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Live blog: hit-and-run driver who killed cyclist caught after Reddit user identifies part of its headlight, Tom Pidcock switches to new British CX team, Brompton unveil ltd edition Nine Streets bike +more
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wtjs 14 hours ago
@FionaJJ These officers deployed next-level stupidity, and it must be difficult for the police to find people this dim. It doesn't even need rolling-roads or whatever, just a reputable bike computer on a quickly changed mount for the difficult cases where a proper EAPC has been modded, although you would need to look hard in Lancashire to find a police officer who knows how to make a pedal cycle go. Most illegal electric motorbikes are immediately obvious, not least because the crim is wearing a face mask. I saw an obvious one tonight coming out of Garstang Sainsbury's, not pedalling but without a face mask because everybody knows that the police only come into the town to hide away in the police station 200 yards away.
bikeman01 15 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 17 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 19 hours ago
As Mary Whitehouse never said - one doesn't have to read the article if one doesn't want to read about an off-road bicycle.
Rendel Harris 19 hours ago
@FionaJJ In London they're allowed to stop on single and double yellows to deliver packages or empty pillar boxes; in practice they take this as carte blanche to park wherever and whenever they want, such as this chap on the Brixton Road who pulled into the bus/cycle/motorcycle lane without indicating, as I approached at 20mph, to park on a red route, response to a remonstrance, "I suppose you never get post delivered do ya?"
FionaJJ 20 hours ago
@Rendel Harris We have a pavement parking ban, but around here at least, royal mail vans are already exempt, subject to certain caveats, such as allowing at least 1.5m, and only being stopped to do their work.
FionaJJ 20 hours ago
It was already embarrassing for the police that they made such a mess of their attempt to determine whether a bike was legal or not, but I had assumed it was a group of well intentioned, but under-trained officers acting on their own initiative, having spotted something they thought looked not quite right. I'm now discovering this was a planned activity, something sufficiently organised to have been given a name - Operation FRISLEN, designed specifically to identify and remove illegal e-bikes and scooters. It's apparent that the officers were sent out without adequate training, never mind the kind of equipment that should be used for this sort of work. I'm not saying they always need specialist equipment to spot all illegal bikes, but at least if they'd been given a demonstration with that equipment, they'd have realised why their approach was not going to end well.
Geoff Ingram 22 hours ago
Have put drop bars on a 2001 B1 mtb, a 2007 stumpy hardtail and a 2010 stumpy full suss. In all cases fairly basic conversións leaving gearing and wheels broadly the same and concentrating on correct positioning of bars and fit. Oddly, with all 3 I was happy with the result when recently done, but after a few months found that the extra speed on easy trails was more than offset by the lack of ability (probably mine) on tougher routes and finally preferred flat bar with slammed and inverted stem as best overall compromise. Good fun playing around, though.
mark1a 22 hours ago
The photos in this review look they are for a different bag?
mattw 23 hours ago
This is a strange reactionary knee jerk overall. But what is this "are essentially motorbikes in disguise" waffle? "One letter claimed that high-powered electric ‘e-bikes’ were “essentially motorbikes” in disguise, with many being used without lights, helmets, or any hi-vis clothing." Surely, they simply ARE motorbikes?
8 thoughts on “Live blog: hit-and-run driver who killed cyclist caught after Reddit user identifies part of its headlight, Tom Pidcock switches to new British CX team, Brompton unveil ltd edition Nine Streets bike +more”
I would naively expect the
I would naively expect the police to do the detective work rather than the public. At least they caught the scumbag though – now they just need to lock him up and throw away the key!
Christopher TR1 wrote:
Do you really believe it would be practical to run a team in a police department dedicated to identifying obscure car parts?
vonhelmet wrote:
If they suspect anyone has been run over by a mk2 golf I could help.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Why – who did you run over ?
It’s got to be a great outcome to the investigation. It’s clearly ludicrous to expert the police to be experts on all cars – and to put it out on the web makes a lot of sense. As this proves.
fenix wrote:
They can anything on CSI, I’m with the op on this.
don simon wrote:
Why – who did you run over ?
It’s got to be a great outcome to the investigation. It’s clearly ludicrous to expert the police to be experts on all cars – and to put it out on the web makes a lot of sense. As this proves.
— fenix They can anything on CSI, I’m with the op on this.— Yorkshire wallet
If it were CSI they’d not only recognise the part, they’d have a purpose-written software suite dedicated exclusively to car part recognition, complete with an entirely unnecessary and incredibly-elaborate virtual-reality user-interface in which you wandered around a fully rendered 3d car-part store while parts leapt off the shelf and compared themselves to the part you were holding.
Our cops are clearly in the stone-age compared with the Yanks. Though at least they are much less likely to shoot you for no reason, so its swings-and-roundabouts.
FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:
Be a bit of a shit show, this new breed of cop show.
Cop A: Alright Bob.
Cop B: Alright Dave! What’ve you got there?
Cop A: It’s that frangment we found at the scene.
Cop B: Christ! I can hardly see it, stick it on Twitter while I stick the kettle on.
Cop A: good thinking Bob.
Cop B: nice cuppa, Dave.
Cop A: Cheers Bob.
Cop B: Hey Dave we’ve got a hit, it was that shifty looking bloke!
Cop A: Book him Danno.
Cop B: But my name’s Bob and ‘e’s nicked!
More exciting shite at the same time next week.
Likely to be 2nd degree
Likely to be 2nd degree murder charge due to leaving the person to die (intent), hope that sticks.
UK justice system take note!!!