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The reaction of the police is absolute crap. According to the bike blog, these kinds of attacks have been happening for well over a year now in exactly the same spot. How can the police not be doing anything about this? If it were muggings of old ladies or carjackings of BMWs they'd be pulling out all the stops to catch those scrotes. Infuriating.

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Yeah, that's EXACTLY the spot. I wonder what it will take for the police to actually take some kind of action... ? So there's been regular attacks happening in the SAME PLACE for a year now - doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to work something out.

Critical mass beating

I've given it a lot of thought

Police can't do anything since there's no cctv and they're wearing balaclavas

...that route through De Beauvoir is in the TFL cycle guide. It's quiet and there's no CCTV. I went back to the place a week ago and from where the guy must have been hiding you can see bike lights approaching from at least 300m away at the canal bridge so plenty of time for them to get in position and wait... calculated scumbags.

Thanks all. Yeah feel free to distribute the post - hope it helps prevent something similar happening to anyone else...

I was attacked on my bike at 2am a few weeks ago on De Beauvoir Rd and Northchurch Rd. A guy sprints out of the shadows from the other side wearing a balaclava, pushes me into a high curb, I fly headfirst into a wall and him and another balaclava'd accomplice kick the shit out of me as I'm on the floor. They threaten to stab me, steal my bag and my bike (old Peugeot steel frame custom build - not worth much). End up in A&E with fractured toe and lots of skin missing from multiple limbs. Police told me there's been over 15 similar attacks on this stretch of road in 2 months. Guess I don't need to spell out that's it's a good idea to avoid this route home at night.