There have been a number of 'Homo' species throughout the ages. Homo Forensis or Homo Erectus come to mind. However, I feel that the species Homo Bicyclus will be particularly short lived. Especially since they share the environment with Homo Internis Combustus. BTW Chaps, well done. A lovely story.
There are so many people I would love to send this to but I don't have a way to, because I don't keep contact with those a-holes. And I myself ride a bike.
Just love the veiled reference to Vine calling out a motorist for being on his phone whilst using his phone on his bike. Great work guys - worth a share.
@@skinnyergs legality has nothing to do with it. It's about safety. If it's not safe to use your phone in a car it's certainly not safe to use one riding a bike. In fact the worst are those who wear ear phones whilst cycling, who think that the sound of Adele is more important than the sound of the truck bearing down on you from behind.
A brilliant parody! On a serious note, the arrogance of cyclists on the winding county lanes where I live is, indeed, akin to medieval royalty. Bow down and adore us as we ride two abreast offering you no chance of overtaking! Another treat is to charge through the village at an early hour of the weekend, nattering away one to the other at the top of their voices. But - hey - lycra gods don’t need to think about other people having a snooze, do they?
@@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769you’re right, of course! At least I don’t 🎉🎉wear lycra, thus forcing anyone who doesn’t want to feel ill to keep their eyes firmly above waist level…….
I am a cyclist (NOT drop handle bars) and get equally furious when theses guys arrogantly ride two or more abreast. Like bad drivers who give drivers a bad name, equally, they give cyclists a bad name.
@larryandpaul I met J Vine once while working on a Panorama episode. Anyway, not satisfied with the lunch provided Vine asked for money so he could purchase a more upmarket sandwich, upon his return he divulged that the sandwich shop owners did not charge him to which I asked 'did they know who you were?', this went straight over his enormous head, much to Sophie Rayworths's amusement.
I was once in the presence of one of these divine beings in Edinburgh. The divine being was brought low when he was referred to as a "paedo in a Speedo" by a group of migratory Scottish youth.
*AMERICAN PICK UP TRUCK DRIVERS* should break away from humanity in order to balance this out, we have the hyper human cyclists and then the, I do not want to say "sub human" but I cant think of another word, shall we just call them "anti cyclist post humans" that buy F150 pickup trucks that are literally bigger than WW2 tanks...
Yeah, they're awful. And ineffective: for all those sins, they kill 0 people in traffic every year, around the planet, while drivers of typical American trucks, even when (occasionally) driving legally, still kill a lot of people, directly through accidents and indirectly through pollution, just because of how awesome and deadly the vehicle is.
@@florinadrian5174 - I live in Burgas Bulgaria, a 15 minute city where cycling is the norm, walking, scooters but suddenly there is a trend among young men to import an American pick up truck. They are INSANITY sized things and I hope they get banned soon, they cause total chaos and mayhem, our streets are used by everyone from mothers with pushchairs to people in wheelchairs and its just pandemonium as people are trying to help disabled people onto the pavement as one massive w4nker drives a 3 ton pickup truck down the street taking up both sides of the road. Im a 5'8" 173cm guy, the bonnet on these things cones up to my neck. The majority of women and lower than the bonnet. I have no idea how they are legal on a normal driving licence. They have a front and rear blind spot of about 8m
@@piccalillipit9211 Yeah, they are awful. They are legal under the American law in a perverse way because they were classified as professional, work vehicles and thus exempted from safety requirements of normal civilian cars. But then the car industry discovered that they are making much more profit selling these monsters than a sedan and they kept marketing them like crazy. The fossil fuel bastards love them because they consume a lot and thus they joined the marketing and PR with their unlimited funds. And now they came to Europe. Here is more info about this absurdity: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jN7mSXMruEo.html The point about blind spots is very well illustrated.
I'm waiting for the unhealthy alliance of cyclists and the can't be arsed to be policed illegal e-scooter folk to team up against German car drivers for the ultimate showdown of who the roads belong to
Well, the cyclist that can't be arsed is clearly from the UK & the German car driver is... anyway in between these two is the Netherlands, so for the answer go to the youtube channel of our Canadian judge Not Just Bikes.
Brilliant as always. Love the Easter egg joke of the Tim Vine picture. I'd suggest cutting out the pause to read the script though. Perhaps hide the cut (if necessary) with a faked 'video glitch' frozen picture for half a second (it is meant to be a live broadcast). Other than that I'm always amazed at the quality of your humour and production values. Keep up the great work.
I`m a cyclist, but also a motorist. Not sure how this effects my species. Never likely to listen to jeremy vine anyway. Also, even if he does become the king of cyclists, it wont be for long. He always seems to be moments from death.
Politcians are fair game, they put themselves up for it and can hit back. Cyclists arent. They have no way to hit back. Demonising any powerless group in society is poor humour that as a society we ought to have grown out of. Disabled people, black people, women etc. - all have been groups exploited in humour. Maybe Jeremy Vine is a fair target but not cyclists in general. You guys should and do know better. Political satire is what you do best imho.
Seriously? I mean really seriously? Cyclists a minority group with no voice? You mean the ones that lobbied Newcastle Council to spend millions on a cycle lane they don't use? And what about the consultation on the Hierarchy of Road Users? Remember that? Where the government thought that the opinion of a cycle club consisting of 10 people carried the same weight as Stobart Haulage. (A hierarchy which I now note most cyclists ignore when it comes to pedestrians). Oh, and I can't seem to come on here without tripping over the channel of some holier than thou, lycra clad 🔔🔚posting videos of poor driving whilst cycling through a red light. I'm not anti cyclist. I have one myself. I'm anti cyclists who believe they have more right to the road than everyone else - and this is what this video is aimed at.
@@imSatnav the whole point is they have no unified public identity to hit back with. Its not about cycling, its about attacking a group of people (ANY group of people) making fun of them to get laughs out of people who are not them. It “others” whole groups of people and encourages division and hate. These guys are smart enough to know this.
As someone who moved from a car to a bike this year I still had a chuckle. Only thing I would say is that there is a difference between those who spend crazy money on bikes for high speed aerodynamic road cycling and those who just want to go shopping or get somewhere in safety without having to drive all the time. Also cyclists thankfully do have a voice (there's quite a lot of active travel and cycling campaign groups).
@@josephfredbill Hold on. If they have no unified identity how can they be a group? Because by the very dint of being a group gives people a unified identity. If they are not a group then how can people attack them as a group? And no it doesn't create hate and division. This video is aimed fairly and squarely at a particular sub set of cyclists who behave like entitled w⚓s. Now that is nothing to do with the fact that they are cyclists, but more to do with the fact that they are, on the whole, full time entitled w⚓s who happen to be part-time cyclists.
@imSatnav We. If you ARE a cyclist I think you mean we. That's the problem. I normally love the guys. But this feeds the narrative that 'we' is binary and that gives agency to behavior on both "sides" which doesn't end well. The roads are routes of passage for all, anyone using them, including Jeremy Vine or haulage companies or pedestrians should be constantly vigilant and respect the other users regardless of what the legal or perceived rights are.
Gotta love a Lycra clad hypocrite, cycling two or three abreast at the weekend, then driving like the end of a bell through the week in an Audi or bm 🤣
I've got a challenge for you, if you're brave enough to accept it: The next week, preferably a month but i don't think you're strong enough, try to bike everywhere you can. Find out what the rules are in your council with regards to where you're supposed to cycle, because some want you to share the road/footpath & like to change things up every street about halfway, just for shits 'n giggles, to make things more difficult. Now, when you've done this please report back after you've hauled the shopping, brought the children to school, rode to work, the pub & the hairdresser & say how easy your local council made everything, because then i would like to know where you live & if it's affordable.
