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    Jeremy Vine ‘stopping cycling videos’ due to abuse he receives
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    Jeremy Vine ‘stopping cycling videos’ due to abuse he receives

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    1. WalkingCloud on

      Doesn’t surprise me, people are unhinged and lose all perspective as soon as someone is on a bike. 

      It’s bizarre. 

    2. Ok-Milk-8853 on

      I don’t even drive, and even I’ve started to think cyclists are bellends.

      Edit: alright, I’m not saying you should get death threats, or that drivers are all sound.
      But the amount of times I’ve been clipped by someone on a bike, or cut off by someone on a bike going on the pavement, god forbid you use the bell, or stop for a second, that’d be a real inconvenience.

      Yeah, I’ve started to lump you all in as bellends.

    3. carbonrich on

      This is the reality of cycling regularly in the UK. All drivers should be made to cycle for a couple of days to pass their test, I think it would open a lot of eyes. I walk, I cycle and I drive: it’s only the cycling where I regularly feel endangered (by motor vehicles). Bad infrastructure doesn’t help, but it’s primarily due to driver behaviour, and most of them not knowing the actual Highway Code: passing distances, who has right of way and where, where cyclists are encouraged to cycle for their own safety etc. I’ve cycled in Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium and it generally feels very safe. Nobody is arguing there aren’t problems with some cyclists, but we’re not riding multiple tonne death machines at 30+ mph. Cyclists are responsible for a thousand times less deaths per year than drivers; to hear some people speak you’d think it was the other way round. Get a grip.

    4. Death_Binge on

      Obviously the death threats are beyond the pale, but he really doesn’t help himself by riding a penny bloody farthing in central London and regularly committing his own cycling mistakes.

    5. Striking_Smile6594 on

      I’ve no idea what it is that makes people loose their minds over seeing someone on bike. Cyclists are hurting no one, in fact they are particularly vulnerable to being hurt by drivers. The don’t inconvenience drivers in any way.

      Despite this they are villainised and subject to online abuse when all they’ve requested is a bit of basic courtesy.

      It’s classic bully behaviour. The powerful identifying a powerless scapegoat and picking on them knowing they can’t fight back.

    6. Substantial-Newt7809 on

      Don’t have strong feeling for cyclists either way, but they’re much less common here than in denser cities. I’ve seen some of Vine’s videos and he genuinely makes himself look like a twat plenty of times. It’s true, some drivers do behave dangerously.

      But as a cyclist he has a responsibility to use his response time and brain power to avoid a collision where he can. I seem to recall he saw a van doing a maneuver and basically put himsef in a very dangerous position, intentionally. Didn’t have to, could have stopped, had plenty of reaction time. If I see a pedestrian just step in to the middle of the road, I have to stop the car, I can’t just try to get past them because they’re not supposed to be there. That’s basic safety.

    7. VegetableTotal3799 on

      First the came for Gary Lineker and I did not speak up

      Then they came for Evan edit ~~Dando~~ Davis and his heat pump podcast.

      Now it’s Jeremy Vine and his YouTube videos.

      When with the purge of the BBC end /s

    8. gapgod2001 on

      The risks he takes under the assumption that people don’t make mistakes is just mind numbing. Then he cries victim…

    9. used_car_meme on

      Cyclists are fine but I always find it funny how Jeremy Vine is such a piece of shit and is a particularly aggressive terf, yet makes himself into a victim when he’s… cycling? Ok sure. His videos are genuinely unhinged.

      Bullying works I guess!

    10. RoyaleWCheese_OK on

      Insufferable cockwomble publicly angering people and displaying it for all to see via social media receives threats of violence. Is anyone surprised?

    12. Lost_Exchange2843 on

      It’s important that we continue to abuse him in spite of this. He’s an insufferable prat

    13. ShowerEmbarrassed512 on

      I remember getting into a spat with him on Twitter when he filmed himself riding through a red light, and him declaring that cyclists shouldn’t have to adhere to red lights 

    14. Spaced_UK on

      I remember one video a few years ago, he was clearly at fault. I called him out on it on what was Twitter.

      Instead of doing the reasonable thing and trying to debate his point, he blocked me. I wasn’t the only one either.

    15. bloqed on

      It’s important to remember that he is ultimately doing this for attention, as per his occupation.

    16. Puzzled_Ad1296 on

      Is the abuse because he’s on a bike or because he’s Jeremy Vine? We need to be specific here.
      If it’s because he’s on a bike, bit unfair, if it’s because he’s Jeremy Vine then fair enough.

    17. EgoCity on

      Vines a cnut…. I wouldn’t mind if he just reported to the police but he plays the martyr like some muppet overacting on Macbeth.

    19. loosebolts on

      He blocked me on X because I had the audacity to tell the truth in a reply to one of his videos.

      I merely stated that the last time I drove into London I didn’t witness a single cyclist stop at a red light. That was enough for him to block me.

      I’ve subsequently driven through London another dozen times and guess what? Same story.

    20. fhgsgjtt12 on

      I don’t agree with bothering people, but there is only one cyclist that should be trolled, and that’s CyclingMikey.

    21. a3430 on

      The irony of Redditors in here looking down on any group of people while using the word “cockwomble” is not lost on me.

    23. InternetHomunculus on

      As some one who rides a bike I really hate how confrontational Jeremy Vine is. He’s an absolute muppet and exacerbates a lot of the situations he gets himself into and sometimes he causes it himself with his poor road craft

      The worst one I seen was him overtaking a slow moving van on its left, the van turned into him. The van wasn’t indicating and Vine had right of way to make that manoeuvrer. But he SHOULD NOT have done it in the first place. I’d never overtake an unusually slow moving vehicle like that as chances are the driver isn’t sure where they are going or paying full attention to the road

      I do think people doing stupid shit on the road only have themselves to blame if it ends up online. If you can’t drive (or ride) safely you shouldn’t be on the road

      I just want to add sending death threats etc to Vine is insane. Even when not being as provocative as him some people have a weird hatred for any one on two wheels, even motorcyclists who don’t tend to slow traffic

    24. aehii on

      Maybe people throw abuse his way because he unfailingly pushes right views with the pretence of being balanced, he’s a snivelling snidey broadcaste who actively makes the daily discourse in the country worse.

      When a comedian as non political as Sean Lock does a bit about hating you in his mainstream standup, it says a lot. And that was a long time ago. He’s still the same.

      He says he’s upset in the quotes there, I didn’t think he could get upset. There’s not one issue I think that would make his blood boil with righteous anger at the injustice of it, not one thing. It doesn’t matter what it is, it will always slide off him.

    25. NateShaw92 on

      I am getting a sense of deja vu, didn’t he say he’d quit ages ago or was it just a hiatus?

      Also these die hard crazy murderous motorists are a cult sometimes, although not all of these are motorists.

    26. AnonymousTimewaster on

      Would just like to take this opportunity to call Jeremy Vine a cunt tbh. He’s a walking Daily Mail column. Right up there with Farage.

    27. Henno212 on

      See’s HGV in distance, speeds up and goes into their blinds spot. Goes home, edits video and posts it.

    28. stoopyface on

      This is gonna get a lot of hate but I think it’s for the best that Jeremy Vine is stopping these cycling videos and it would be good if a lot of the other popular cyclists stopped as well, as it is not benefitting the cycling community. (Obviously this doesn’t excuse abuse.)

      A lot of these popular cycling personalities are simply terrible ambassadors for it – they regular demonstrate and promote poor road use, not to mention showing very little self-reflection when people call them on it.

      I don’t think anyone can expect a positive shift in the general public’s opinion of cyclists so long as the most visible champions of it behave in such a way and are defended so vehemently by a great many.

    29. RekallQuaid on

      Because he couldn’t hack it when people pointed out things he had done wrong himself, like going through red lights, and weaving.

    30. fitzgoldy on

      Doesn’t help himself considering he drives like a cyclist everyone hates, through red lights etc.

    31. LHMNBRO08 on

      Sad. He actually does highlight some real issues and gives cycling more visibility.