Lucky Luke.

As long as you're not 3 abreast - ride in the gutter and big smiles for all the cars.

Like riding a bicycle tandem?

I keep it in mind every day. Not just for me, but for my friends and family that cycle. That's why I make sure I let the idiots know I'm not going to take it. Say what you like but I make sure I stand up for myself when challenged and I won't die with an apologetic smile on my face.

Who was the 'own worst enemy' in this case? Maybe it's the guy sitting in chookie with no job prospects to come home to. He'll be lucky to be riding the bus never mind driving one.

The article states there was a prior argument after the bus nearly hit the cyclist at a roundabout. The cyclist is either making a point, or more likely is simply afraid to have the bus pass him again, perhaps having noticed that the driver is a raving lunatic. Either way, the cyclist gets a broken leg which hopefully mends soon enough. The bus driver gets jailed for at least 6 months and the rest of the world gets to witness it. To my mind that's a positive outcome for all road users as it sends the right message.

Ja it was Meads fault. In a just society they'd jail him for provoking a civil servant and Mr Bus Driver would be sent back out to patrol the streets. What kind of a world are we living in where cyclists are allowed to occupy a whole lane and you can't even use your bus to show them the error of their ways? Farking crackers if you ask me.

Bristol bus driver using his vehicle as a weapon gets jailed. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=244_1329418259 <-- video footage of the incident

Er.. I think it was everybody else that did your job for you there. If we're honest your website holding page creates nothing at all.

Anyone out there using their iPhone as a bike computer? Personally I'm keen for these two devices to converge, although I suspect the technology may still be a little half-baked as compared to the dedicated devices that have benefitted from years of refinement. Issues for me: (major) crashes - don't want to be claiming for a new phone every time I hit the deck. (medium) battery life - when I'm out riding I like to know I can still make a call if I have to. (minor) weight weenie problems - phones are a little heavier than your average bike computer. I see Buycycle has a bunch of accessories for use with your iPhone - including HR Monitor strap Cadence Sensor Protective case http://www.buycycle.co.za/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=2133 Anybody out there using this stuff? Seems early days yet.. probably best to wait a bit. It would be cool to have some kind of Ant+ Power app as well. Maybe one exists already.

I have a daughter. I took her for her first ride up Chapmans Peak on Sunday. Good thing I was there to ride behind her because some of the idiots who drove past us saw fit leave less than 6 inches between us and their cars. Obviously we were riding single file. So far no-one has brought it up on the radio.

I do. I also drive around in my car occasionally. This apparently ma-hoosive impediment to motoring efficiency hasn't really affected me yet. Maybe I'm just lucky. Anyway, if you do cycle 4 abreast whilst gesticulating wildly at hooting vehicles then you are a fool. This must be self-evident? Or maybe this issue is the motorist equivalent of curtain twitching? A smalltalk wheel-greaser so to speak. Motorists actually need the annual Argus brigade to ride like suicidal numpties. Because it gives them something to agree on whilst they are all trying to kill each other in ways too numerous to list here.

S'troo I tell you - they don't bother me. Everybody else loves to carp on about it. I don't get it. But then I also don't get why the annual Argus brigade rides so ***. Where I learned to ride in traffic they'd all be pancaked quick quick.

more to that story. do some reading bud. Li Fuyu was a patsy - Bruyneel threw him under the bus.

No, those were not good points. They were dumb ones lacking any insight into how doping actually works. Stuff that has been explained here and elsewhere many many times. Good use of emoticons though. I can see you had a lot of fun bashing that post out.

Having said that, I must again state the obvious. Life has many challenges. For me included. Driving around bunches of cyclists must rank pretty low down on the list. I can't say it's something that has slowed my progress in this world by more than a few seconds in the past 38 years.

Even despite what exactly? Despite you repeating the 'our own worst enemies' chestnut for the 57 millionth time on this website? I bow before the power of your rhetoric. The annual bike-dusting Argus brigade tend to ride like clowns and cock it up for the rest of us. What can we do?

DC in a lab - no chance you will catch me volunteering for that ****. Death by boredom.

Have a coffee with no sugar before you ride. It will take a week to 10 days on average - if you do regular sessions - and your body will light a fire under those fat stores. Mates of mine did a study at SSISA where they had to ride multiple 200k sessions on stationary bikes whilst subsisting on high-fat diets. The results showed their systems adapting to the high fat diet over a period of weeks and at the end of the study they had actually lost weight. Not suggesting we all eat lard on toast for breakfast - but today's food is typically full of refined sugars and starch. Which means there's no motivation for your body to burn that fat. Tarmac can tell you more if he is about today.

Food tastes better after a solid bonk. During can be fun too. Depends what it is though. Spicy curries are out.

Bonking is a great way to burn off excess brain cells and non-vital organs that just slow you down - things like your appendix, spleen, tonsils and whatnot. :thumbup:

coffee, water, green tea, coke zero, rooibos, wine. more or less in that order.

Reading the posts on this site you're likely to come away thinking cyclists only go through red lights, we are all lawless scum and deserve to be flattened by the nearest available vehicle.

I'd totally wear one if I had one. On Friday I went through a green light at 40km/h+ Some tool turned right in front of me and actually hooted at me while he was doing it.

The day you guys get hit by cars I'll be first to post and ask the questions you're asking. Were you riding in the gutter? No? Must have been your fault then. '2 sides to this story', 'bet you ran 20 red lights before this happened', 'hope you didn't scream like a girl'. etc etc etc Sometimes the only thing that qualifies this as a cycling site is the classifieds.

See you then Andy, good memories from last year. I've had a week off.. will have to see how I feel on the day.