BBC R4 You & Yours, 'At Risk from Cyclists', Tuesday 26 May

So following the pavement cyclist who hit a child the other day, the BBC are now running a special programme asking for people if they've ever been endangered by cyclists. I think we should instead send them our stories of being endangered by drivers while riding a bike. Their email's: youandyours@bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vy4kk

Damn straight.

Fucking hell, reactionary much? Number of people seriously hurt by cyclists - almost zero. Number of people killed or seriously injured by motorised vehicles - fucking loads.
What. A. Load. Of. Bollocks.

The BBC seemed to think Road Tax existed yesterday on Watchdog.

Just about sums it up, really.

Maybe I'll send them a link to the 'cars crashing in to buildings' thread.

It's very OTT of the BBC to do this.

The hit-and-run incident with the child being hit by the pavement cyclist is sad and shouldn't have happened (though the cyclist looks like a scared kid himself).

But there are 80 hit-and-runs a week involving motor vehicles in London alone and I don't see the BBC doing any programmes about that.

80 hit and runs, source?

Right here my good fellow:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/eighty-hitandruns-each-week-on-londons-lawless-roads-9830590.html

wow.

I’ve just listened to that show. It was more balanced than I thought it would be.

Chris Boardman was on early as the main guest, and was (as ever) the voice of calm reason. He replied to the usual anticycling comments well.

There was some sensible discussion of things like Bikeability, police enforcing existing traffic rules properly and not being a knob regardless of your choice of transportation.

Overall, fortunately, a lot of the anticycling comments sounded illogical.

^ this - not the horror show I was expecting.

I have to say, based on the bits of it that I heard, Chris Boardman did a fantastic job.

I'd really like to hear Boardman tell the professional sports cyclists who keep saying stupid shit about regular cyclists to shut the fuck up, to their faces.