Ever heard anything so stupid

[slimwilly]

http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-bizarre/brent-council-introduce-motorcycle-ban/23293.html

[chaz]

It's like when I was at school and someone did something wrong, if he didn't own up to it the teacher would punish the whole class, isn't that against my human rights? wonder if I could get some compo after all these years?

[Grahamm]

WTF? If I was the local bike organisation there I'd organise go-slow protest rides down that road every weekend until they realised just how stupid, unfair and unenforceable that restriction is!

[lew600fazer]

Agree mass protests, but if idiots are being a pain in the ass just carpet bomb it with speed cameras. loath to say that but.

[trudd]

Somehow I don't think the local bike group will get very far based on what actually happens:

[Simon.Pieman]

 It's a notorious spot for hooliganism on bikes, a bit like Chelsea bridge used to be like but far worse, basically it's been begging for some sort of action to be taken. I'm not surprised this has happened and if I was a local resident it would get my full approval.

[chaz]

Its always gone on somewhere or other?

[caretaker]

interesting vid. what a bunch of twats though. and i bet they will be the ones complaining the loudest.

[goldfazer]

Having been there a few times I'm not surprised.

Remember a few yrs ago  a little girl was knocked over and badly injured (killed?) by a twat on a bike which was then bundled in the back of a transit.
I don't remember many witnesses coming forwards. You want rights and respect, try earning it!

[peterjca]

I read something about that road being a commuting route for workers at a hospital, one of whom's sole transport is a motorcycle. What does the council expect him to do?

I sympathise with them trying to do something about the problem bikers. However, I'd like to see them first try the same approach with problem car drivers.

[Grahamm]

Somehow I don't think the local bike group will get very far based on what actually happens:

So arrest the idiots and prosecute them, but don't punish every other biker because of it.

[slimwilly]

Somehow I don't think the local bike group will get very far based on what actually happens:

So arrest the idiots and prosecute them, but don't punish every other biker because of it.

Exactly !!!!


If it was car boy racers the police would act on the drivers,, but it appears with bikes ,, we are all hooligans,,twats,,them not us

[trudd]

So arrest the idiots and prosecute them, but don't punish every other biker because of it.

I agree but in my eyes it's got so out of hand that it's going to take a bit more than the local bike group. I think it will need some serious backing from a big organisation with a national voice.
Putting the restriction in is obviously seen as the easiest fix but there are always two sides to the story.

[Hedgetrimmer]

The thing is, you get plenty of cager idiots there too, so why a fix that just hits motorcyclists? You could be forgiven for being a bit paranoid and thinking the establishment really is out to get us! Must be a better way of dealing with the problem.

[snapper]

" If it was car boy racers the police would act on the drivers"  eeerrrr !  no they wont !
 
 for the past few years I have call repeatedly about boy racers revving the nuts off there cars racing wheel spining handbrake turn
 300 yards from my house till 2 am in the morning sometimes there responce well send someone out !
 as yet nothing no action and the battle continues ! I've set up a small facebook group for the locals so we can record in group the nights of partys  screaming shouting cars ( scooter boys ) not larger bikes I will point out , but the police see it as out of the way of the main town only affecting a few house holds so leave it ( till someone is kill (or worse)

[simonm]

Put a load of serious speed bumps there and/or make it a mini roundabout or a junction (or even traffic lights), if they come off going around a roundabout then it could have happened anywhere.

Traffic calming is for precisely this sort of thing, discriminating against motorcycles is just not on.

[Chillum]

I wonder how it would be reported if a bunch of subaru boy racers decided to tear that area up for a few weeks? Would they then ban cars from that bit of road? If not, then it's clearly a case of discrimination.

Agree with point made above, traffic calming would help, just before the roundabout perhaps.

[Dead Eye]

Somehow I don't think the local bike group will get very far based on what actually happens:

Not that I really support "hooliganism" but nevertheless the soundtrack is sublime  Even a few cars joining in with the mix...

[Skippernick]

Its all the same blokes.
If i was the cops i would watch this video, open the road and when the relevant bike turn up nick em and crush the bikes that will learn them.
Its always the few who ruin it for the many, this incident alone has probably set biker/everyone else relations back a few years.

[neil2do]

smooth road, nice corner and a round about "heaven" and just to top it off theres folk there with cameras you can show boat to, its a mindless freak magnet  , but why not nick the freaks so they might learn a lesson.

[neil2do]

 

Throughout the operation the police became aware that visitors to the Ace Café were warning each other of their [police] presence to circumvent the effectiveness of the police.'

   am sure its an offence to allow some one to break the law, 

[chaz]

Throughout the operation the police became aware that visitors to the Ace Café were warning each other of their [police] presence to circumvent the effectiveness of the police.'

   am sure its an offence to allow some one to break the law,

but it's not an offence to prevent someone from breaking the law? depends which way you (or the magistrates) look at it?