rain miles count double

Is this the end of the ride? Maybe, maybe not. It’s the end of the beginning at least. Rain Miles is taking a break.

When you’re riding in traffic, do you ever feel like they’re all out to get you? You might not be too far wrong, as a number of recent studies show just how dangerous it can be to cycle on the roads in the UK.

And you know what else? It looks like the motorists are generally the ones at fault.

Facebook threw up a real eye-opener recently, in the form of an anti-cycling group set up by a young man by the name of Luke Collins. The excellently spelled “just want punch cyclest in the head when they wont move out your way” group.

The group, before it was deleted, was a litany of violent anti-cyclist comments from motorists, and showed just how aggressive, selfish and stupid many drivers can be. Not to mention semi-literate and homophobic.

Following the recent complaints about cyclists riding while listening to music, cycling news site road.cc ran a poll asking what cyclists themselves thought about the issue. The results are now in.

Today we bid farewell to a faithful, if relatively recent, friend.

It is my duty to report that the stick-on moustache that was presented to me (along with all the other riders) at the start of 2009’s Lap The Lough, finally succumbed to the Northern Ireland weather and fell off my helmet where it had lived since the event.