Old Bill on Brick Lane

True, but it's a vicious circle. Why bother to report your bike stolen when it can take ages, hanging around in a station, and it most likely wont get found.

it's only once or twice in your lifetime that you'll spend age in a station writing down your report forum, so what have you got to lose? it's still worth doing, and while it's certainly likely that it won't get found, you may end up getting lucky like some forumenager here who managed to get their bike back after the police found it.

it's only once or twice in your lifetime that you'll spend age in a station writing down your report forum, so what have you got to lose?

No claims discount? But yeah you're right

]...not forgetting the terrible state of the road itself! It really isn't a diversion to avoid it unless you go to the top of Brick Lane THEN take an alternative route. If you just plan a different (faster) route in the first place you don't have to go near Brick Lane.[/B]

But yeah this police exercise seems a little malicious.

My point exactly, repped.

I like riding down brick lane either way as it's got a bit more character.
I always pick the more characterful routes and avoid the soulless roads - the York Ways of this town for example.

i walk both up and down brick lane so I can pose in my spray on jeans and look at my quiff in the many shop windows

No, I don't agree - it's not a reasonable argument to say 'why aren't you doing XYZ instead?' but I think to choose that particular spot, where there is massive need for cycles to go either way, is plain cynical, a moneymaking exercise.

I would usually agree with what you are saying here skully, but this is so daftly ironic it's painful.

Well in what way do would you agree then, usually?

The argument of 'they should be doing this or that' is like creating your own miserly, "CCTV camera? what next? camera inside our house?".

Well in what way do would you agree then, usually?

I would usually wholeheartedly agree with this statement - 'why aren't you doing XYZ instead?'
but it just seems daft targeting people riding the wrong way when the place is so crime riddled, there are problems with gangs round there as well as the mass of stolen bikes, if I was drawing up a "to do" list would get popped well above "cyclists going the wrong way down a non major road".
A bit like worrying about a hang nail when you have cancer (excuse the morbid metaphor).

I would usually wholeheartedly agree with this statement - 'why aren't you doing XYZ instead?'
but it just seems daft targeting people riding the wrong way when the place is so crime riddled, there are problems with gangs round there as well as the mass of stolen bikes, if I was drawing up a "to do" list would get popped well above "cyclists going the wrong way down a non major road".
A bit like worrying about a hang nail when you have cancer (excuse the morbid metaphor).

Did you not read my comment about stolen bicycle?

Loads of the cycle ones uut this morning on Southwark Bridge too, both sides. And around Bank. Must be going on a hunt.

As for arresting theft in brick lane - try and do that, more than half the stolen bike in Brick Lane are likely not to be reported let alone their serial number registered, so how can the police arrest a seller for selling bicycle that claim to be stolen? the seller can easily claim that the bike are merely second hand bike that the owner don't want anymore.

yes, they could've add a bit more work in going through the stolen bike report from their local station and then going down to Brick Lane to check the bike, but at the same thing I've a feeling it's not that simple.

sometime it's not as straightforward as it seemed to said "why don't you arrest bike theft?".

this one? yep, read it, understand what you are saying, but I dont think it detracts from my point that resources could be spent elsewhere to deal with more serious problems. If the police down bricklane today were maybe at their stations updating and getting more familiar with their stolen bikes database then maybe they could prove which bikes were stolen more easily and weekends? To me this exercise looks like minimal work stats chasing...

They're back again.

Same place.

hmm ... lock BL for normal car traffic and be done. bikes doodle along and can fearlessly aim for roaming peds both ways.