First cyclist murdered with a spanner on his exercise bike.
Midsomer Murders ITV3
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Midsomer Murders - professional cycling
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Another murder with a bike chain and pump. What will the next one be? Impaled on a seat stem? Stabbed by spokes? Strangled with an inner tube?
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Run over by a driver who gets off with it by saying "Sorry, didn't see them, sun was in my eyes"?
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DNA on cycling gloves!
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@Frenchy - murders in Midsomer Murders are always by ingenious means, not ordinary casualties of driving.
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Friend of mine (last year's Strava nemesis) was in Midsomer Murders as a cyclist, had two pedal-on background parts. S12E04 'The Glitch'.
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Midsomer Murders is extraordinarily popular in Denmark. Perhaps they wonder at the quaint cycle infrastructure, along with the thatched roofs.
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Best cycling murder: assassin persuades the victim not to cycle. They become fat and have a stroke.
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Munich has some murdering involving bicycles and cycling paraphernalia.
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Vigilantes in a village - they're using hand held speed cameras and coming down heavy on drinking minutes after hours, but someone parked on a pavement with impunity.
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Brexit:The Uncivil War - Dominic Cummings, portrayed as an eccentric genius, got about on a cycle (with helmet and high viz). Riding bicycles is often the mark of the eccentric genius in modern dramas - however this is probably accurate biographical detail in Cummings' case.
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Midsomer Murders - secretary of the ornithological society has her frustrated spinsterhood underlined by her hefty drop bar bike (Pashley?) and front basket decorated with flowers, in which she delivers leaflets.
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This is the Cycling as Portrayed in Popular Culture Thread.
Talking of Dominic Cummings (as I was), Private Eye are giving him the spoof diary this issue.
So I boarded my bicycle, determined to downface the technological mismatch that has made the two-wheeled pedal-based vehicle such a total transport disaster over the past two centuries.
What Is To Be Done and How? Every attempt to ride a bike in the past has been wrong and totally mismanaged. Bicyclists are governed by "fear, honest and interest" (Thucydides). They are too scared to throw aside a set of rules and operating instructions that were designed for inertia and atrophy. Traditional cycling is over - and it should be dispatched like vomit from a hotel corridor. So I place my bottom on the handlebars and my hands on the seat and pedal backwards, hard and fast.My system works brilliantly for two or three seconds at least. I see the future, and it works. This method will revolutionise cycling for once and for all. The bike flies along. But someone has gone and put a wall in its way. The bike hits the wall hard, and I fly through the air onto the ground. Why was this wall there? Whoever did this ruckschrittlich act of wall erection will be rooted out and binned.
My bicycle destroyed by hostile action, I board a bus and tell the driver to take me to Downing Street - and fast.
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haha!
i'm still irritated that in the opening episode of 'Wild Bill', the boss is issued with a speeding ticket for cycling 40 in a 30 stretch.
(i'd like to know how anyone non-pro gets a bike up to 40mph on the lincolnshire fens!)
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Strong tailwind? Not a speeding ticket though would have to be dangerous cycling.
Cummings getting on bus and telling them where to go is corking
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The Midsomer episode with cycle-related murders is showing on the Murder Channel aka ITV3 tonight (9pm).
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Watched Rushmore the Wes Anderson movie again last night (was in myself). Lot of cycling in it.
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@Rosie - This is the Cycling as Portrayed in Popular Culture Thread.
Just realised - Dominic Cummings Private Eye spoof diary very amusing!
Watching Wisting, this BBC4 Nordic Noir unusually set in Norway - (generally have been Sweden and Denmark).
The eponymous chief inspector is now under investigation for a possible wrongful conviction.*The police investigator tasked to root out corruption is shown getting geared up for a sporty ride up a hill or two to Larvik Polis HQ.
He click clacks into reception in his cycling shoes. Clip to the police team sniggering with subtitles 'do you see how he was dressed, padded shorts 'nappy' etc'.
The message here is that he is a sole player with no friends. A policeman whose job is to convict other policemen.
Standard issue 'outsider' shorthand.*In Scotland it might have been an 'unproven' verdict?
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@Laidback - yeah the solitary cycling person is usually portrayed as an eccentric.
OTOH a couple cycling usually convey high spirits and happiness. A couple cycling through pretty scenery laughing will be part of a montage of a love affair in its early stages.
I saw a twist on that with Jojo the Clown last week when the mother and son enjoy a relaxed good time together on cycles.
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The whole plot pivots on cycling in Yesterday. Indeed the hero’s manager drops him off where his bike is padlocked instead of just driving him home. One of the many plot loopholes. This allows him to be hit by a bus.
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In France, “to pedal in the sauerkraut” means to go nowhere fast, or have difficulty finishing something. .. It apparently comes from early Tour de France races, when wagons picking up stragglers often featured ads for sauerkraut.
(I imagine some Tour de Francers here are aware of this."
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@Rosie: According to one of the BTL comments on that article, the more common form of that phrase is "pédaler dans la semoule" i.e in semolina. Google Translate gives exactly that for "get nowhere fast". It also offers "choucroute" as the French for sauerkraut, which rather supports my suspicion that the supposed origin of the pickled cabbage version of the phrase is a false etymology. Apart from anything else why would a van following the Tour de France not use the French word for the product being advertised?
(An elderly friend of my history teacher at school used to assure him that the town of Glossop was so called because the local yeomanry used to pause there on their route marches to have a rest and "gloss up" the buttons on their uniforms. Total nonsense, of course. Another example of false etymology which became popular for a short while a few years back was the supposed explanation of the term "taking the piss" as being related to the transport of urine to be used for the extraction of nitrates for the production of explosives.)
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@ejstubbs - okay, the sauerkraut thing too good to be true.
Pedalling in semolina = wading in treacle.
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Wading through treacle rather.
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More pro-cycling murder this week, only this time it happened on Saint Marie (Death in Paradise).
Cycling there looks much nicer, if nothing else the weather should be better.
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Joke on Milton Jones:-
Sitting at home in my hi-viz jacket, I reflected...
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Heard it, chortled @Rosie
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@gembo - out of the laughless drek that passes for comedy on Radio 4, M Jones stands almost alone.
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@Rosie things I switch off instantly on Radio4
1. Ann Atkins on thought for today (racist fascist pretending to be reasonable Middle Englander)
2, The archers (even the daily theme tune gets on my wick, tho I like the Sunday theme tune
3. Almost all of their so called comedy but highlights - MJ. Count Arthur, hitchhiikers and I’m sorry I haven’t a clue. A sign of my decent into Middleclassness is my hatred of Just a minute softened over the yearsPosted 4 years ago # -
The old classics, Clue & Minute, stand up pretty well.
Don't mind Tom Shuttleworth's Hang Ups.
But so many unfunny comedians. I assume comedy shows must be the cheapest to make.
I like The Archers. No-one is troubled about Covid-19. Last night I blenched when one character offered to hug another. And another bunch of characters went out on the lash.
Also the Personality Transfer plots. Phil, bird-watcher and boyfriend of environmentalist Kirsty, is in fact a gang-master.
I don't want to stereotype people, but I'd guess not many gang masters have bird watching as a hobby,
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