TfL outlines plans for ‘transformational’ new segregated bike lanes + more on the live blog

If electric powered motorcycles are called e-bikes, shouldn't gas powered motorcycles be called g-bikes? (It makes too much sense to call them both motorcycles!)

I love this bike, but I love having money in my bank account even more.

Agree with Jackcycles’ comment above - “This isn’t a cycling story, but a police story and law and order story.” But a lot of the theft now is internationally mobile gangs who just fill up shipping containers full of bikes / power tools etc and have it on a boat within 24 hours of the theft. A lot of it is stolen to order or pre-sold before it even leaves the UK. Meanwhile the police - apart from generally not giving a toss - are spending massive amounts of time policing protests …with forces all over the country sending officers to London every weekend. Their radios don’t support internet / searching / connectivity to back office systems. The back office systems are shit and new tech that’s proven to identify crime patterns and save massive amounts of admin time (like palantir) are blocked on a political whim. And then even if the police catch someone, they have to fight the CPS to even get permission to charge and after that there will be a dork judge who hands out a non custodial sentence to someone even when they have nicked hundreds of £thousands of property and already have many previous convictions. Between the police, CPS and judiciary the chance of detecting, prosecuting and punishing crime is next to zero.

@jaymack Although I haven't used the term, there is indeed Two-Tier Policing throughout the UK. However it's not, as is usually proposed, based specifically on race- it's based on whether the offender, or the reporter, are people the police do or don't like. The people they REALLY don't like are people who report indisputable offences and include indisputable evidence. Of course, the people they don't like COULD be various races, or women, or cyclists. There's a reason that numerous officers from Charing Cross police station are simultaneously under investigation by IOPC

I can't get past the fact that the first photo's not on tarmac - remove it from ROAD.cc!

Stop press - BBC may have now got the message about e-motorbikes, for now anyway: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xd555levo

Priceless.

@jackcycles There were 1.37 million prosecutions for criminal offences in the UK last year, with 16,000 of those being for hate crimes such as promoting violence against other races etc. So 1.2% of all prosecutions and you're talking bollocks. By the way the first time I had a bike stolen was in 1984 and way back then all the police did was give me a crime number for the insurance so whatever stops the police investigating bike theft it isn't the amount of time they spend on, shock horror what's the world coming to, people encouraging others to burn other human beings alive for having the temerity to ask for shelter.

I can't get past the price!

@wtjs - there's a world of difference between incompetence/laziness which have been alive and well since Gilgamesh was a young lad which seems to be your beef (based on well founded person experience) and the utter tosh of asserting the existence of 'two-tier-justice'. If two-tier justice does exist it is something that benefits the wealthy, the powerful and the influential.