Police State
Metropolitan Police threaten to arrest "several hundred" cyclists in my local training haunt, Richmond Park, for breaking the 20mph speed limit (a limit that the local motor traffic seems to routinely ignore). London's racing cyclists will be turning out en masse next Saturday and envisage a slapstick police response. "I don't see how they're going to be able to stop all of the cyclists, are they going to chase us in police cars? Certainly not on bikes, judging by the size of some of the waistlines I've seen on the cyclist cops. I have a image of a Benny Hill chase sequence." Naturally, I'll be there with my camera.
On a serious note, anti-cyclist sentiment seems to be at an all-time high in London right now, and this sort of harebrained "clampdown" isn't going to make the world a better place for anyone.
— Filed under Cycling