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wtjs 9 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 11 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 13 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 14 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 15 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 15 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 15 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 18 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 18 hours ago
The photos in this review look they are for a different bag?
mattw 19 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?
24 thoughts on “Live blog: Study: Cycling reverses ageing but weight training has no effect, Jeremy Clarkson back on his bike in The Grand Tour +more”
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Even if he hadn’t been carring a big-a$$ knife, it seemed like a clear-cut case for assault, I’m afraid. Carrying the knife? Not sure how this was a suspended sentence.
And, the media is calling him a cyclist. That’s like saying a bank robber was a motorist or a pedestrian and, you know what, they don’t do that.
And, and, why is it called a zombie knife anyway? Last time I checked, there was no such thing as zombies IRL…
brooksby wrote:
Clearly you’re not prepared for the zombie apocalypse, foolish man! I have a full detailed escape and survival plan.
peted76 wrote:
Worryingly – I don’t know if you’re yanking my chain…
brooksby wrote:
He was kidnapped by people who in all likelyhood would do it again, so I can see why he might turn to carrying a knife for protection. I am not saying in any way shape or form that it is right, but I can see the logic.
In the video it looks like the car in question pulls out without indicating and knock the guy off the bike and crashes into a car in trying to get away (hit and run).
It is after he has been assaulted by a weapon (the car) that he retaliates with the knife that he is now carrying around with him for protection.
Given this series of events I can see how mitigating factors can be a factor in the sentencing.
If I had just been knocked of my bike by a car I would be pretty mad too!
ClubSmed wrote:
This was no road rage attack. If you watch the vid, the bike pulls up alongside the car *before* the car pulls out. Reckon the bike rider and driver knew each other. The erratic driving says to me the driver knew he was in trouble before the knife gets pulled out.
Good point Pete. I believe
Good point Pete. I believe Hawkinspeter has an entire underground bunker with years of food and supplies and an army of thousands of highly trained anti-zombie special forces squirrels ready to take on the hoards of the undead.
StraelGuy wrote:
What, just one?
Cracking legs to the person
Cracking legs to the person in the top pick wearing a black jacket and the green brompton.
Scoob_84 wrote:
Didn’t notice – too busy looking at the well developed glutes on the left..
This one is pretty insane:
This one is pretty insane:
Cycliq Fly6 – Roadrage in Scotland
cdamian wrote:
I’ve had similar to that in the past. No point trying to argue the toss with a nutter.
Hope the cyclist was ok and some action was taken against the driver.
In another scenario the
In another scenario the driver gets stabbed/shot, would be no fucking great loss either.
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
as seen very recently some people are taking weapons with them, in places like London, Manchester/NirthWest, Glasgow, West Yorks, all places that have high rates of weapon carrying. As I said, another scenario is one where the assailant gets a deadly weapon used against them. You never know in these times particularly in certain areas where it would be more prevalent for young men to be tooled up.
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
— Yorkshire wallet as seen very recently some people are taking weapons with them, in places like London, Manchester/NirthWest, Glasgow, West Yorks, all places that have high rates of weapon carrying. As I said, another scenario is one where the assailant gets a deadly weapon used against them. You never know in these times particularly in certain areas where it would be more prevalent for young men to be tooled up.— BehindTheBikesheds
Guns for cyclists? Just for defence like.
You would only take a weapon
You would only take a weapon if you were expecting trouble. People who expect trouble usually have no problem in finding it.
Mungecrundle wrote:
As it happens you hear often on forums about arming up and to take a D-Lock or a chain so that one can smash it through the windscreen/against a person, are these wrong uns just going out to look for trouble?
And your comment ignores what I said, on another occasion the outcome could be very different, particularly in areas where knife and gun crime are prevalent. Would it be common place, of course not, but that’s the thing, can you absolutely be sure what any one person is capable of, how they might react in a scenario as per the video?
Can you tell by looking at someone who is going to be violent in a confrontation, who might be carrying a d-lock and smash it in your face and beat you to within an inch of your life, or a knife/gun/solid bar and do you serious harm? Is it that hoodie wanka on a BMX or is that just a kid going to see his mates. Is it that tattoo adorned emo looking person on a fixie, maybe that white middle aged man with a helmet and carbon bike who actually turns out to be a bit of a pscho and will punch you so hard his victim dies? That will be the Paul Lambeth case if you want to look it up.
That criminals and wrong uns do use bikes is a twisted confirmation that cycles really are the transport machine of the masses and for all types of scenarios. IF they whilst using a bike to get wherever they are going to are carrying a weapon and someone they do not know takes umbridge at them being in their way/riding like a prick/doing something else that has pricked their driverwanka, a likely scenario isn’t one of a chase but one of driver gets out, driver gets threatened with knife/gun. depending on said youths state of mind that could end really badly for them.
In cases like this where the assailent is hell bent on assaulting the victim you find yourself wishing that the assailent does get the rough end of it.
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
Not sure I have any particular disagreement with your straw man argument. Just saying that people who prepare for trouble, at least to the extent of arming themselves, are either actively looking for an excuse or on something of a hair trigger to retaliate, maybe due to previous experiences or for whatever reason.
The fact that this news item
The fact that this news item is a news item shows how scarce knife violence is in reality. It does happen, but it seems pointless to arm yourself unless there’s a specific reason you might be targetted (e.g. gambling debts, drug deals, forcing crappy Brexit deals through, squirrel smuggling etc.).
Just be prepared to defend yourself and you’ll almost never have to.
hawkinspeter wrote:
That’s a Masonic greating if ever I saw one.
Mungecrundle wrote:
Well, one variant possibly.
I prefer to use this handshake to identify myself:
Your Gif unfortunatly
Your Gif unfortunatly features no squirrels, and the squirrel reference in the text doesn’t quite cut it.
Isn’t his saddle a little bit far forward? I think he needs a bike fitting.
ktache wrote:
I was queueing up the squirrel pic for a response, so I do apologise for disappointing you.
Ooooh! Proper Top Gear’s back
Ooooh! Proper Top Gear’s back.