riders: Let's not be doing this.
These sorts of incidents follow a pattern, and patterns are what you need to look for to avoid major injury. Don't be listening to cycling advocates who reckon this sort of riding is OK.
It doesn't matter if you're on a bicycle or a motorcycle, when cars are banked up at a stop in heavy traffic, don't go flying past those stopped cars at high speed. Slow down and assume something dangerous is going to happen.
They sound like seagulls!
What's your opinion? If a dedicated bike lane has been set aside for cyclists, are bike riders being rude if they refuse to ride in it?
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Another Cyclist Running A Red
Sent in by one of our readers, this video is a near perfect example of a cyclist in full racing kit simply ignoring road rules which exist for their safety.
While not germane specifically to our calls for Compulsory Single File, this video does serve to illustrate why so many motorists believe cyclists need to be identifiable.
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Cyclists expect perfect behaviour from motorists. Yet all too often they act appallingly themselves.
When it comes to the dysfunctional relationship between bike riders and car drivers, this is the still the best explanation you’ll see....
That pretty much sums up the issue. Granted, both sides have passionate views, however only one side is the majority. On top of that, the road system is a finite resource. No matter where you go in the world, once cities get big enough, once population density gets high enough, every road system becomes a finite resource.
Historically, when people start fighting over finite resources, things usually get ugly. Quite correctly, motorists perceive large groups of cyclists as two wheeled ‘fitness classes’ which are happening in the middle of the road. All too often cyclists aren’t using the road system for purposes of utility, rather, they’re using it for social interaction. Fine, on a Sunday morning perhaps. But every morning of the week? That’s what drives motorists nuts.
Contrary to many claims which are made by the cycling lobby, when cyclists ride in ‘large bunches’ they aren’t actually riding to work. They’re not engaging in ‘active transport’. They are, in effect, double dipping. They’re interfering with someone else’s drive to work, but when they’re finished they go home and shower and then they drive to work themselves.
So why are people so passionate about this issue?
The next graph basically answers that question. As rule of thumb, cycling fatality rates tend to reflect cycling participation rates. It’s possible to see in this graph from Australia how cycling demographics changed between 1999 and 2015. This trend is also similar in the United Kingdom and North America. The number of young people riding bikes, either for sport or recreation, has fallen while the number of middle aged people has soared.
In the graph above, you can see how ‘new blood into the sport’ stopped happening sometime in the last 15 years. Before Year 2000 road cycling was primarily a young man’s sport. Back then, older road cyclists were the exception to the rule. This is why Cycling Australia has reported a 40% drop in race licences in the last 2 years.
In the above above it’s possible to see which age group is now the single biggest demographic riding bicycles. Middle aged riders (aged 40 - 64) are dying the most, both in terms of total cycling fatalities over a 10 year period, as well as ‘no car involved’ fatalities.
The last ten years have seen an explosion of middle aged ‘discoverer cyclists’ showing up for training rides in many first world countries. Their bike skills and their fitness levels are abysmal. But more importantly, they aren’t interested in being fit. Far too many of them simply want to look the part and spend hours in coffee shops.
Compulsory Single File because solves the ‘large messy cycling bunch’ problem. The issue is distraction. Cyclists who are chatting away are distracted road users. That’s why they have so many accidents among themselves. When cyclists can’t chat groups get smaller.
Of course, social cyclists don’t like the concept of Compulsory Single File. In fact, they detest it. Tell a ‘social cyclist’ you think they should ride single file and see how long it takes them to blow a microchip. The reason they hate Compulsory Single File is very simple. They love to chat. They’re prepared to do ANYTHING to protect that.
If you’re a cyclist who loves to ride in large bunches on a regular basis? Try and remember this - metal doesn’t care about your feelings. Stay safe. Ride single file please.
