Orpington Cyclist
@CycleOrpington
Followers
991
Following
3,195
Media
708
Statuses
3,020
Cycling round and about the town of Orpington.
Orpington
Joined December 2020
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
#WeAreSeriesEP10
• 478829 Tweets
PondPhuwin WeAre EP10
• 172464 Tweets
#HAPPYHAECHANDAY
• 128924 Tweets
#해차니_생일_와떠여
• 95089 Tweets
クロリンデ
• 88664 Tweets
ファンタジースプリングス
• 75796 Tweets
ディズニー
• 70115 Tweets
東京ダービー
• 63759 Tweets
WeAre WinnySatang EP10
• 42032 Tweets
バレーボール
• 37902 Tweets
#庭ラジ
• 36354 Tweets
#JO1ANNX
• 31415 Tweets
ラムジェット
• 30786 Tweets
対象の3作品
• 30433 Tweets
Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente
• 22873 Tweets
ドローン
• 20721 Tweets
フルセット
• 15398 Tweets
NEVER LET GO D-1
• 15296 Tweets
Meral Akşener
• 14621 Tweets
魔神任務
• 13406 Tweets
危機契約
• 13021 Tweets
男子バレー
• 12857 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
Dear Twitter, I hope to be a source of information about what it's like to cycle around Orpington and beyond. Kind regards, the Orpington Cyclist.
4
0
10
When we had our third child we bought a Komatsu 930E. It's very safe and bigger than both a tank and a F750. My children are very safe. Pedestrians can be wiped off the wheels fairly easily.
When we had our third child I bought an F750. It’s very safe and built like a tank.
We always had crossovers and large SUVs which have no chance against giant trucks.
The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.
25
186
4K
99
2K
23K
Well done Sadiq Khan! A total vindication of your policies on ULEZ, LTNs, free school meals, 20mph zones, and cycling and active travel. And a total rejection of the racist, polluting, dishonest and scare-mongering facebook tactics of Susan Hall and the Tories. Well done Sadiq!!
302
718
5K
Why drive on the road when there's a perfectly good grass verge to fuck up?
125
32
476
Finally, Jackie Weaver gets the tube map recognition she deserves.
7
57
436
Interesting. Can we also remove roads from car SatNavs where people have been killed by drivers?
36
30
387
How come there is so much money spent on road resurfacing, but nothing ever spent on our crappy, bumpy cycle paths
@LBofBromley
191
13
355
@Councillorsuzie
@RishiSunak
@TheSun
And will you take responsibility for any road deaths due to 30mph collisions on roads that you remove the 20mph limits from?
37
36
180
Where can I report an illegally parked tractor, destroying a grass verge?
69
0
115
@adamtranter
Of all the people I know who I consider to have a "good character", I don't think any of them drive at 98mph. Not even on a motorway, let alone a residential road.
4
0
110
Well done Gammons, it only took you the best part of a decade but you got there in the end. Great job
223
14
97
@GarethBaconMP
You literally campaigned against ULEZ, and for putting dirty air in children's lungs. Not very green, eh?
2
6
90
@DAVID_LAWES
Yes, you can't see that bright flashing light at all can you?
@Specsavers
- one for you!! 🤣🤣
1
1
87
@roadcc
This is bollocks, there is no point in additional cycling proficiency if it isn't matched by safer routes for children to cycle on.
5
3
87
@EnemyCoastAhead
@LBRUT
@metpoliceuk
@roadcc
@KingstonCycling
I was hit by a driver turning right some years ago (before I had a camera so no footage). In my case there was nothing obscuring their view at all, they just turned, and then fled the scene after. Since then I'm super-wary of cars turning right. But drivers fault ultimately!
11
1
87
Every driver who uses a phone behind the wheel should reflect on what message this gives to children who will be driving in the years to come. How many phone drivers did Molly see, how normalised was it to her?
23
9
80
Rishi Sunak to announce a £8bn investment in a new national cycle network to combat the "War on Cyclists" 🇬🇧🚴
21
9
80
@SurreyRS
I don't doubt the offense, but in future please trim your videos to show the actual offence. If I was to submit a similar video of a driver to the met, it would be rejected. Also I do encourage all cyclists to obey red lights unless it is to avoid a clear danger.
6
2
72
@d_gilly6
@EamonRyan
@cllr_ginokenny
You have half the road available to overtake, just wait for a gap?
0
1
69
Mr Benn convention blocking the cycle path in Hyde Park today 😀
9
5
61
@pedalmania1
@theJeremyVine
@AndyCoxDCS
Please report the white van, that's appalling driving and that driver should be off the road.
1
1
59
@MPIainDS
How many lives will this save compared to equal effort putting forward an amendment to make speed limiters mandatory in new cars?
7
2
58
@CitizenUddin
@metpoliceuk
Perhaps they assumed the sun was low in the sky and dazzled the driver who then didn't notice the pavement, so it's all fine?
1
0
56
@kelvmackenzie
Higher than average?
Well done Sadiq Khan! A total vindication of your policies on ULEZ, LTNs, free school meals, 20mph zones, and cycling and active travel. And a total rejection of the racist, polluting, dishonest and scare-mongering facebook tactics of Susan Hall and the Tories. Well done Sadiq!!
302
718
5K
0
4
55
You have not spoken on this yet -
@GarethBaconMP
this is the time you need to speak out. You have sided with the anti-ULEZ criminals for too long. Look what you have done!! 😡
First they started with criminal damage. Then they move to terrorism with an explosive device. Now the anti-ULEZ mob have put a 6-year-old girl and an adult in hospital.
34
50
119
8
11
52
@DawnWestgate
By this logic you would prefer Gary Lineker as PM as he has 9 million followers? 🤷��♂️
2
0
50
@MaryPri81540130
@mark_gb
@CyclingInASkirt
Did you not realise that bicycles do not run on petrol? Pedestrians don't pay tax on walking either.
1
1
48
Why is it that the anti-cyclist brigade tend to be so prone to violent thought?
22
2
46
@peterwalker99
I wonder what's next - health policies based on WEF conspiracies? Defence policy based decided by flat earthers? 🤔
3
1
47
Now it has finally happened.
@GarethBaconMP
you have sided with the anti-ULEZ criminals for too long. I have never seen any children at your protests, who you are hell-bent on breathing dirty air. And now one of them is in hospital. Shame on you!! 🤬
26
15
47
So you need to be at McDonalds at 8am tomorrow for work, OK?
4
3
44
@tvprp
The lenient sentence is indeed distressing. Why not give a longer jail sentence? Pathetic
0
0
41
But I thought floating bus stops were the issue?
11
1
42
To all fellow cyclists running cameras - a huge thank you, there is still so much to do, so many more drivers to report, but we will not stop until the roads are safe 🫡
1,859 cyclists and 1,327 pedestrians were injured by hit-and-run drivers in London in 2021
25
103
195
33
1
37
@Mark_J_Harper
@Councillorsuzie
@MPIainDS
Please can we have sensible penalties in place for drivers as well.. who kill and injure several orders of magnitude more people than cyclists.
0
4
36
Don't worry, non-Tesla owners. You can park like a twat as well 👍
12
1
33
@APPGCW
Everyone who feels safe enough to cycle has already bought a bicycle. We need to make cycling feel safer to get everyone else to buy a bike.
2
1
34
@cyclegaz
It might be a "should" to stop for a pedestrian waiting to cross, but isn't it a "must" to not overtake a vehicle that has already stopped for a pedestrian?
6
1
32
@venusianbbe
The war on motorists is really heating up, isn't it. All those innocent drivers..
0
1
32
@APPGCW
WTAF? How is this person safe to have on the road, ever again? Also pleaded guilty of planning to steal cars!
1
2
32
@Grrysang
@LBofBromley
You might not believe this, you may want to sit down first. Cyclists pay tax too!
6
0
32
@willnorman
@thamesclippers
How much will it cost? Why can't we have a nice walking/cycling river crossing like a modern city should have?
2
0
30
@ScottBentonMP
Other replies have already provided the evidence you requested. Or you could ask a child which of the following they would prefer.
1
3
30
Is there ever any parking enforcement at Orpington Station? It is like this every day!!
@Se_Railway
@LBofBromley
@YPLAC
2
4
29
@Lesley__King
@KirstyLewin
Since they have identified an issue, see if they would therefore support a School Street
1
0
27
@APPGCW
I'm not sure you can have it both ways - allowing people with mental health issues to drive, but then not being able to send them to jail for dangerous driving. Not sure what having children has anything to do with it. People with kids are immune from jail time?
1
1
28
@WMPolice
Only 12 months for that? So he'll be out after 6 months? No wonder he's called "Freeman". What an insult to the cyclist and their loved ones. Road violence has to end, and pathetically short sentences are evidently no significant deterrent.
3
0
27
And he lives in a 15 minute neighbourhood. Look! Shops, a park, a hospital and even a train station within a short walk. How un-British of him!
0
7
26
@DulwichRoads
@metpoliceuk
@MPSRTPC
@Southwark_News
@fredacowell
@Cavanaghj
@lambeth_council
@DulwichSociety
Narrow paths, the brand new enemy in the war on motorists.
1
0
24
@Codser
@The_NFRSA
The car is on the wrong side of the road altogether.. should not be overtaking at all if there is oncoming road users!
1
0
24
@danhollandnews
Looks like Rishi is going to need his seven bins to put the Network North plans into 🗑️
0
3
25
@NeilSalt2019
@StreathamLTN
@BBCTomEdwards
@GrayTwg
@lambeth_council
In that case, please clarify the objective in your choice of background on that leaflet?
1
0
24
After all the tractor protests, all the "blade runners" cutting down traffic lights, all the promises to get rid of ULEZ on Day 1, all the photoshoots, the Tories achieved a massive... Zero percent swing in Bromley. Take note
@GarethBaconMP
@Keir_Starmer
@LouHaigh
!!
🚨 BREAKING: Susan Hall wins Bexley & Bromley
🔵 CON: 111,216
🔴 LAB: 48,952
🟠 LDM: 10,111
🟣 RFM: 9,243
🟢 GRN: 8,600
🟣 GALLAGHER: 3,710
⚪️ CAMPBELL: 2,727
No swing compared to 2021
67
77
758
2
2
24
And another vehicle in the mandatory cycle lane shortly afterwards
0
2
23
@MPSRTPC
Maybe try enforcing the speed limits, rather than asking children to wear bits of plastic? The car below is going much faster than 20mph, which you claim is the speed limit!
0
1
21
@TonySmith220165
@MikeyCycling
@theJeremyVine
@vernonkay
@BBCCiN
@BBCRadio2
Thank you for spreading the message. Every little thing we can do for road safety is appreciated 👍
0
0
22
Neither Orpington, nor the country, wants another Tory government.
To remove the Tories, please vote either Labour, or possibly Reform if you are batshit-crazy.
We can do this.
Thank you
4
5
22
Car parked in the mandatory cycle lane on Crofton Road, forcing me into traffic and also blocking the next section behind the bus stop. Who should I report this to?
4
4
22
@NankivellDean
@LBofBromley
Let me guess, you also think car drivers pay road tax that pays for the roads? There are so many of you out there today!
4
0
19
@willnorman
This is near me! And our MP
@GarethBaconMP
still refuses to condemn any of this. What an absolute turd of an MP we have 🤬
0
1
20
@carlafrancome
You missed the bit where they trample all over the Chislehurst War Memorial
Today we had Batman turn up to help defeat Khan's crime of the century in Greater London - ULEZ expansion. His batmobile used for fighting crime was not ULEZ exempt. A bit like the 100s of police cars that now have to be changed, as their ULEZ exemption is running out.
113
24
83
2
2
20
@_RileyLeachUK
@LBofBromley
If you really thought that, then presumably you'd be in favour of greater expenditure on cycle path maintenance, so cyclists wouldn't be in "the middle of the road" holding people up? 🤷♂️
1
0
18
Susan Hall forgets her disguise as she votes in London today.
0
0
18
@00Piep
CO2 from the cake eating fueling my bike doesn't count because I would eat the cake anyway 🍰😀
1
1
18