Chris Akrigg. Skills aplenty.

@FragileBoris Sounds like your dad is a crap driver and you're a crap person by helping him get away with it by exploiting the cops' laziness. Then again if you pal about with ex-coppers that tells anyone decent everything they need to know about you. There's a reason they're called Filth.

Don't know the site nor all the considerations around it, and there's usually a long story... But my response to those who say "but *this* isn't the right place" is the same: OK, so how *are* you providing for the safe * and convenient movement of vulnerable road users? * Including 'social safety'. I mostly love a green route, but some at some times may not be savoury, and for some people they're as "impossible" as nipping across a dual carriageway.

Shurely etymologically if they're living along the roads then they are real pikeys, not fake ones? (Although not wanting to tread on anyone's stopping-place regarding reclamation of a term of abuse...)

@Nigel Thanks for the confirmation that you are indeed Nigel, road.cc mods have declared that any time you attempt to return you will be removed so enjoy your latest pathetic little run, you'll be going the way of your other twenty-eight personas soon.

@Rendel Harris take time to breathe in your rant! Paragraphs help. Oceandweller is perfectly entitled to give his lived experience of London life without being shouted down. "Viciously aggressive inhabitants"? Yep, checks out!..... After all, here's a guy (according to Gemini) who has such a potty mouth that his own case got thrown out of court for being viciously aggressive on his own video.

@FragileBoris Needless to say they didn’t give me details of the cyclist or pursued the £60 fine. Didn’t have any reply at all…. Apart from the bit about 'no response at all from the police', what a load of fabricated tripe! We don't need to tart up our videos because they're bad and incriminating enough already. Why not contact Lancashire Constabulary with your suspicions that this has been 'digitally manipulated'?: ttps://upride.cc/incident/yn67mvj_sainsburys44tonner_closepass/ If they could have 'done me' for that, they'd have done it already- money no object! For those police sympathisers who still don't accept the extreme 'bentness' of the UK police, see this from Black Belt Barrister: ttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/86n1iAa49jk

Is cycle theft at rail stations unique to the UK? I wouldn't have thought so, but I guess it wouldn't surprise me. They seem to be one of the worst places to lock a bike up in the country. Even if your bike doesn't get stolen the would-be thief might damage your frame in the process of trying to steal it.

@SecretSam unfortunately there is little suggestion that these laws would impact that, even if AliX managed to achieve 100% compliance overnight. Plenty of those e-motos are compliant with the current legislation and perfectly legal to import to the UK/EU and sell to customers. It's just that it is then illegal to use them on public roads. The other pathway is people buying components like motors, batteries etc. individually, and then jerry-rigging them together to build an "e-bike" (which again is legal to make/own, just not legal to use on public roads). Compliance might be more useful here - it probably won't stop being buying the parts and building the illegal ebikes with them, but might mean those ebikes and their batteries are less likely to catch fire!

@oceandweller So you spent two decades living in a place you hate with no redeeming features at all? Doesn't that make you a bit stupid? We don't have border guards you know, everyone is free to leave at any time. But yeah, apart from an arts and culture scene that makes London regularly top the polls not only as an overall cultural destination but in numerous categories with three world-leading symphony orchestras, an astonishing collection of galleries and museums (most of them free), world-renowned theatre and opera and so on, so many green spaces and trees (Richmond Park and Hampstead Heath "average"? Really?) that London actually technically qualifies as a forest, a two-millenium history that has left some of the greatest Gothic,Renaissance and Baroque buildings to be found anywhere, one of the best combined mass transit systems, some of the most famous sporting venues, clubs and tournaments in the world, an incredibly vibrant popular culture of gigs and comedy, amazing pubs, an astonishing range of restaurants covering every style and culture, lower crime rates than many other parts of the UK, comparable to or lower than similar European cities and far lower than any city in the USA of remotely comparable size, some of the cleanest air of any major capital city... as for the "vicious" inhabitants, as in most places you get what you bring, if you're friendly and open and kind you'll get it back. Perhaps you aren't. Drivers in London are no worse than in any other major city I've cycled in, and I've cycled in a lot, and a lot better than some other places, and the rapidly-expanding cycle networks and infrastructure are making cycling safer every year. No redeeming features at all. Weird that so many people from all over the world seem desperate to live here and that outside the far east, specifically Hong Kong and Bangkok, we are the world's most visited tourist destination, ain't it?

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