roger
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@roggys
Brompton & big wheeled bike rider, cycle campaigner. Narrowboat owner, Salar, Slough Arm Ex IWA Trustee. Likes Belgium beer https://t.co/2q5OpmYyQ4
The council has this month completed works to deliver a new shared use cycle path at Stockley Park roundabout 🚴 🚶♀️ It's all part of our commitment to investing in safer, more active and sustainable ways to travel across the borough 🌱 Read more 👉 buff.ly/YChcYPq
On a VERY empty 9.10 @dfds_uk to Calais, 4 cars and a few more lorries. Off to self isolate in Flanders & will make good use of their medicinal alcohol mouthwash.
Some very sad news. Former Bristol Rugby captain Matt Salter has died at the age of 49. Following his playing career Matt worked for many years as Head Coach at Clifton and Director of Rugby at Clifton College. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
#EXCLUSIVE ➡️ NRL bosses have revealed London is the favourite to host season-opening matches alongside Las Vegas as part of ambitious global expansion plans targeting massive revenue growth. #NRL 🏈 bit.ly/3OLUUtc Get the news first with The Daily Telegraph app: bit.ly/4bOfgf8
Well, well, well, look what just arrived. The CPS have dropped the charges at the last minute & it appears I was correct to stick to my principles that I have done nothing wrong & to demand my day in court. I will celebrate tomorrow by cycling through the City no-handed, as I have been doing safely & legally for over a decade. Whilst I’m glad that I don’t have to go to court tomorrow, I’m annoyed that @CityPolice have been able to waste my time and taxpayers money pursuing something so trivial and which is clearly not illegal. Many people who were not legally qualified may not have had the knowledge or resources to stand up & challenge this & may have given into their nonsense threats. Will @CityPolice now apologise for their actions, trying to force me to accept a fixed penalty notice for something that is not a crime & my lost earnings for tomorrow? Also, @CPSUK is being disingenuous in suggesting that they dropped this case due to lack of evidence. The facts have always been agreed: I was cycling down Bishopsgate without my hands on the handlebars. The only thing in dispute is whether such actions constitute a crime. The fact that they have dropped the case suggests that the CPS have realised that cycling without hands is not a crime: why not just admit this, rather than pretend it is anything to do with lack of evidence?
Its official: I’m appearing in City of London Magistrates tomorrow for the heinous ‘offence’ of cycling no-handed. I guess in some ways it must be good news, as it means @CityPolice must have solved all the robberies, burglaries, fraud, assault, bike theft, dangerous driving and other serious offences. If not, I’m not sure how they could justify spending lots of taxpayers money, days of officer time, and a day of time in our horrendously backlogged courts, prosecuting something which does not appear illegal, which thousands of cyclists do without issue every day and which has not caused harm to anyone else or myself. Wish me luck! I’ll report back.
I recently got stopped & ticketed by the City of London Police for, & I kid you not, “cycling no handed”. Even though it’s clearly not an offence, the officer said they were ticketing me under the Human Rights Act as I was infringing other people’s Article 2 ‘Right to Life’, in case I fell off & injured them: utterly bonkers stuff. With bicycle theft basically legalised in the City due to the complete failure of the Police to bother investigating such thefts & people being regularly terrorised in London by e-bike phone muggers, it’s good to see the City of London Police concentrating the resources on what really matters.
