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Ha! Your bike is still a puppy! Me and some friends exclusively ride 90s mountain bikes. 30 to 35 years old, full rigid, rim brakes… and we love it. t 56 years old, I can still keep up with most other riders who are younger and on modern, more capable bikes. No need or desire for anything more modern.

Thanks for featuring this absolute GOAT of mountain biking!

@jackcycles I'll try my best not to fight anyone unless my safety or that of another person is at risk, but in any case, not quite sure how you've managed to get from "I wouldn't fight this very large clearly psychopathic probably drugged bloke who might very well have a weapon and has a mate who could join in" to "admitting" I'd only fight women and children. Actually, I am sure, it's because you're a troll. Suspected as much from your first appearances here but gradually been more confirmed and that utterly imbecilic comment seals it.

@Hirsute I have no experience of Essex Police, but I know a lot about the attitudes of officers in Lancashire Constabulary. They don't consider motoring offences to be real offences, especially if they're offences against cyclists. This is odd, because there are very few cyclists up here in North Lancashire and not much active travel for the specific purpose of getting to a specific place, beyond walking short distances. If this assault case had been in Lancashire, I would be pretty sure tha the police are deliberately not trying very hard to catch the offender, because they think the cyclist was 'asking for it' by just being there, and is now 'asking for it' by having initially reported it and for repeatedly pestering the police about what they consider to be a trivial offence.

@jackcycles That, in turn, is a very odd thing to say.

Bit of an odd thing to say. You're basically admitting you'd only fight women and children.

@Aluminium can Self defence is proportionate to the perceived threat and there is a lot of latitude. People have in a handful of cases killed another and it has been ruled self defence.

@jackcycles The counter protestors were being taken away from a dangerous situation if you bothered to look it up. We don't have DEI in this country - that is the US we have EDI which aims to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities, and no-one is treated differently or discriminated against because of their personal characteristics. These are known as ‘protected characteristics’ under the Equality Act 2010. The nine protected characteristics are: age disability gender reassignment marital or civil partnership status pregnancy and maternity race (including colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins) religion or belief (including lack of belief) sex sexual orientation The police particularly have issues racism and misogyny.

@Aluminium can You have no idea what size CykelTony is, how old he is, what disabilities he might have or anything else. Unless he is very large and used to fighting he did exactly the right thing in not engaging with this psychopath, who is not only very large but also obviously accustomed to employing violence and, if I'm any judge, either on cocaine/meth or coming down from same. He's also got a mate in the car with him as well, and looks the type of person who if he was challenged might well produce a knife or other weapon. Personally, although I'm 6 feet tall, pushing 90 kg and a former rugby player who can, I suppose, "handle himself" reasonably well, I would, I hope, have had the sense to behave like CT, minimise the risk, get away as quickly as you can and report to the police. If you try and take someone like this (and his mate) on, it is not going to end well for you.

I agree but alas I think that definition has shifted over time in the direction of "reproduces press releases and stuff people have put out online" from eg. James Greenwood's "I spent a night in a workhouse so you don't have to". And of course in the old days it was also the journalists simply making it up, not just the PR folks...