If only they had read Kevin's thread ...

[Fab Foodie]

never read the comments

Good advice.

 

[Fab Foodie]

"Plain-clothes officers put brake on errant cyclists": http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/New...ers-put-brake-on-errant-cyclists-19122012.htm
(note the cunning play on words).

Checkout the photos ... I think praise is due to:

• Number 7 for shopping bag balancing.
• Number 9 for no-hands riding

And what are the real world issues actually caused by these?
How many deaths?
How many injuries?
How many near-misses?

It simply misses the pint that careless driving is the biggest cause of death on roads. Everything else, like this is angsty-wanksty window dressing. It's wasteful bollocks. Look at the statistics..

 

[nickprior]

Interesting it was light enough to take photographs of all those bikes without lights ... no flashgun either. So difficult to see.

 

[MisterStan]

And what are the real world issues actually caused by these?
How many deaths?
How many injuries?
How many near-misses?

It simply misses the pint that careless driving is the biggest cause of death on roads. Everything else, like this is angsty-wanksty window dressing. It's wasteful bollocks. Look at the statistics..

Why should we expect drivers to behave and follow the rules if cyclists can't? We'd all be up in arms if this was cars without lights, driving the wrong way etc.

 

[jarlrmai]

We'd be a little more receptive If when we show the police a crazy close overtake by a concrete mixer they did anything.

 

[Fab Foodie]

We'd be a little more receptive If when we show the police a crazy close overtake by a concrete mixer they did anything.

Ah, now we're getting there ....

 

[CopperCyclist]

And what are the real world issues actually caused by these?
How many deaths?
How many injuries?
How many near-misses?

It simply misses the pint that careless driving is the biggest cause of death on roads. Everything else, like this is angsty-wanksty window dressing. It's wasteful bollocks. Look at the statistics..

The error in your presumption is that since the introduction of neighbourhood policing, policing is driven by common sense instead of targets set by the local people keen enough to attend meetings and moan about what bothers them.

 

[Fab Foodie]

The error in your presumption is that since the introduction of neighbourhood policing, policing is driven by common sense instead of targets set by the local people keen enough to attend meetings and moan about what bothers them.

Which means what exactly?
Again, what really is being achieved by the Cambridge Police actions? I'll wager bugger all in terms of anybodys safety.

 

[downfader]

Interesting it was light enough to take photographs of all those bikes without lights ... no flashgun either. So difficult to see.

No, as a photographer I disagree. Modern SLRs have very sensitive CMOS sensors and will take handheld night shots with no real issue. The lens used will mostly likely be a telephoto* end of the spectrum and with the widest aperture** to let all the light in.

* Telephoto lens is a lens used to take an image of something at distance
** The aperture for those that dont know photography is the adjustable hole in which the light passes through the lens. You adjust it to change depth of field/sharpness/light intake. The smaller the hole the more sharp the image is in th foreground AND through to the background...

This was taken during the darkness of last week's early morning. About 7am..
https://twitter.com/i/#!/Downfader/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com/YYvDKWf8

 

[downfader]

Which means what exactly?
Again, what really is being achieved by the Cambridge Police actions? I'll wager bugger all in terms of anybodys safety.

I disagree to an extent. YES we as society should be targeting the real dangers to everyone, but the fact remains it is against the law and it does cause problems.

Oh and I think the guy in image 9 was giving the bird to the camera man, haha

 

[CopperCyclist]

Which means what exactly?
Again, what really is being achieved by the Cambridge Police actions? I'll wager bugger all in terms of anybodys safety.

What police do is no longer driven primarily by preventing crime. The large focus is on neighbourhood policing - policing according to what the neighbourhood meetings raise as their agendas. The people that attend these meeting are much more likely to be the ones that will be moaning about the 'Lycra louts jumping red lights willy nilly' rather than focusing on the larger crimes, so when you have small one off initiatives, they are normally to appease the smaller 'anti social behavioural' incidents. This initiative in Cambridge raises loads of signals to me that it was bred through a group of neighbourhood meetings with people complaining that 'nothing is ever done about these pavement cyclists'.

 

[Fab Foodie]

What police do is no longer driven primarily by preventing crime. The large focus is on neighbourhood policing - policing according to what the neighbourhood meetings raise as their agendas. The people that attend these meeting are much more likely to be the ones that will be moaning about the 'Lycra louts jumping red lights willy nilly' rather than focusing on the larger crimes, so when you have small one off initiatives, they are normally to appease the smaller 'anti social behavioural' incidents. This initiative in Cambridge raises loads of signals to me that it was bred through a group of neighbourhood meetings with people complaining that 'nothing is ever done about these pavement cyclists'.

Ah, so there's the nub, it's simply an apeasement exercise then, a bit of symbolism, fodder for the local news.

 

[MisterStan]

More from the CEN http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Call-for-balance-in-car-bicycle-battle-20122012.htm

 

[CopperCyclist]

Ah, so there's the nub, it's simply an apeasement exercise then, a bit of symbolism, fodder for the local news.

Exactly.

 

[Tynan]

'incorrect lights'

they obviously were being strict

it did seem to be very well lit