Cyclist seen riding on highway at high speed (With video)

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

A cyclist was seen circulating on the expressway at high speed before the exit to Câmara de Lobos in the direction of Ribeira Brava-Funchal.

Remember that bicycles are prohibited on this road.

The moment was captured in this video.

From Agora Madeira

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26 Responses

  1. He has multiple videos on YouTube riding throughout the island on his €10,000 + bicycle. It’s a risk but he is highly skilled.

    1. Highly skilled at what ? I’d describe him as brain dead. Just waiting for the body to follow.

      1. Highly skilled at riding a bicycle. If he were brain dead, he’d lack the cognitive ability to ride the bicycle. Watch the video and report back if you think he has skill or not. Never said he was smart.

        1. I shouldn’t have used the expression brain dead, but stupid, silly, unintelligent, ignorant, dense, mindless foolish, law breaking. Having watched the video I have to agree he seems to be skilful at riding a bike, then again so is my 8 year old nephew, the only difference being my eight year old nephew has enough common sense not to ride on a motorway. On looking at the video again I noticed where he keeps his brains.

          1. George, i agree with your assessment of the individual’s mindset and lack of capacity to reasonably assess risk. I’d also suggest you immediately seek out an agent, manager, and sponsorship for your 8 year old nephew. If he has that skill at such a young age, he is a prodigy and will take the cycling world by storm. Congrats.

            1. Already measured for the Yellow Jersey and an intellectual as well. I wish. Sorry E, the eight year old cycling prodigy with 10 A Levels I introduced for effect, it’s called over exaggeration as I’ve said a million times before. I enjoy the clash of words.

            2. Already measured for the Yellow Jersey and an intellectual as well. Sorry E, the eight year old cycling prodigy with 10 A Levels I introduced for effect, it’s called over exaggeration as I’ve said a million times before.

    2. Skilled or unskilled, it isn’t his right to disregard the law and put everyone in danger. Go cycle somewhere dangerous where other people aren’t affected by his actions. I hope nature deals with him fairly.

      1. So you’d be fine if he had a motor on the bike? In the video, it appears as though he is maintaining his lane and keeping up with speed.

        1. You seem to have missed the line,
          “Remember that bicycles are prohibited on this road.”
          I’d being wasting my time explaining why they are prohibited but would be interested in yours or his justification in doing what he is.

          1. I didn’t miss that line, I’m not justifying why he should be on the road, simply asking would the same be said if he were riding on a motorbike while maintaining legal speed and staying within his lane. Also, I sure hope no one never exceeds the speed limit by even 1 kph because speeding is prohibited and puts everyone at risk. Go speed on a closed track.

  2. Why do so many cyclists think that the road laws don’t apply to them? Similarly the laws of the state and even the laws of physics do not apply to them?

    1. Why debate the rights and wrongs.
      Clearly he knows he is breaking the law and does not care.
      Quite likely if the police saw him they would not do anything.
      Only last month I was behind a motorbike, the individual driving with no helmet, from Anadia shopping to Reeds Palace, no police presence at any time, no problem.

  3. What a moron. One of these days, natural selection will take its course and won’t be in his favour…I bet if he had been hit (it’s only luck that prevented this) and someone had rightly said “What do you expect doing such a stupid thing?” there’d be outrage…stupid people like this don’t seem to realise they’re not only endangering themselves, which is fine for me, but everyone driving. A car swerves to avoid hitting them, bangs into other cars, causes a huge accident, death, injury, chaos. Selfish mofos like this, we can do without.

    1. So is a motorized bike acceptable? Motorcycle? Would you say the same if “natural selection” wiped out a person on a motorbike obeying the traffic laws?

      1. No, it’s not much better. Riding a motorcycle is also for people with no sense of the danger they are in and unnecessary risk they are taking, but at least they aren’t blatantly disregarding the law and a motor is less likely to fail than muscles which frequently DO fail and cramp at the worst moment. I probably wouldn’t be as harsh because people are misled by laws to think it’s “safe” if they use a helmet but it’s still stupid and I’m never surprised by horrific motorcycle crashes. It’s not a matter of “if” but “when”.

        1. You assume that a Harley Davidson or a 35 year old motorbike is more reliable than professional cyclist’s leg muscle on a state of the art €10,000 racing bike?

    2. I suspect he has no insurance to pay for any accident he might cause either, even though his bike cost 10k ?. Insurance companies won’t pay out.

      1. He wouldn’t need the coverage because he gets paid by the company to ride the bikes given to him free.

        1. So he’s breaking the law in pursuit of financial gain, doesn’t that make him a professional criminal? But seriously, he may be getting a free bike and appearance money but sooner or later there will be an accident. Because of the speed of the vehicles on that road, a serious one. It may be his fault, it may be the motorist, certainly if he didn’t break the law by being on the road, then there would be no accident. Leaving aside the loss and anguish, who, when this happens is going to recompense the motorist? The cyclist, the company supplying the bike and paying him? E, I love our argument but at the end of the day someone is going to get hurt because the guy thinks he is above the law.

          1. George, what if the company also made a €20,000 street legal bike with the same dimensions and an electric motor. He would not be breaking the law, maintaining his lane and proper speed. You’d be fine with it?

            1. E, I’m not too sure about the regs. relating to electric bikes and M Ways in Madeira but in the UK they would not be allowed. Petrol powered are only allowed above a certain CC. It’s not the bike or it’s manufacturer that’s breaking laws, it’s the cyclist and apart from his narcistic attitude I can’t see what he gets out of it and yes, since Covid closed down meetings of like and unlike minds, I appreciate the adult conversations.

  4. I wish this skinny, undermuscled child would find another way to prove his masculinity.

  5. They have just changed laws in UK for cycling, does not include going on motorways! And now they are addressing all the problems cyclists create by riding on pavements,ignoring red traffic lights, not being insured, cyclists ” celebrated ” their new found freedoms, only very quickly to be faced with,what should have been the case years ago, identification marking and insurance, carrot first seems to have been applied.
    Oh and yes, cyclists did think it was ok to use the motorway a couple years ago, ( they were from europe if memory serves me well) they were arrested post haste)

  6. Well were I live in Sintra village they are every in the motorways and the small roads it is the land of cyclists . In Sintra they even go in the footpaths that are supposed to be to people they don’t use their bells and many times they pass by you very fast without any consideration for people that are hiking . And the same is happening in Madeira in on hiking that I did Vereda das Funduras, Portela to Maroços, Machico that was small narrow passages and cliffs when I was hiking a group of cyclists did across in high speed without any concern about the narrow passage and the cliff despite begin very clear in the begin of the hiking that cyclist to allowed to do that type of circuit .

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