De Beauvoir Cycle Gang Strikes Again

And seriously, what all this "Leyton" talk? I don't even live there. And my family is from Leytonstone, Catford, Walthamstow, Clapton and Harrow Road. We move around. My brothers in law have almost half of century of experience of North West and South West London - very extensive one, because they both work with young people and people misusing substances. I can be a foreigner, but it doesn't mean I don't know how this city works, because I went through the works of it at the very begining.
I really don't talk through my arse - ok, sometimes I will pull your leg, but the basics are simple:

This statement is silly:

It's the kids who grow up being told which streets they're allowed on and take years to be able to see there's a world past that who I feel sorry for, not some middle-class cyclists from the counties who run into bad luck as a result of living in London

The same kids you're trying to defend will take advantage of you when you turn your back. All this goody-goody approach doesn't work. I know it doesn't, but we'd have to discuss it over a beer or something, because it's more of a private matter.