http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Clickbait warning: Cyclists are a menace and should be banned from the roads en Mon, 18 May 2026 09:45:32 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15733#post-204023 Sun, 08 Nov 2015 10:58:36 +0000 gibbo 204023@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It must be hard being a journo who writes these sorts of opinion pieces.</p> <p>Firstly, you have to read a handful of other people's articles. Then you have to decide which parts you're going to copy. Then you have to change enough of the words that it can't be proven that your article is a mindless knock-off...</p> <p>Phew! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15733#post-204012 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 18:24:50 +0000 crowriver 204012@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rebuttal in Cycling Weekly:</p> <p><a href="http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/a-metro-journalist-has-written-the-most-ridiculous-anti-cycling-column-yet-198954" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/a-metro-journalist-has-written-the-most-ridiculous-anti-cycling-column-yet-198954</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15733#post-204011 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 18:23:32 +0000 crowriver 204011@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Unrepentant hack:</p> <p>Yvette Caster ‏@YvetteCaster Nov 5<br /> Awoke to a billion tweets from cycling mafia ranting at me for saying they should get off the roads. Stand by it all </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15733#post-204010 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 18:14:56 +0000 crowriver 204010@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Response piece for "balance" published yesterday:</p> <p><a href="http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/06/rather-than-complaining-about-cyclists-motorists-should-be-campaigning-for-more-bikes-on-the-roads-5484438/" rel="nofollow">http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/06/rather-than-complaining-about-cyclists-motorists-should-be-campaigning-for-more-bikes-on-the-roads-5484438/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15733#post-204008 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 18:09:14 +0000 crowriver 204008@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Peter WalkerVerified account ‏@peterwalker99 Nov 5<br /> We have a winner! The most inane, idiotic anti-cycling article of all time! Applause for @YvetteCaster </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15733#post-204007 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 18:07:04 +0000 crowriver 204007@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cyclists are a menace and should be banned from the roads</p> <p>"There’s a two-wheeled menace terrorising our already crowded roads – say it with me – ‘the cyclist’.</p> <p>He, and, yes, it is almost always a he, some balding MAMIL (Middle-aged Man In Lycra) sweating away, holding up traffic, causing accidents and generally being a total liability on the modern highway.</p> <p>It’s hard to know where to begin when listing all that’s wrong with bikes, cycling and the fact they’re even allowed on a quiet lane let along a busy London road, because there’s so many things, paired with the fact surely anyone with half a brain can see they’re absurd.</p> <p>But let’s try."</p> <p>This drivel continues here:</p> <p><a href="http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/05/cyclists-are-a-menace-and-should-be-banned-from-the-roads-5482050/" rel="nofollow">http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/05/cyclists-are-a-menace-and-should-be-banned-from-the-roads-5482050/</a></p> <p>All I can say is "must try harder, Yvette Caster!"</p> <p>Apparently she's a "Senior reporter" at the Metro. Helpfully, she invites us to give her a piece of our mind (140 chars or less). </p> <p>"Tweet me @YvetteCaster " </p>