1<\/p>\n Jeremy Vine has been accused of setting back the cause of cycling with his online clips highlighting bad driving<\/p>\n Keen cyclist Jeremy<\/a>, 59, has spent years uploading footage of dangerous drivers he encounters on his London<\/a> commute \u2014 but is giving it up to escape trolls.<\/p>\n ITV\u2019s<\/a> Ned said his intentions were good, that he was usually right and he was backed by statistics \u2014 but that he was harming cycling<\/a>.<\/p>\n He wrote: “Jeremy is almost always right. What he says, 99 times out of a hundred, is correct. <\/p>\n “He flags up dangerous driving, and explains why it is threatening to a person riding a bike. The statistics, of course, make his case for him.<\/p>\n “But, and, to my mind this is a serious but: just because he\u2019s right, it doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s right. <\/p>\n “Respectfully to Jeremy, whose intentions were impeccable, I think he got it wrong. Here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n “Cycling is fun. It is liberating. It is a tremendous, life-changing activity. It puts a smile on your face. Jeremy\u2019s videos, frankly, would put the fear of God into you.”<\/p>\n He continued: “If you were vaguely considering making the \u201cmodal shift\u201d as active travel geeks refer to ditching the car in favour of a bike (something I have literally done), would Jeremy\u2019s polemical videos persuade you, or put you off? Would they be more or less likely to encourage you?<\/p>\n “My experience of criss-crossing London by bike over the last twenty years is far more benign than Jeremy\u2019s, or at least the edited version of Jeremy\u2019s that he presents online.<\/p>\n “I tend to ride on back routes where I can, have got to know the safer roads, and, by and large, I don\u2019t experience the extreme levels of danger that are presented, so frequently, in Jeremy\u2019s videos.<\/p>\n “That\u2019s not so say it doesn\u2019t happen, but not as often as his presentation suggests.”<\/p>\n This comes after football thug Joey Barton apologised to Jeremy<\/a> and agreed to pay him \u00a375,000 after branding him a “bike nonce”.<\/p>\n![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/newspress-collage-rnum36xgq-1746048055407.jpg\")
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