Adam Edwards, Cotswold Life

[glenn forger]

http://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/home/cotswold_voice_wheels_of_ire_1_3750240?action=logout

The sweaty Spandex stick insects round corners in the middle of lanes and ride double and triple-breasted on dangerous A and B roads. They pay no road tax and their only contribution to the environment that they visually and verbally despoil is, as far as I can see, to order a few black coffees and non-alcoholic drinks from the non-sweaty owners of coffee bars and pubs.

I have often thought that if Health and Safety had been in existence in the 19th century and known about the coming of the millions of automobiles on our roads it would have stated the obvious and said to any interested parties suggesting the advent of spandex cyclists ‘Does Lycra go splat?’

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Ho hum. Another lazy journalist says "there's nothing to write about today so I'll vent my ire at cyclists"

I love the irony that it doesn't occur to him how flawed the argument is. If modern "Health and Safety" had been around in the 19th century the motor car would never have been approved. As it was they disapproved badly enough to bring in the red flag law.

 

[400bhp]

Can we just copy the article here to avoid click bait?

 

[glenn forger]

It's the last line that got me. It makes no sense and it's rather gruesome and horrible.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Is any of this **** worth discussing?

Realistically, no. It's just another retard who thinks the Clarkson school of randomly insulting people is the way forward.

 

[400bhp]

Is any of this **** worth discussing?

Not on the click bait, but let's take the pish and ridicule the story here. Soup's disappeared of late so we need a scapegoat.

 

[Drago]

Chump.

 

[DannyCFC]

It's poor and lazy writing (and I know about that from a past life!). At least Clarkson can be entertainingly offensive - this is just dull.

If the Cotswold Life pays for this - and I doubt they do - I'll dust off the old Olivetti and send them an article proposing broadband be banned for the rural lower orders as it makes Glyndebourne buffer when viewed by real people. Then I'll spend the tenner paid on cycling socks from Aldi.

 

[gavgav]

I actually read this article in the Cotswold Life magazine, whilst down at my Auntie and Uncle's in Gloucestershire a couple of weeks ago. Made my blood boil a bit, but just another idiot journalist, who doesn't deserve to be given media time and space and is probably fishing for comments back.

 

[DannyCFC]

It seemed to me it was written that way.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Having read the above posts, I've decided not to read the article . In any case, this Adam Edwards sounds like the UK's equivalent of Australia's Derryn ("cyclists are cockroaches on wheels") Hinch.

 

[Mark1978]

He does look a bit like an overweight ageing James May

 

[John the Monkey]

I'd never heard of the bloke before this.

Somehow, I can't help feeling that that means he wins.

 

[hopless500]

Idiotic article by an idiotic brainless journalist.

 

[Archie_tect]

Don't read drivel, life's short enough doing all the nice stuff.