Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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The British Transport Police are lying through their teeth. They are disbanding the bike theft unit for the same reason that the Met suddenly developed a belief that foxes have opposable thumbs and skill in the use of a scalpel - not to mention the ability to arrange cat corpses in a manner designed to cause maximum upset. That reason is money.
Bike theft in France is over half a million per annum and that's the reported ones, it was one of the reasons put forward for the proposal to register bikes, ludicrous that it was.
I've been lucky I suppose, not had a bike stolen since the mid 80s but mater had her bike pinched (an xmas present from me) whilst locked up to a drain pipe outside the care home she was volunteering at. The bastards basically ripped the drain pipe off the wall of the care home building so they could steal it, pointless reporting it to police because there's two hope's of them doing anything and like the chances of getting the bike bike one of those Hope's died a long while ago.
One upside is that police are looking into violent crime, so that will be the thousands of violent crimes against people on bikes every day right? Yeah thought not you weak as piss tossers!
You covered a handcycling item...?
You remembered we exist!? Nobody remembers we exist, holy shit.
Can we see more mention in your general guides to things going forward, as well as remembering to mention, when covering a lot of the crap off kickstarter, much of which very much deserves a mocking, what might seem useless to most people is often actually really good for us lot?
I've had 2 bikes stolen and reported them both and about all the local police do is check if they've been taken to the local cash converters or equivalent, they then contact you a couple of times to say they've made no progress and then it gets put on file and nothing more done
I've had 2 bikes stolen and reported them both and about all the local police do is check if they've been taken to the local cash converters or equivalent, they then contact you a couple of times to say they've made no progress and then it gets put on file and nothing more done
I’d be gutted if I bought a copy of GQ on the back of that Thomas column
A vlogger now based in Bristol used the Copenhagen wheel.
https://youtu.be/ZX3dKLb5xQc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2nUQGIlEQc
Connor Swift's Genesis was painted in Bristol too.
https://www.instagram.com/businessasusual.cc/p/BuCU6tbgSxq/
There's a difference between not caring about your bike being stolen and believing that, after many years of ineptitude, the police and courts are so fucking useless that there's no point reporting it.
I did actually experience the rare joy of having a stolen bike recovered, albeit with many hundreds of pounds worth of damage. The thief went to court, was found guilty and ordered to pay me back £2 a week, which he never did. I was told he didn't pay his fine either.
For the avoidance of any doubt: I'd care if my bike was stolen, and I'd be f-ing furious if I discovered that there was no chance of recovering it because the powers that be had decided to close a unit dedicated to that recovery...
(Yes, I know most forces don't even have such a dedicated team; that makes it even more stupid that btp are closing theirs)