Don't f*ck with LFGSS sanctioned rides...

I don't suppose anyone happened to spot if it had satnav installed. I could do with an up to date disc for mine.

Get out of my head, maxcrowe!

Nah. I like it in here

Po-po might also need to add driving a stolen car on false plates to the list. That doesn't come up as a valid registration.

Try YOO3 UUF, not sure it starts with a V you know.

Well, it is pretty spacious...

Po-po might also need to add driving a stolen car on false plates to the list. That doesn't come up as a valid registration.

[cough] oh yes it does - VO03UUF [/cough]

it's my eyes then ;)

^ that a letter O and a zero :)

There's never someone with a WAC sticker when you need one, is there?

Right just got off the phone to the Old Bill.

Going to ring Marlowe House in Sidcup, Kent which deals with all road traffic incidents on Monday to give them full witness report.

Mirco, Steve & Clive I will PM you the number should you wish to call too.

Ved. I saw nothing. Too bloody slow to see anything. It was all over by the time I got there.

As someone who was nearly killed by a combination of wreckless driving, some dipshit overtaking a traffic island round a blind bend whilst adjusting his radio, colliding head on with the car I was passenger in....
I can say I have absolutely no sympathy for cunts like this, I hope their lives are ended before they end someone elses.

As per usual its the cunts that always seem to come off better in these accidents too, the guy that hit us gave both me and my friend life-changing injuries that took years to recover from, and some that I will never recover from fully.
He had a bit of wounding on his legs, concussion, and a couple of cracked ribs, he was home after 4/5 days of observation.

What makes you say this fella?

Someone I know wrote his car off and someone else's while drunk driving and RLJing

He has been arrested for drink driving and banned for three years but his insurance company knows and he has still had a massive payoff.

People shouldn't get insurance pay offs when they break the law or act recklessly.

Ved. I saw nothing. Too bloody slow to see anything. It was all over by the time I got there.

procecution: "Ah, so sir, you are saying the defendant was travelling so fast you were unable to resolve his speed with the naked eye? damning evidence indeed, your honour"

Let's hope it doesn't turn out that the guy had just heard that his partner or child had been rushed to hospital or that his house was on fire. You know, bad driving for sure but let's not jump the gun....

^ that a letter O and a zero :)

in the pursuit of fairness, yes, one of each.

@ Ved, can you PM me the number and I'll submit a statement too. Ta. (edit - you just have, thanks)

Let's hope it doesn't turn out that the guy had just heard that his partner or child had been rushed to hospital or that his house was on fire. You know, bad driving for sure but let's not jump the gun....

Last year I was driving through Peckham and spotted in my mirrors someone driving like a real arse. He was overtaking recklesly and generally barging his way through. I gave him a bit of wide white van action when he tried to carve past me at some point but he eventually got past me by using a bus lane. I did feel slightly bad when I spotted him parked 1/4 mile later by a car that was wrapped round a tree.

edit - for sake of clarity he was rushing to the accident and not the cause of it.

Blimey. This is a bonkers bit of news. Can't say I fancy riding anywhere today in this weather, so props to the training crew, as well. Get that driver banged to rights Ved.

Let's hope it doesn't turn out that the guy had just heard that his partner or child had been rushed to hospital or that his house was on fire. You know, bad driving for sure but let's not jump the gun....

and that's a good enough excuse to drive like a cock? would you be saying that's a valid excuse if he ran your friend/child/wife/partner over?

sorry did i miss the irony emoticon?

procecution: "Ah, so sir, you are saying the defendant was travelling so fast you were unable to resolve his speed with the naked eye? damning evidence indeed, your honour"

true story from a traffic officer;

defence: "so officer, how fast do you think the defendant was driving at the time of the incident?"

officer: "I would say approximately 60 miles per hour"

defence: "Uh-huh, and how do you know this?"

officer: "I have been driving a car practically every day for over 20 years and have extensive training in advanced driving so it is an educated guess that I am sure is reliable"

defence solicitor picks up a pencil and throws it across the court room

defence: "so officer, how fast do you think that pencil was travelling?"

officer: "I have no idea."

defence: "so how then can say you know the speed of the car that day when you can't tell the speed of that pencil only moments ago?"

officer: "well.....I don't drive a pencil"

The 20mph speed limit in Richmond Park is a bit OTT IMO. 30 would be perfectly safe in most places. However what pisses me off is when im going along at 20+ mph, some doooch bag tries to overtake me just because i'm on a bloomin bicycle! If i was in a car they would even think of it (well...apart from the M3 nobend)

what usually happens is the overtake you when there is no room between you and the car in front, they then slowly drift to the left because they think you are supposed to slow down and let them in front because you are only riding a bicycle.
they don't like it when you tap on their roof just to let them know you are right next to their car.

the oddest experience in RP was a woman leaning across her passenger waving a piece of paper and shouting "i'm a policewoman! stop cycling 2 abreast, i'm a policewoman" out of the passenger window. she wasn't in control of her car or looking where she was going.
no traffic in the park apart from a horse and cart we had just slowed down for. she drove off but i was going to report her to the parks police for dangerous driving and speeding if she was not going to realise we were perfectly within the law to be riding 2 abreast 'when it is safe to do so'

people do seem to leave any rationality behind when they enter the gates. in the summer i sit and have an ice cream by the cafe entrance and watch the carnage as cyclists and cars try to negotiate the entrance/exit and peds try to cross over to the middle of the park, people wandering into the road with kids eating ice cream and making mobile phone calls nearly being hit by TT riders. it must be something in the water round there.

On my way to Richmond Park yesterday I was told off by the Police on two separate occasions. Once for going through a recently erected No Entry sign near Ludgate Circus where they had just closed the roads for the Lord Mayor's procession. We were given a very stern and patronising warning by a young constable. Later, when passing Vauxhall Bridge on the Embankment, I edged ahead of the stop line at a red light to have a Police Woman yell at me from a passing van. On neither occasion did I endanger my own or anyone else's lives. They were simply enforcing the rules; the very rules that they are so happy to flaunt even when it comes to risking the lives of others.

One less car

One less reckless driver

fixed.