offences

i was stopped by a traffic police on my bicycle and they charged me with
several offences including cycling with defective tyres and brakes, not
having cycle under control and breaking speed limit in a 20 zone. they also
told me they are considering an " unsafe load" charge relating to the 2
shopping bags on my handlebars. they called in a specialised transporter and
took my cycle for analysis and left me at the roadside with my shopping.
surely this is way beyond their remit and has anyone else heard about this
heavy handed tactic

"mm" wrote in message
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tall tale snipped

roflmao

With your exceptional cycling abilities you ought to join the circus :-)

mm wrote:
i was stopped by a traffic police on my bicycle and they charged me with
several offences including cycling with defective tyres and brakes, not
having cycle under control and breaking speed limit in a 20 zone. they also
told me they are considering an " unsafe load" charge relating to the 2
shopping bags on my handlebars. they called in a specialised transporter and
took my cycle for analysis and left me at the roadside with my shopping.
surely this is way beyond their remit and has anyone else heard about this
heavy handed tactic

Cycling with shopping bags on your handlebars? IMO that's a pretty
stupid thing to be doing, unless you particularly want to chance going
over the handlebars and landing on your head. Same with cycling with
defective tyres and brakes, should those be true.

Tough luck to the police on the "speeding" charge mind. That doesn't
apply to bikes.

a pretty stupid thing to be doing, unless you particularly want to chance going
over the handlebars and landing on your head.

I've done that in the past. When the wicker basket was full, and with
light shopping bags, there was absolutely no chance of anything getting
in the front wheel because the basket was in the way.

a specialised transporter and
took my cycle for analysis

This sounds unbelievably heavy-handed. What did you do/say to wind up
the plod THAT much, mm? Have you actually been "charged", or do you
have fixed penalty notices? How defective were your tyres - low tread
or cuts/bulges? What were the other offences? I'm seriously intrigued.

On 8 Nov 2005 07:17:00 -0800, "iakobski"
wrote:

a specialised transporter and
took my cycle for analysis

This sounds unbelievably heavy-handed. What did you do/say to wind up
the plod THAT much, mm? Have you actually been "charged", or do you
have fixed penalty notices? How defective were your tyres - low tread
or cuts/bulges? What were the other offences? I'm seriously intrigued.

Also where were they? Which local plod was doing it?

Jim,

LSMike wrote:

Cycling with shopping bags on your handlebars? IMO that's a pretty
stupid thing to be doing, unless you particularly want to chance going
over the handlebars and landing on your head.

FSVO "cycling", generally not including on many bikes with wee wheels
unless you have particularly droopy bags. It holds no fear for me on
the Brompton if I've filled up the bag and need more luggage capacity.
Part of the reason "shopper" bikes have wee wheels, of course...
Wouldn't work on a Hurricane with underseat steering, mind!

Pete.
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"mm" wrote in message
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i was stopped by a traffic police on my bicycle and they charged me with
several offences including cycling with defective tyres and brakes, not
having cycle under control and breaking speed limit in a 20 zone. they also
told me they are considering an " unsafe load" charge relating to the 2
shopping bags on my handlebars. they called in a specialised transporter
and took my cycle for analysis and left me at the roadside with my
shopping. surely this is way beyond their remit and has anyone else heard
about this heavy handed tactic


Well to be honest it does sound a bit heavy handed but cycling with heavy
carrier bags on handlebars is extremely dangerous and you would be barely in
control of your bike. The rest of your listed complaints only seems to
reinforce the fact the the police acted totally properly and removed a
potentially ( actually delete potentially) very dangerous hazard from the
road!

I would say that it was completely deserved.

But I suspect you are just being a troll ( which seems extremely likely with
such a tall tale)

--
Trevor A Panther
In South Yorkshire,
England, United Kingdom.
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"mm" wrote in message
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i was stopped by a traffic police on my bicycle and they charged me with
several offences including cycling with defective tyres and brakes, not
having cycle under control and breaking speed limit in a 20 zone. they also
told me they are considering an " unsafe load" charge relating to the 2
shopping bags on my handlebars. they called in a specialised transporter
and took my cycle for analysis and left me at the roadside with my
shopping. surely this is way beyond their remit and has anyone else heard
about this heavy handed tactic

ROTFL. Lucky you weren't on the phone too when they first saw you.
Presumably, though, you were wearing a helmet ;-)

--
Matt B

Matt B wrote:
"mm" wrote in message
...
i was stopped by a traffic police on my bicycle and they charged me
with several offences including cycling with defective tyres and
brakes, not having cycle under control and breaking speed limit in a
20 zone. they also told me they are considering an " unsafe load"
charge relating to the 2 shopping bags on my handlebars. they called
in a specialised transporter and took my cycle for analysis and left
me at the roadside with my shopping. surely this is way beyond their
remit and has anyone else heard about this heavy handed tactic

ROTFL. Lucky you weren't on the phone too when they first saw you.
Presumably, though, you were wearing a helmet ;-)

Replying to your own trolling? Who you trying to kid?

Put it like this, how many folk do you know with capital cities in their
email addresses?

Tim

Matt B wrote:

ROTFL. Lucky you weren't on the phone too when they first saw you.
Presumably, though, you were wearing a helmet ;-)

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Matt B

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