EP. 103 ~ Nickel Potter and the Dodge Ram Truck Lady picture
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
A couple weeks ago Nickel Potter and a 100 or so other cyclists were participating in the Rule of Three in NW Arkansas. They had just turned onto a remote gravel road in the Ozarks when a lady in a Dodge Ram came up behind them and when the cyclist got over to the side of the road she gunned it around them, losing control, and ultimately rolling her truck. After checking to make sure she was okay Nickel did the next logical thing which was to take a picture and post it on instagram.
When I saw the image originally I laughed and shared it to my stories and spent the next couple of days seeing it re-shared within the cycling community. Then I was on Reddit and his image was posted on several different subs with thousands of likes and comments and there were link to news articles as well. Thats when I realized the true impact of this picture. It broke out of the cycling community and found itself floating all over the internet which stirred up a long of conversations, most that I read were mostly positive towards the cyclist which was a nice surprise.
So today, we talk to the guy who took that iconic picture, hear his side, and chat about our rolls as cyclist when we are out on the roads and representing the community as a whole.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | As always, my name is Patrick, and I'm your host. |
| 0:06.3 | And on today's episode, we are going to go way back in time to about two weeks ago |
| 0:13.2 | when Nicol Potter posted an image on Instagram of a lady who was essentially pressed up against the front window shield |
| 0:23.7 | of her Dodge Ram pickup that was laying on its side because just moments before she had |
| 0:31.0 | sped past a group of cyclists in Arkansas and then promptly went on to roll her truck and then Nick Nicol took a |
| 0:42.8 | picture and it kind of broke the internet. I definitely shared that image as soon as I saw it. |
| 0:48.9 | I got a little chuckle out of it and just like many of y'all did, I'm sure if you're in the bike scene and you're on |
| 0:55.8 | social media, it was almost impossible to escape that image. Now I know we live in a 24-hour news |
| 1:02.8 | cycle, and this is like ancient news at this point, but if you'll remember way back into your |
| 1:08.6 | brain archives, maybe you'll recall that image, which I think should be an NFT. |
| 1:14.0 | I still have no idea what an NFT is. |
| 1:16.9 | People are telling me I should get into them. |
| 1:19.6 | And I don't know anything about that, but I think that if I was going to have an NFT, this is the NFT that I would want. So yeah, I didn't really |
| 1:29.1 | think too much about it whenever I saw the image other than just kind of think it was funny |
| 1:34.5 | and really appreciating the instant karma aspect of the image. But it wasn't until I was on Reddit |
| 1:42.2 | the next day and I saw it pop up, I don't know, |
| 1:46.9 | four or five different times on different subreddits. |
| 1:49.4 | It made the front page of Reddit. |
| 1:51.1 | And then I saw it link to some news articles. |
| 1:54.5 | And I was like, okay, this is broken out of the bicycling, you know, stratosphere. |
| 2:00.2 | And it has landed outside, and it is now |
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