Slack Randoms: Calling the Police Beacause a Cyclist Didn't Pull Over, Our New Favourite MTBer & More
We use Slack as our workplace communication tool at Pinkbike and we have a #randoms channel which we use to share an assortment of videos and stories from all corners of the cycling world and beyond... We thought a couple of the moments from the past week were too good not to share with a wider audience, so here are some of the highlights.
Moss is our Kind of Mountain Biker
Heck yeah! Moss knows what's up! This heartwarming video shows him enjoying some Squamish trails in the right way. Not worrying about the latest gear or mountain biking fashion trends, Moss is just out there enjoying the ride, counting puddles and spreading the stoke. Congrats on your biggest ride ever Moss!
Follow Moss for more adventures, here.
Calling the Police Because A Cyclist Doesn't Pull Over
From the highs of Moss to the lows of this entitled driver. After being held up on a narrow road by a cyclist, she decides to call the Police. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't get her very far.
A 16 Stair Boneless in London
Kayaking at 100km/h on Snow
Cyclist Throws Poop at Car (NSFW)
Police in Victoria, B.C are searching for a cyclist that threw his own faeces at a car following an altercation.
Following a collision between the driver and the cyclist on Yates and Cook streets, the woman locked herself in the car so the cyclist pulled down his pants, defecated in public and threw his own feces at her car.
“Thankfully, there were a lot of witnesses who intervened because they were fearful the driver would be assaulted,” said Victoria Police Const. Matt Rutherford. “A lot of people took photos and video and we are working on locating the suspect.”
Police are on the lookout for a man approximately 35 years old, five-foot-ten inches tall, with a brown beard. He was last seen travelling southbound on Cook Street on his bike and didn’t appear to be hurt. He fled the scene wearing a brown sweater and blue jeans. The woman was not hurt.
Colby Raha Sends it to Outer Space
Moss is our Kind of Mountain Biker
Heck yeah! Moss knows what's up! This heartwarming video shows him enjoying some Squamish trails in the right way. Not worrying about the latest gear or mountain biking fashion trends, Moss is just out there enjoying the ride, counting puddles and spreading the stoke. Congrats on your biggest ride ever Moss!
Follow Moss for more adventures, here.
Calling the Police Because A Cyclist Doesn't Pull Over
From the highs of Moss to the lows of this entitled driver. After being held up on a narrow road by a cyclist, she decides to call the Police. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't get her very far.
A 16 Stair Boneless in London
 | Slim skies over the big set at St. Paul's Cathedral on a chilly day in London. |
Kayaking at 100km/h on Snow
| Watch in awe as Spanish kayaker Aniol Serrasolses descends more than 25 kilometers by kayak from Chile's snowy Volcano summit in the Araucanía region, through a forest culminating into a lake where he also manages to pull off the world’s first world’s first double kickflip on a kayak! 2020 has been a tough year for professional extreme kayaker Aniol Serrasolses. With competitions cancelled and mobility limitations between territories, the Catalan has taken advantage of this time of sporting hiatus to seek new challenges, explore new routes and find ways to take kayaking to the next level! |
Cyclist Throws Poop at Car (NSFW)
Police in Victoria, B.C are searching for a cyclist that threw his own faeces at a car following an altercation.
Following a collision between the driver and the cyclist on Yates and Cook streets, the woman locked herself in the car so the cyclist pulled down his pants, defecated in public and threw his own feces at her car.
“Thankfully, there were a lot of witnesses who intervened because they were fearful the driver would be assaulted,” said Victoria Police Const. Matt Rutherford. “A lot of people took photos and video and we are working on locating the suspect.”
Police are on the lookout for a man approximately 35 years old, five-foot-ten inches tall, with a brown beard. He was last seen travelling southbound on Cook Street on his bike and didn’t appear to be hurt. He fled the scene wearing a brown sweater and blue jeans. The woman was not hurt.
Colby Raha Sends it to Outer Space
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Americans.......
you accidentally just exposed yourself as a racist and sexist, nice.
Try as you might, you just exposed your bigotry and ignorance. sucks to suck.......bigot
So you continually attack my identity and you try to invalidate what or who I identify as, as an individual, and yet I'm the scum.....
And you assume my ethnicity without even knowing what race I identify as. If you are offended by people identifying as something you don't agree with, then by definition you are being bigoted and intolerant. time to check your privilege.
You keep wading deeper into ignorant bigot waters, keep going.
so you just exposed yourself as a racist. Your igonorance thinking that by identfing as another race you are merely showing your affection. You're emulating something that is not yours to emulate
SMHYFI
In my experience when it comes to aggression against cyclists, nothing beats 60+yr old males, followed shortly by +40yr old males working in construction. plumbers, carpenters, electricians. Women tend to resort to mental violence - she called a cop hoping they will make the cyclist feel miserable, by giving him a ticket, talking down to him. Delusional of course. Males prefer direct physical violence and they are quick to it too. They hit you with a bumper so you end up in a ditch. You choose which works better for you
I always ride far to the side on narrow roads when I hear the car coming, I call it basic human dignity... small move costs nothing and makes me a good amabassador for all cyclists. I can even wave and shout sorry/thank you! while smiling really wide. Just like I do when crossing the street when a car stops and let's me pass. Sticking to your guns and trying to make a statement will only make an angered driver even more angry at general cycling population and one day some miserable bastard will snap and hit an innocent cyclist. That's the way I see it.
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Just straight narrow minded bigotry.
You're digging yourself deeper the more you try to rationalize this.
To your other point, there has been scientific proof that the brain chemistry of a person born Trans differs from that of their Cis born peers. Whereas there are no differences between races other than melitonin content.
Can you show me any research done on people who identify as trans racial, or are you just citing the lack of evidence as your evidence to the contrary? You really defeat your own argument the more you try to support it. Just accept it, you are a bigot, but even if you weren't, you can't think that people can change gender and identify as someone with completely genetic makeup, and NOT think people can do the same for race. You're ignorantly consistent, but rationally inconsistent. Fix it. Be less ignorant. Grow into a more mature person.
As I stated before you can claim whatever identity you want but expext backlash from said racial/cultural groups when you ignore the struggles they deal with everyday that you will never have to deal with. You may deal with struggles from society as a Trans but they are different struggles than that of different cultures/races. If you can't live it you can't fully identify with it and skin color is one thing that can't be changed. One can physically change their sexual identity though.
No I will not apologize to you for your own racial insensitivity.
You have yet to offer any scientific data on whether or not there is different brain chemistry for people that identify as different races. Nobody is arguing their is a difference in trans people, you're just using that bit of evidence to try and cover your lack of evidence, so you can continue pushing this opinion based agenda.
Hey if you want to feel that you're the sole arbitrator on race and you feel like you have the prerogative to negate peoples agency online, you do you, but don't kid yourself by trying to act progressive or tolerant because you're just drawing your own bigoted line in the sand that you don't want people to cross because "muh racial identity/superiority must be protected"
And also if your trans friends are laughing at people because of what they choose to identify as, I'd say you have some pretty immature and sophomoric trans friend who lack any sort of awareness.
toddle-oo bigot.
This is the real reason we need more women mtbers, they need that good vibes outlet as bad as men do. I've noticed an inverse relationship to the amount someone rides their bike vs their "uptight" level.
Seriously, don't f with cars anymore. Be frustrated, let the injustice or class warfare give you a boost, and channel it into riding. Not going to win against a car, even if you are right.
(which is the other modern day problem, everyone has to insist they are right, and post their grievances someplace)
Spend way more time on dirt, gravel or bike path now.
I will say, the woman in the car must be an absolute joy to be around. She is at fault, no doubt and went ahead and wasted peoples time, money and resources, but the art of de-escalation would have have also saved the time, money and resources that were spent.
Jeez, we can all just be quite the bunch of ar$3holes sometimes.
Be good to one another
As a law student Im more than happy to educate them about traffic rules tought in an unmisunderstanding way ;-)
I’m willing to bet, a “Pip pip, cheerio” as she drove past the first time would have made for a much shorter video, and I would have loved to hear it.
I know stereotypes of that sort can get tiresome, but the British accent throughout made for a much more enjoyable video.
Be Good to One Another!
“You should get a bicycle, then you will fine able to fit past me”
Works best if they are visibly unfit, watch the realisation that you just ‘fat shamed’ them slowly hit home
Where I live, the answer to cyclist/car conflict seems to always be: cars get more, cyclists get less. In the pandemic, joyriding by drivers on mountain roads seems to have become a top hobby. Roads that cyclists used for years, with no traffic (since they don't go anywhere) are now full of people driving double the speed limit and making unsafe passes. A few cyclists have been killed or maimed already. Guess what the public safety response is? Speeding enforcement? Nah. Signage about passing on blind curves? Nah. Instead, crackdowns on cyclists for minor stop sign violations, and the building of "cyclist pull-offs", so that riders have to get out of the way to let cars speed. I'm done with accommodating car culture.
This video isn't giving us a ton of information, but there is no indication that the woman was driving over the speed limit. This doesn't appear to be a particularly busy road, either. There are like 4 other cars in the 7 minutes of filming.
Again, I support cyclists using the roads, I support them using the full lane when they feel a car passing them would be dangerous. I also support cyclists on public roads having an appreciation for what can be a significantly slower speed that they ride compared with speed limits, and treating drivers with the same respect and humanity they wish to receive.
Now I stated I was a mountain biker, because that's my passion, but I do own a road bike and spend plenty of time riding it on public roads. Again, similar to my behavior on multi-use mtb trails, I have stopped and pulled over on the road so that cars could get by me when I wasn't comfortable going around a bend in the road with a vehicle approaching me from behind. I stopped. I pulled over. My life means more to me than the workout I'm trying to get.
I am sorry to hear that you're having so much trouble with your local mountain roads. It seems like a failure of law enforcement, maybe you can get a petition to a local representative. It's clearly not okay that people are being hurt where you live.
In this video, however, all I saw was an extremely arrogant cyclist baiting an extremely ignorant woman and so again, I'm not a fan of either one's behavior. This video is literally titled with her license plate number. Why? The only explanation I have is that he hopes people will recognize her plate and harass her. I dislike that he would make her vehicle information public and I dislike how he takes it upon himself to criticize her parenting and accuse her of neglect.
She is wrong, very wrong, but his handling of the entire situation, in my opinion, was deliberately provocative and so no, I am not a fan of his behavior.
In my opinion both parties should do their best to communicate, cyclist with his body language at least showing he is trying to get out of the way, waving “please pass”, driver should keep his distance in worst case occasionally get to closer to signal their presence. After driver passes both should do a sign of courtesy, wave, blink as a mean of encouraging good cooperation.
Putting yourself in a position of a honey badger walking in between a pack of lions is in my personal opinion a rather failed strategy. We should also stop focusing on worst case scenarios. Whichever group of people you would analyze, cyclists, drivers, environmentalists, hunters, stoners - you will find a*sholes. By average We humans are still are too hasty to judge groups as a hole by behaviour of outliers. Either aholes or extra decent people.
Please explain into me........
He couldn't move over as there was nowhere to move over to, you can plainly see this in the video. It wasn't until the motorist had enough space to get beside him that she did, an began berate him. All the dude did was argue this point.... the motorist broke MANY UK driving laws in her tirade an then proceeded to make a fully unnecessary 999 call an waste the time of emergency services again something that she could've been prosecuted for here in the UK. All the while the dude pulled over an continued to film for his own legal an safety purposes. Again being non threatening an polite while the womans kids where obviously upset.....
She was whole in the wrong.
I want to be more like Moss, and what a rad name!
You need to watch the Moss video after the British cyclist non-sense, makes your day way better.
I’m Moss!
That karen is driving in the wrong lane,she drives parallel to the cyclist for long time (you must do it as quick as possible,overtaking a car or whatever could not take a minute cos you think it is fun to chat like that). With this video that Karen would be in the Guardia Civil station in no time with a good excuse to explain.
We have new rules to overtake cyclist in Spain,you must brake to the cyclist speed,then overtake at 10-20 km/h faster than the actual cyclist speed. That means no one can overtake you at high speed in a narrow road. It is a very safe way to do it,safer that 80 km/h differential speed overtake.
Police and G.Civil have 0 tolerance with this new rule if you mess up.
Also, obviously Moss rocks!
Gawton 1:04 would be good
DH bikes tests done by actual downhillers?
Euro-Pikey?
Dirt 100? Maybe the Slack PB 100
You put it as "but road bikers have no issues with having a que (sic) of traffic behind then for mile after mile"
Pretty obviously this is already poisoning the well with hyperbolic BS (nobody is being held up for "mile after mile". But it's also just a biased misstatement of the rules of the road. It presupposes that roads are for cars, that cars have first entitlement to them, and that cyclists on roads are interlopers and in the way.
But there's no legal or moral obligation for cyclists to "get off the road". Bikes have been on roads for longer than cars, they're a better way to get around many places in terms of cost, danger, environmental impact and even time, despite the fact that our societies heavily subsidize cars, fuel, insurance, and car infrastructure, when you consider all of the negative externalities.
An opposite framing would be "drivers have no problem endangering the lives of strangers to save 2 seconds in a car"
Besides moral and legal framing, the idea that bikes should get out of the way of cars is impractical and unsustainable both in the short and long term. I see the framing here as literally shortsighted. Driver sees cyclist, wonders why cyclist can't specifically accommodate him. But by extension, why you and not everyone else? So you're basically saying that the responsibility of getting out of the way should be constantly and permanently shifted to cyclists. In the short term, road riding would basically be impossible if every time you had a car behind you, you had to pull off the road. In the long term, you basically cede the road entirely to cars, as now the expectation is that it's the responsibility of cyclists to never impede cars.
B) In my experience of rural UK roads you are far more likely to be held up by agricultural machinery, especially at particular times of year. No one seems to mind that or assume that a tractor or combine should immediately get out of their way.
C) Horses also hold up traffic. So do sightseers (lots of them in Dales). So do livestock moves. And pedestrians. Roadworks too. The roads are for everyone, not just for the car driver who wants to go everywhere at 60mph. The latter is me most of the time but if I come across someone going more slowly, especially a vulnerable road user, I will give them the respect they deserve and would expect everyone else to do the same.
Maybe Moss could give us all a few lessons on how to do it right, eh?
I've never seen a 30 rider pack in the UK, except during events, and I'm regularly down in Surrey, the lycra capital of the south.
This is the exact same level of logic as a domestic abuser who says "look what you made me do!" to his wife after he beats her.
Also, *cars* don't get frustrated. People driving them do, but the drivers are responsible for their own actions. If they can't drive safely in spite of their frustration, they shouldn't be driving at all.
You know what I do when I get stuck behind an idiot who's tying up traffic when I'm driving my car? I wait until I can get past them safely and legally. I'm not driving a goddamn ambulance; it doesn't matter if my journey takes longer than I planned. The urge to drive as quickly as you can get away with is a sick, dangerous form of entitlement that must be eliminated.
Won’t touch the stuff though because of the shit it contains, but if they made one without half a bag of sugar in and a kg of caffeine I’d be all over it
So if its not safe, you don’t pull in.