Boris Johnson (@MayorOfLondon) Assassination Attempt!
This is SCARY stuff!
This video comes via Andrea at Velorution. Just watch the truck come bowling along, desperate to overtake the cyclists . . one of whom was Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, who was out scouting routes for a cycling super highway.
I’m with Andrea on this – it’s time for some power to be exercised by the Mayor’s office to stop this sort of mayhem.
Boris is famous as a cyclist for not routinely wearing a helmet (maybe ‘cos it would mess up his hair?). But it looks like yesterday was one of those days when he was lidded up. Who wants to bet with me that some nutter in the press will make an issue of this? I can just see the headlines now . . .
Tousle-Haired Boris, who routinely rides without a helmet, was lucky to escape when a parked car was dragged into his path by a passing truck
[Tom Vanderbilt - note the passive voice!].
Bah!
Boris is surely the only cyclist who doesn’t wear a helmet in case it might tidy his hair
Or more likely, “a shocked lorry driver had a narrow escape when his lorry nearly dragged a parked car onto Major of London, Boris Johnson”. One must remember that these events are always accidents caused by vehicles, nothing to do with the driver (who is tha main victim). Probably lead to a ban on cyclists on narrow streets…
less facetiously, one of the striking things about this story is that Boris and co were out on their bikes scouting out bike routes. Up until now, I had always thought (from the results at least) that bike routes were designed either by a) someone in a car, b) someone looking at a map, preferably without contour lines or c) someone placing a drunken ant onto a map and watching where they went.
Going out and looking ON A BIKE? That’s revolutionary…
uhm, Karl..where did my comment go?