Chris Boardman for cycling Tsar

If only we knew then

Surely not…

Gilligan slung a ton of bullshit for Borisconi during the election for which he's been rewarded with £38K a year for two days a week.

Are you really surprised by the specious nonsense he spouting now?

Are you really surprised by the specious nonsense he spouting now?

Yeah I'm not sure on the one hand there's that and the fact he has literally no reason in the slightest to advise on anything even remotely to do with cycling but then I wonder if Boris could really just appoint him like that surely not ?

Boardman on breakfast TV 715 today. With John Orcutt, from New York

Martin Vickers is paid nearly £70k a year to represent his constituents, had a chance to address the recent tragedies in London, and instead gnashed his gums about "road tax" - the dumbass lazy ignorant useless sack of shit.

£70k a year you say? Just for talking shit and arguing? How do I get some of that action? I mean, come on, I'm the perfect candidate. Ignorant and shouty.

£70k a year you say? Just for talking shit and arguing? How do I get some of that action? I mean, come on, I'm the perfect candidate, I'd be the new Nicholas Soames.

Fixed.

i think i saw a picture a while back of andrew gilligan on a bicycle, so he is eminently qualified to opine on all matters cycling related.

hey, i went to a hospital once - can i be the mayor's advisor on heart surgery?

Jim Dobbin employs his missus, and claimed £90k in expenses, total family income (paid by us) is getting on for £200k, he's invited to comment about recent fatalities in London and he drones on aimlessly about a scratched car, the pathetic galloping useless cocklord.

Dobbin has form. Here he is in 2012: "On this issue of cycling and who is a danger to whom, as a Member of the Council of Europe, when I go to Strasbourg, I always feel under threat from cyclists".

He also asked Roger Geffen of CTC, who was giving evidence to MPs, what he thought of cyclists who "continually go through red lights". Dunno about scratched cars but scratched records certainly spring to mind.

On The Politics Show today.

Starts at 1:15:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03mnpqm/Daily_Politics_18_12_2013/

Common sense from Mr Boardman, a load of old uninformed bum gravy from the MPs and presenter:

Roads aren't safe for cyclists because of German bombs.

That was Chris Bryant, who I normally like.

First question, "Why don't you wear a helmet?"

First question, "Why don't you wear a helmet?"

ffs!!!!!

That was some tory mp, who also said

"I don't cycle, but if I did I'd wear a helmet coz it would make me more confident!".

These people formulate policy.

helmet = confidence = risk taking = injury

(sometimes)

That was some tory mp, who also said

These people formulate policy.

true. they do.,

Cheeky link to my take on idiots in power wittering on about helmets.

Chris is depressed (as am I)

What are your feelings about the progress of cycling in the political sphere?
CB Massive frustration. There isn’t a single logical argument to not back cycling, any battleground you want to fight: Health, pollution, transport, economic… it wins in every area, so it’s depressing that of all the politicians, only Boris has stood up and put targets and long term funding in place to make a difference. It makes me sad when people shoot at Boris when he is the only one who is having a meaningful go, because his head’s above the parapet.

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/interview-chris-boardman-on-campaigning-the-rise-of-cx-and-ibds/016384

http://road.cc/content/news/126023-chris-boardman-says-it%E2%80%99s-ridiculous%E2%80%9D-government-continue-building-roads

It infuriates me that it's so hard to get the government to fund and prioritise something that has no downsides. Instead we're building more roads while car traffic's dropping. It's ridiculous.

For a moment I thought if bozza goes back into Westminster for sure, he would start to have an effect on national policy, but then I woke up in bed

P.149 The Ride Journal

"There is no evidence-based reason as to why we should not be moving heaven and Earth to make cycling and walking the preferred means of transport in the UK."

Worth a read in full.

Awful news, RIP.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-36819791

Awful awful news - black logo as a mark of respect @Velocio

Terrible terrible terrible. RIP.

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/carol-boardman-killed-while-cycling-by-a-motorist/019830

Tragic
Rip carol

@velocio

I 2nd this proposal. Am fully aware that the black logo is for cyclist deaths within the m25 but would support an exception in these circumstances.

Sad news. Very nice piece at the end of tdf highlights show this evenin.

We've always kept it focused.

Cyclists who die in a road traffic incident within the M25, and people on LFGSS who die.

I'm kinda against the over-broadening because I'm on other sites where the notion of a "black header" has become over-liberal in their use... initially "just notable", then it's hard to stop it being "this person was important too", and the definition becomes blurred and it's black more than it's normal.

At the moment, we all know what the black logo means. I'll argue against it changing, even if the person who died was Boardman himself, Wiggins, Froome, etc.

Just cyclists within the M25 (death via a road traffic incident) and those on LFGSS (for any cause of death).