Police tickets

A while ago I got a fine for RLJ and paid it.

Turns out they made an error on the paperwork so refunded the payment in a couple of weeks.

Is this thing is going to get stupid like Alex and his distribution of cheap aerospoke? I strictly hope not.

Fair call on paying the fine if you've broken the law but I'll take my missus' word on the fact that she didn't notice the red light (or flashing amber) at the pedestrian crossing.

The officer wrote on his statement that she was "sleeping when riding" when she told him that she was tired (which he couldn't spell correctly) after finishing work and didn't notice the pedestrian crossing light. I reckon the officer was "sleeping" himself to even notice the colour of the light with a pretty obvious mistake as "Mr".

Anyway, I hope it makes the ticket void therefore saving us from disputing if she ran a red light or not.

I got stopped going through reds the wrong way down a one way street. No fine. Didn't do it again. Happy ending

That'd be my first route too, this is where wearing earphones comes in handy as an excuse.

I once was being told off by police during a RLJ sting, and fixed rider, quite tall, zoomed past me and RLJ'd with headphones on (probably off this forum!). Took the piss tbh. The police woman was screaming "STOP STOP THIS IS THE POLICE, YOURE AVOIDING ARREST" or something to that effect and he pretended he couldn't hear. Then she got on her radio and was radioing in other police and the other Policeman was like "I'll take care of this!" and ran down the road. She quickly finished with me, told me not to do it again, and pursued this guy.

Thanks for sacraficing yourself for me whoever you are! But it was excessive. It was as if this guy was an armed grand theft auto homicidal maniac...

Oh and a policeman once stopped me at an Aldgate red light (not a junction, just a pedestrian crossing/traffic flow control light, perfectly safe. He RLJ'd to catch me, cut me off with his motorbike, made me lift my bike over the fence and onto the pavement, and went went...

"Right, I don't think you're safe enough to be on the roads. You're banned from cycling today. Walk your bike to stepney green and have a think about cycling safety."

He then proceeded to keep tabs on me, riding past every once in a while to make sure I didn't get back on the road. Is this kind of control even legal??

p.s. I've never been fined in years of cycling though!

Oh and a policeman once stopped me at an Aldgate red light (not a junction, just a pedestrian crossing/traffic flow control light, perfectly safe. He RLJ'd to catch me, cut me off with his motorbike, made me lift my bike over the fence and onto the pavement, and went went...

"Right, I don't think you're safe enough to be on the roads. You're banned from cycling today. Walk your bike to stepney green and have a think about cycling safety."

He then proceeded to keep tabs on me, riding past every once in a while to make sure I didn't get back on the road. Is this kind of control even legal??

Yes. You must have been riding very badly. As a motorcyclist he will have been particularly fine tuned to be observant at all times, if he saw you making moves without looking he may have decided you were about to get yourself splattered, and made you walk instead of continuing to be a danger to yourself and others.

Motorcyclists are taught to perform the "lifesaver" which is a look over the shoulder before moving (like turning right or pulling out to overtake). Most cycle commuters never look anywhere but a foot in front of their front wheel whilst pulling some outrageous moves.

In cycling, the final glance over the shoulder is called the "scoble maneuver" (after Edvald Boasson-Scoble, the inventor of the dynamo hub).

Apologies if you already knew this.

life saver on motorbike and cycle has saved my neck a few times. would never do without it. ever. FACT!

Effectively banning someone from cycling even for a few moments is not allowed. If you have committed some offence then the policeman should be specific about what it is and either caution you or charge you or let you go (with maybe a little warning) but to ban you from cycling today is beyond his power. I would either ignore him, or take his number and report him. Well out of order, he was.
You cannot be banned from cycling.

Effectively banning someone from cycling even for a few moments is not allowed. If you have committed some offence then the policeman should be specific about what it is and either caution you or charge you or let you go (with maybe a little warning) but to ban you from cycling today is beyond his power. I would either ignore him, or take his number and report him. Well out of order, he was.
You cannot be banned from cycling.

Yep, i agree. He wouldnt have been able to ban a driver in the same way as that is what the courts are for. Chancer....

Effectively banning someone from cycling even for a few moments is not allowed. If you have committed some offence then the policeman should be specific about what it is and either caution you or charge you or let you go (with maybe a little warning) but to ban you from cycling today is beyond his power. I would either ignore him, or take his number and report him. Well out of order, he was.
You cannot be banned from cycling.

Cobblers. There'll be something, public order offence of whatever.

You can be told by the police to turn music down or off, you can be told to stop shouting, you can be told to stop riding up and down the road like a twat.

srsly, you cannot be banned from cycling, trust me, I'm a cyclist

Yes. You must have been riding very badly. As a motorcyclist he will have been particularly fine tuned to be observant at all times, if he saw you making moves without looking he may have decided you were about to get yourself splattered, and made you walk instead of continuing to be a danger to yourself and others.

Motorcyclists are taught to perform the "lifesaver" which is a look over the shoulder before moving (like turning right or pulling out to overtake). Most cycle commuters never look anywhere but a foot in front of their front wheel whilst pulling some outrageous moves.

In cycling, the final glance over the shoulder is called the "scoble maneuver" (after Edvald Boasson-Scoble, the inventor of the dynamo hub).

Apologies if you already knew this.

I'm actually an excellent cyclist! Cycle about 20 miles a day and haven't had an accident since I was an inexperienced kid (about 10 years). Constantly glancing over both shoulders before turning, never undertake lorries/buses, always ask myself "what if", and EXTREMELY cautious around learner drivers and Boris bike riders, and I try to be very observant.

He stopped be purely because I broke the lights, he warned me about all that and then told me I wasnt safe because of not obeying the law.

Overconfident eh? I can see why he stopped you now.

Even if you were caught drunk and disorderly on a bike, the maximum fine is £1,000 with no option of disqualification (as it's not possible) so there's no way the OB could do this by the side of the road.

Overconfident eh? I can see why he stopped you now.

You sir, are infuriating.

I'm actually an excellent cyclist!

Overconfident eh? I can see why he stopped you now.

You sir, are infuriating.

Have you considered cycle training? ;)

^ Seriously, it works even for very experienced cyclists. No shame involved.

Yep, cycle training is where it's at.
I recommend it for everybody: not just cyclists, but the elderly, infirm, hipsters, immigrants, royalty and even the stupid.

I even heard of a man who is serving life in prison, but he was let out for half an hour so he could go to Evans cycles and buy a box of cycle training, he later said it was the best thing he'd ever done, even better than the Open University course in Astrophysics that he recently completed.

do they fit stabilizers for it?

do they fit stabilizers for it?

I just done that to a collegue's downhill bike.

he was not happy.

but in all seriousness, take cycle training, even if you're a confident cyclist, you might find yourself learning some new trick/

^ shameless plug, edscoble gets 9% commission on every box of Evans Cycle Training he sells.
Shop around, you can get it from Cyclesurgery too.

Actually I get a bit of commission from repairing old tyres with new thread rather.

Can you do a price match on a thread from cyclechat for me?