Motorway Cyclist

[Drago]

Can't believe he's only 52!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-40718677

The statement he made in his own defence was hardly the best either.

 

[Jimidh]

Get cycling it will help you keep your youthful good looks!!!

 

[PaulSB]

If he cycles on motorways he's lucky to have made it to 52!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Hobbs was heading towards Bristol on the M5 on his bike during the afternoon of April 29 when police caught up with him.

He overtook the police car, and they forced him from the road after a further two miles when he went into a service station at Junction 28

Bet he's got the KOM for that stretch now.

 

[Cycleops]

You've got to admire him, cycling down to his hearing and sleeping on the court steps. Against his spiritual beliefs to travel petrol/ diesel vehicles. Obviously not against his beliefs to keep up with current cycle technology, he's got disc brakes!

 

[Milkfloat]

Aside from the small matter of the law, I would argue that motorway hard-shoulders are safer than a large number of roads he could have chosen to ride on.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Who said English Eccentrics are dead?

 

[mjr]

Aside from the small matter of the law, I would argue that motorway hard-shoulders are safer than a large number of roads he could have chosen to ride on.

Indeed. Highways England paints cycle symbols in the narrow shoulders of quasimotorway A roads https://beyondthekerb.org.uk/2014/02/25/idiots/ and then everyone acts all surprised when someone thinks motorway shoulders are better.

 

[Paulus]

Devon air has done nothing to help his complexion!

 

[Drago]

Devon air has done nothing to help his complexion!

Or his hairline!

 

[numbnuts]

If he's 52 I'm in my thirty's

 

[mjr]

[QUOTE 4894769, member: 9609"]is it still like that ?[/QUOTE]
I don't know about those exact ones @bez pictures but there's still plenty of crap shoot like this on the HE network: http://www.instantstreetview.com/@52.046065,-0.799665,245.68h,-5.92p,2.3z - the cycle crossing warning sign being placed after the crossing is a special touch

ETA: streetview refuses to stay in the northbound carriageway so you may need to move around to see the whole carp.

 

[Tin Pot]

Who said English Eccentrics are dead?

Anyone with a first name taken from Dwarvish Tolkien needs some leeway.

 

[Globalti]

I wonder how the Police would have treated him if he'd been clean-shaven and wearing club lycra rather than a crusty half man - half compost type?

 

[Drago]

I wonder how the Police would have treated him if he'd been clean-shaven and wearing club lycra rather than a crusty half man - half compost type?

They'd have gone all Rodney King on him.