Cyclist filmed riding wrong way on motorway slip road … while texting

Following yesterday’s video of a cyclist going the wrong way up a road in Scotland, another rider has been filmed doing exactly the same thing – except this time, it was on a motorway slip road and the man was using his mobile phone at the time.

> Video: Van driver has to swerve to avoid cyclist on wrong side of the road

An idiot on the road early today. Cycling while travelling the wrong way on a #Glasgow motorway slip road while texting #clown pic.twitter.com/M8AE8fWPQh

— AM 5-1 (@annemarie6377) April 13, 2017

The video was shot on a dashcam during morning rush hour today with the person who uploaded a picture of it to Twitter branding the rider a “clown” as he rode against the flow of traffic that was heading into the city centre.

It was taken on the slip road leading from Waterloo Street onto the M8 – the same motorway where, last month, a cyclist described as “fearful and in tears” was filmed riding – this time with the flow of traffic – across the city’s Kingston Bridge.

> "Fearful and in tears" cyclist filmed riding on Glasgow's M8 motorway

Cyclists are banned from motorways under Rule 253 of the Highway Code, although it is far from rare for riders to end up on them, possibly due to ignorance of the law, inadequate signage or – as in this example we reported on last week – because they decide to use the hard shoulder of the M56 in Lancashire to take a short cut.

> Cyclist fined for riding on M65 near Blackburn

​Even the pros can get caught out – at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, UAE Team Emirates rider Andrea Guardini was escorted off a motorway in France by Gendarmes as he sought to ride to the finish after abandoning the race.

> Lost in France – rider ends up on motorway after abandoning Paris-Roubaix (+ video)