Self-Protection Products in the UK while Cycling

Apart from teaching, I make most of my dosh working as an art technician or gallery manager, I think that everyone in that trade has lost count of the number of times they've say down in the pub and realised they've got a stanley knife or box cutter in their pocket.

Try explaining that to the orificer.

If you on your way to work, or you on your way home from work, then it's ok - tools of the trade. I was warned that if I'd forgotten to take knives out of my rucksack (which has my life in it) at weekends though and got stopped, that wouldn't technically wash. I don't know whether you'd be guilty of the law "as read" but the beak would be likely to be lenient, whether the CPS would decide it wasn't in the public interest to press charges against a married father of two for forgetting to remove one of his tools when he got home on Friday night?

Not sure on that one, you know how laws that are very loosely policed can tighten up really suddenly these days. "Terrorists? Ooo, better put sniffer dogs on every train station then - especially Vauxhall on a Saturday night. To catch the semtex carriers, of course. Not to catch all the clubbers with a bag of weed, half a gram or a few pills. No no, that's just coincidence..."