Live blog: W Mids commuter’s terrifying encounter with masked gang, cyclist tackled by police after trying to “diffuse” suspicious package + more
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Tue, May 22, 2018 13:46
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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imajez 7 hours ago
It's far less about finding challenging trails, it's about finding trails full stop. Only around 22% of paths in UK are bridleways and thus legal to ride. Here in Sheffield/Peak District, only 11% of paths are bike legal. So you either ride footpaths or ride on road. Seeing that the biggest benefit of off road riding is no dangerous drivers, roads are often not a real option. Plus, most of the distinctions as to what is a footpath and what is a bridleway is purely arbitrary. Particularly as most paths to most places would have been used by by folk on horseback.
Clem Fandango 7 hours ago
No my friend you are, as usual, picking & choosing arguments to suit your current jab & forgetting to retain the receipts. How are we supposed to take you seriously Nigel when your alter egos and posts are riddled with such glaring inconsistencies? Meaningful Journeys? Saw them at the Astoria back in '97. They were supporting Contrarian Troll & blew them off the stage.
galibiervelo 7 hours ago
JUST Awful. Rest in Peace
galibiervelo 7 hours ago
JUST Awful. Rest in Peace.
chrisonabike 9 hours ago
Clearly "but priorities", but the poor granularity of some of the stats is another thing which works against improving transport safety.
chrisonabike 9 hours ago
Was this a Fifa-style offer eg. "We're planning to come and make money * anyway, but if you make it official you get a cut"? * Probably from venture capital but at any rate mostly not from people directly paying for a ride. Point being: the priorities don't align well with "contributing to the good of the place".
chrisonabike 9 hours ago
It was a lane, and indeed a "mandatory" one, and does have intermittent blocks and wands, although I'm pretty sure those don't make a cycle track unless continuous? (I admit that I'm hazy on the exact Uk definitions but I suspect the definitions are hazy also)? As you note lanes are out, but cycle tracks may be in, if you're in class 2 or 3. So the chap was out of order, but I am more inclined to blame the lack of provision first and then the rules. This was in a part of town where there's a massive space between buildings, not even filled by what was 2 lanes in each direction, with median...
Rendel Harris 9 hours ago
@belugabob Much of it down to effectively bribery I'm afraid, with no overall authority for controlling them London's councils struck individual deals - £1.3M with Forest bikes in Richmond, a staggering £93M over five years with Lime and Voi in Haringey, for example. Can't kill the golden egg goose!
Surreyrider 9 hours ago
This is beyond sad. Condolences to all who knew him.
5 thoughts on “Live blog: W Mids commuter’s terrifying encounter with masked gang, cyclist tackled by police after trying to “diffuse” suspicious package + more”
In fairness the guy did
In fairness the guy did manage to “diffuse” the contents of the backpack.
What a bunch of wasters those
What a bunch of wasters those cops are.
Arrive too late – after the guy had emptied all of the contents and was walking away – and when they finally show up, they themselves diffused a situation that wasn’t ‘fused’ by launching him from behind.
Hope the useless twats are sacked, especially the wannabe linebacker. But the civilian was a bit swarthy-looking so they’ll probably be promoted.
davel wrote:
This.
I was waiting for a train a couple of years ago, someone had obviously forgot to pick up one of their bags, I picked it up and handed it to the station staff as lost property, they went into fucking meltdown like i’d handed them a nail bomb. I opened the bag and oh look no fucking bomb.
Some twat stuck some old computer circuit bits on the outside of a coffee mug last year I think in Stevenage, again meltdown and this time bomb squad
More chance of being eaten by a cougar apparently!
On the Cycling Professor’s
On the Cycling Professor’s twitter photo: can we buy those car-sized frames as a clip-on? Remember, we’re holding up ‘real’ traffic anyway and causing congestion, so we might as well claim our rightful area on the road…
That Conan Doyle quote
That Conan Doyle quote reminds me of Celia, Celia by Adrian Mitchell