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@Jezston
For fuck's sake.
I'm totally against the idea of collective responsibility. If a lone cyclist acts like a dick, I don't think people should be saying 'making the rest of us look bad' etc etc bollocks.
However, Jon Snow is the fucking President of the fucking CTC, the fucking largest cyclist group in the UK, a group that has been campaigning heavily (well, when they have free time between bouts of infighting) for better conditions for cyclists that will encourage uptake and improve safety for us. He is acting as representative of all of that campaigning, and thus is under deserved scrutiny and thus he should be riding like a fucking SAINT.
I remember the drama with the Daily Mail sting on him. The Mail followed him round and took photos of him on one journey repeatedly riding like a bit of a dick. Many cycling groups then came out saying the Mail probably made it up and created reconstructions of how they could make it look like someone riding legally could have photos taken to make them look like they were breaking the law. Then, Jon Snow and the CTC made a statement where Jon Snow whined like a petulant fucking child about how the Mail are big meanies and there are more important things to worry about and drivers do bad stuff all the time and cyclists should be able to turn left on red and wahh wahh wahh I refuse to take responsibility for my actions and the CTC seem to need this celebrity figurehead so they won't sack me despite the fact that they should.