"The only good cyclists are dead ones" - Richard Nye

@ Stonehedge

A sincere and humble response? Didn't cross my mind for some reason!

(You're right, of course)

Too late for it now.

He has rolled out the classic cowards "but I can explain if you give me a chance" defence.

Mass ride out then a lie down infront of his house/office?

This joker doesn't really anger me. It's right that he gets a strong response but who's surprised this is what he thinks? He sounds like a complete nipple.

Read it. Want those 8 minutes back....and a bun.

This joker doesn't really anger me. It's right that he gets a strong response but who's surprised this is what he thinks? He sounds like a complete nipple.

Nipples are great!

This guy is more like a 3rd nipple.

not even gonna lower myself to reading it,

Same here. I've seen too much of that kind of thing over the years.

I think journalists looking for a response now know that all they have to do is make one anti-cycling comment, and the more controversial the better, and then they can sit back and watch the outraged twittersphere cycling community give them more publicity than they could possibly have dreamt of.

It must be the journalistic trolling equivalent of robbing sweets off kids.

Thread ends.

Just had to scroll through this thread to check that it wasn't a spoof/sick joke.

This bloke's been added to my 2012 shitlist.

Things to skin and bugger before you leave a country...

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I don't use FB

Can someone just simply put: "You're a cunt" from Pistanator, LFGSS

Thanks

done

Haha, ask and you shall receive..!

my tuppence

other people are obnoxious cunts- i can only presume that i am one of the many obnoxious cunts that plague other people. ergo, our opinions as to each other's opinions are probably respectively obnoxious and cuntish. one could argue about it but then the reality of being surrounded by obnoxious cunts becomes a little overbearing and the only way out seems suicide or a retreat somewhere monastic perhaps. the only way i can see to get along is to ignore each other - and this chap is pretty easy to ignore.
journalists have to write something and it can't all be nuggets of wit and wisdom - particularly in the richmond and sheen gazette or wherever it was.
you don't slap a mentally handicapped child for breaking a vase, so why attack this man for writing something stupid. pity him if you must care about it but a witch hunt is pretty obnoxiously cuntish. he might be a really good dad for all you know, or just just a flawed individual like the rest of us guilty of professional mediocrity and thoughtlessness, and perhaps a bit of hubris. so fucking what.

Nergged for out rationalising me.

I like the guy from Yorkshire.

Fixed the thread title. Nice and googleable now.

Everything on the publishers FB is fair game now

Is he under EEI's patio?

"James Martin is a cunt" appeared at the top of google searches.

Superb.

I really hope one day Richard Nye is driving in his car eating an ice lolly whilst wearing shorts, and the top half of the lolly falls off and lands in between his legs, and is really cold and wet and he can't find anywhere to pull over.......

Why wait? Just empty one's bidon over his crotch if he's ever spotted driving about Richmond with his window open.

He's given a statement to the Times.
Sounds just like a clueless buffoon, which is probably why he is editing a regional listings magazine, where the content is only an after thought once the advertising space has been filled, rather then doing something worthwhile with his life.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article3530443.ece

“With regard to my remark about the only good cyclist being a dead one, it is just a phrase, like people who said during the Cold War that ‘the only good Russian is a dead one’

Don't really know where to begin.

He has however apologised unreservedly to the bereaved and made the very good point that some of us ride like dicks.

As a man far greater than myself once said, "I pity the fool".

Right - I'm going to go and have it out with the cunt.

Right - I'm going to go and have it off with the cunt.

You saucy bastard!