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    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeJul 17th 2010 edited
     
    Be careful... especially round high-ho... 50 trying to grab/rugby tackle couriers (literaly grab @ 20mph) and dish out tickets. A churchill's rider (among others) failed to stop, and was cornered within a mile by a co-ordinated pushbike cop 4 way takedown... No ticket, hes going to court on criminal charges. [In addition: Mr K.kamikazi{not true} got done for £90 in one go , different place, same week..] [had my 3rd in 7 years for 10m on the pavement week before]

    Also (as I was gleefuly informed by a PCSO) they now have 10 dedicated coppers backed up by 15+ PCSOs on pushbikes in the west end. The coppers have the power to do you for £60 if they see fit, and all are under orders to take a zero tolerance approach to any cycling misdemeanors. Fuckin money making scheme.

    Watch it!
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2010
     
    sounds like its time to play Smoky and the bandit. they would never catch me he har. I could take them on a nice scenic tour of London. Disappear, change outfit and bike do em again, repeat again...theyll soon be knackared.
    Does anyone have the keys to the green boxes? a co ordinated turn off at all the major intersections for free travel to all. no infringements and the opportunity to share the road with out the flashing box money makers.
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    I wonder if they treat RLJ'ing motorists the same? Hmm. I think not.

    Perhaps they have cameras with auto numberplate recognition at certain sets of lights, but that's not going to catch an unregistered driver is it
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    I heard that it's only couriers they are going for. A friend got stopped the other day and when she was asked if she was late for her drop, to which she replied 'my what?? I'm late for my theatre rehearsal' the coppers attitude completely changed and she got nothing more than a slapped wrist.
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010
     
    "I wonder if they treat RLJ'ing motorists the same?"

    No
    Welch Andy observed the trraffic flow on high holbon for over 20 mins right by a "police checkpoint". When he pulled the coppers up about discrimination (only stoping pushbikes when 4 taxis evey 5 mins went through on red),he was told by the police "grow up". Is that a fuckin joke or not??? (when theres £60 tickets at stake) Discrimination? How many taxis/motor vehicles go through red deliberatley?
    If this continues maybe deadlines for most companies should be recalculated...
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      CommentAuthor1+1/8
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010
     
    • CommentAuthorRapattack
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2010
     
    fuck me, you could make a mint if you start up one of those.
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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2010
     
    I don't want to worry anyone, but I was going down Gower Street last week.
    I was going at a respectable "empty" pace - heading back to Soho. A pushbike copper went past me in the far lane!! Recovering from the shock took a few seconds. He was doing 20mph at a cadence of only around 75rpm, so he can turn a gear. I was almost speechless. I've never seen one of these cunts who can a) turn a gear or b) ride a bike. I caught the bastard up and asked him what the fuck he was playing at - a bloke who can ride a bike working as a cyclepig. He was Northern and he didn't think a lot of the abilities of bike coppers or the "training" programme they do. Even on his piece of standard issue crap, in his yellow jacket and uniform strides he'd catch quite a lot of you. (Not Overdrive or Rummy obviously... but some of the slower ones.) He is tallish and whippetlike. Looks like a decent cyclist believe it or not. You have been warned.
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    I asked one once what they wear, apparently it's still standard issue body armour (20kg), I very much doubt if Cavendish himself could catch an experienced rider over 3 sets of lights wearing that clobber. Coppers are natural show-offs, just like us.
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2010
     
    out running is just a question of technique. 700c wheels no match for m/bike wheels. pig rider with gear and crap tyres versus skinnier/lighter rider with 23c slickish rubbers.
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    Watch out on the Strand too, I got stopped by a plainclothes in a suit for riding the central reservation. He gave me a good talking to but let me go - apparently only uniforms can hand out traffic tickets or is this untrue?
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2010
     
    @Croadkill

    whats wrong with using the pavement?
    • CommentAuthorredrum
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2010
     
    zooom...oi...oi......neeeeeeee naaaaaaaaaaaa neeeeee naaaaaaaa neeeee naaaaaaa....zoom!!!! woooop! hahahahahah! thats normally what happens ;)
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2010
     
    Not really a way to make a living though...
    :shocked:
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010 edited
     
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    King St & Cheapside EC4 (just South of the Guildhall)

    City of London Police, basically told me that, although he thought it was a load of old bollocks, they were stopping every light-jumper. £30 or Road safety awareness on Friday morning, at the Guildhall - ''over there'' he said, pointing bitterly.
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010 edited
     
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010 edited
     
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      CommentAuthorGertie
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2010
     
    If you get stopped by the po-lice jumping a light then you didn't look properly before jumping it. I've said this before and I'll say it again (and OF COURSE I've disobeyed my own rule and been caught;-) )
    They're not going to go after motorists are they, 'cause if they did Clarkson etal would have a go at them in the press and they are such sensitive delicate little flowers and it would make them cry, poor dears.
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    What gets me, being from oop north and all that, is the fact that police cars in the city are red. I just don't associate red with pigs. I hope I learn quickly!
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2010
     
    ^red cars are the diplomatic protection service cars, they dont usually bother cyclists
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      CommentAuthorstupidP
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2010
     
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_Protection_Group

    walk around embassies with firearms talking golf, paella and nefarious inane shite. Bit like me.

    Gertie, as always is right. Curly, as always is wurly.
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2010
     
    They dont mind searching Somali drug dealers in the west end either:

    Searching Somalis...
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    Ah, interesting stuff. Good to know.
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    @gertie "If you get stopped by the po-lice jumping a light then you didn't look properly before jumping it."

    Absolutely right.

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