Editor Ian Macgill says piece in which he called for pavement cyclists to be taught a lesson ‘a piece of whimsy’Cyclists have called for a boycott of businesses advertising in a magazine that suggested stringing up razor wire to garrotte people riding bikes on the pavement. The editorial in Grapevine magazine, which is delivered free to 23,000 houses in Sheffield each month, recounted a conversation between the editor, Ian Macgill, and an “old chum” in which the latter said pavement cyclists needed to be “taught a lesson” using wire at head height. He claims acts of “trail sabotage” – where routes are booby-trapped with wire or other objects – are a regular hazard for mountain bikers in Sheffield and beyond. A number of cyclists across the UK have been hurt by wires in recent years. He repeated a call from the magazine to make number plates mandatory on bikes “so that we can photograph and report cyclists if they are cycling on the pavement”.

Source: The Guardian June 18, 2019 14:13 UTC