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Lights, camera, door open? As an experienced road cyclist who spends hours training on UK roads every week, Paul knows that however safely you ride, you can’t control what the driver behind you will do. That proved true on the A224 at Polhill, where a driver overtook him despite double white lines and an oncoming […]
Patience isn’t a virtue for every driver, as UpRider Olivier learned on a quiet country road near Vourles, France, when a car overtook blindly and forced his riding partner to swerve aside. He didn’t report the incident, as his own experience reporting similar incidents hasn’t been positive, and his hope for safer roads rests on […]
Every UpRider has a story. Gareth’s involves a driver who seemingly had more money than sense: a £300,000 Aston Martin. Out on a short evening ride, he was cut off by the luxury car, just one example of the abuse and unwanted attention he says cyclists face more and more on the road. UpRide turns […]
Mike was a couple of miles from home, heading down a steep descent, when a car overtook him with oncoming traffic already approaching. He spent the next few seconds waiting to be cut back into. It is not the worst thing that has happened to him on a bike, a driver once crossed into his […]
It was a Sunday morning group ride in Portland, ten minutes from home, when a Range Rover driver decided the traffic lights ahead were more important than the cyclists in his way. He braked hard, nearly took one out, and then had the nerve to smirk about it. What followed was one of the most […]
The Burnett Inland Rail Trail is a work in progress, and sometimes that means connecting via roads that were never designed with cyclists in mind. For these two touring riders, a 3km stretch of the Bunya Highway was unavoidable. What happened on that stretch was entirely avoidable. UpRide turns daily rides into data that drives […]
It was the last few kilometres of a 40km solo ride, a junction this UpRider has ridden through more times than he can count, and a young driver who was looking the wrong way at exactly the wrong moment. UpRide turns daily rides into data that drives change. Every UpRider has a story. Here is […]
Sometimes the best cycling safety innovation costs about three dollars and looks completely ridiculous. After a driver squeezed past within inches on his morning commute, this UpRider went home, installed a pool noodle on his bike, and two days later watched it do exactly what it was designed to do. Here is his story, and […]
Mark has had a motorist deliberately try to run him over before. So when a bus driver gave him a dangerously close pass, he knew exactly what to do, and he didn’t stop at filing a Crime Stoppers report. He went straight to the bus company, footage in hand. UpRide turns daily rides into data […]
Not every dangerous incident on the road involves a distracted driver or a close pass. Sometimes it is an overloaded dump truck with an unsecured tailgate, doing 50mph past a group of cyclists on a quiet country road, spilling rock across the tarmac as it goes. This UpRider had his cameras rolling, and knew exactly […]