Anyone ever see a cyclist get a ticket from a copper?

[Gillstay]

One of my chums fell of his bike drunk, came to with a pair of black boots by his nose and a copper telling him to get up.
He refused on the grounds that if he did he would have to run away to avoid arrest.
After a lot of too and fro the copper agreed to let him get up and walk the bike home un punished. Crazy defence, but worked.

 

[Profpointy]

An acquaintance got done. They'd been out drinking in Oxford and he'd went for a wobbly ride on an unlocked bike outside one of the colleges. The police stopped him "Is this your bike sir?". He answered "No, I was just having a go", which actually worked in his favour as he was then only charged with TWOK'ing (taking without owner's consent) said bike rather than the more serious charge of theft, as well as "drunk in charge of a carriage". He had to take a day off work to go to court and was duly fined on both charges

 

[markharry66]

Was in Deptford last summer main road was blocked off due to road works, of course this meant only sensible option was to go through town centre (if you have never done it dont your not missing much) of course being Saturday the market was on so only sensible option was get off and walk your bike. Not everyone though is sensible. At the other end of the high street police were issuing fines to cyclist who had ridden through the high street. On a lighter note having lived in bali if you get caught over there drink driving not taken as seriously for a back hander of 50,000rp at the time = £6.00 sterling local police will let you go on your way nice,.

 

[lazybloke]

Doubly ironic that simply driving a car with the windows wound up brings a typically greater level of auditory exclusion than listening to music on earphones.

Surely that depends on how loudly you're listening to Aqua Chris Rea?

 

[icowden]

A while back (pre-covid) I was cycling home from work in Central London - going from London Bridge to Waterloo. My route takes me down Sumner Street which has a set of traffic lights at the end of it. I saw some cycle police judiciously fining cyclists for going through the red light.

 

[Binky]

A while back (pre-covid) I was cycling home from work in Central London - going from London Bridge to Waterloo. My route takes me down Sumner Street which has a set of traffic lights at the end of it. I saw some cycle police judiciously fining cyclists for going through the red light.

I'm in favour of this but I do wonder how exactly are they enforcing this? Surely a cyclist could just make a break for it, or do the cycle police chase after them but seeing as no way of identifying a cyclist it must be relatively easy to get away(I'm not condoning doing this btw). Do they just rely on the cyclists being co-operative?

 

[icowden]

I'm in favour of this but I do wonder how exactly are they enforcing this? Surely a cyclist could just make a break for it, or do the cycle police chase after them but seeing as no way of identifying a cyclist it must be relatively easy to get away(I'm not condoning doing this btw). Do they just rely on the cyclists being co-operative?

I think that they do rely on the cyclists being cooperative, but they did have a couple of police on bikes just after the junction and a couple more, further down the road - presumably as backup in the event of a refuse to stop.

 

[HLaB]

Ive seen a few cyclists get stopped on Bridge Street in Pottyboro in the past. The last few years though they seem to be diverting PCSO resources to better places. They were so zealous in the past, I got stopped in the marked and signed cycle path 165m south (including a toucan crossing of a dual carriageway) of the Bridge Street ban.

Around here https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wd3jjpyJikieuAya9

You can just make out above a bus on the dual carriageway which would roughly be in the same place as the silver car below:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/YSpXJiNQMQ9v9gvNA

You can see in the second google the signs for the start of the part time cycling ban.

 

[Drago]

PCSOs only have the power to request a stop for ASB, not for cycling offences, unless diredtly supervised by a police officer.

 

[DRM]

Also in any interaction with a PCSO always ask for their designation card, it's odds on they won't be carrying it, if not they have no powers at all

 

[Drago]

Also in any interaction with a PCSO always ask for their designation card, it's odds on they won't be carrying it, if not they have no powers at all

They don't really have any powers anyway. A private citizen has more powere because a the asthma police aren't permitted to use their 'any person's powers of arrest like Joe Public can.