Buckingham palace this morning.

spursn17

Apparently my bike is now a WMD.

Cycling past the palace about half eleven this morning (middle lane, surrounded by coaches and taxi's) I got told to walk my bike across to Birdcage Walk as it could contain a bomb. I pointed out that every vehicle and tourist outside the palace could have a bomb on them.

Did this happen to anyone else?

tgotb

When did you last clean it?

pangolin

Anything going on there that made this a bit less random? 1000's of bikes go past Buckingham palace every day :?

coopster_the_1st

pangolin wrote:

Anything going on there that made this a bit less random? 1000's of bikes go past Buckingham palace every day :?

There's a state visit happening in Windsor tomorrow which is probably related to this

rjsterry

spursn17 wrote:

Apparently my bike is now a WMD.

Cycling past the palace about half eleven this morning (middle lane, surrounded by coaches and taxi's) I got told to walk my bike across to Birdcage Walk as it could contain a bomb. I pointed out that every vehicle and tourist outside the palace could have a bomb on them.

Did this happen to anyone else?

More disturbingly, what kind of mind thinks that walking a bike (with a suspected bomb) rather than riding it would reduce it's efficacy as an explosive device?

tgotb

rjsterry wrote:

spursn17 wrote:

Apparently my bike is now a WMD.

Cycling past the palace about half eleven this morning (middle lane, surrounded by coaches and taxi's) I got told to walk my bike across to Birdcage Walk as it could contain a bomb. I pointed out that every vehicle and tourist outside the palace could have a bomb on them.

Did this happen to anyone else?

More disturbingly, what kind of mind thinks that walking a bike (with a suspected bomb) rather than riding it would reduce it's efficacy as an explosive device?

Because you can walk it *across* the road, away from the palace. If you're riding, you're supposed to go *along* the road (unless you're on a scruffy fixie with 6" wide handlebars and a messenger bag).

walkingbootweather

spursn17 wrote:

Did this happen to anyone else?

Not to me, but then I was riding the Thorn Sterling with Marathon XC tyres, and that is pretty bomb proof

oh, yes and I'm over 200 miles away from the Palace

daviesee

spursn17 wrote:

Did this happen to anyone else?

Maybe him?

meanredspider

daviesee wrote:

spursn17 wrote:

Did this happen to anyone else?

Maybe him?

He should be stopped (shot?) just for his choice of kit...

rjsterry

tgotb wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

spursn17 wrote:

Apparently my bike is now a WMD.

Cycling past the palace about half eleven this morning (middle lane, surrounded by coaches and taxi's) I got told to walk my bike across to Birdcage Walk as it could contain a bomb. I pointed out that every vehicle and tourist outside the palace could have a bomb on them.

Did this happen to anyone else?

More disturbingly, what kind of mind thinks that walking a bike (with a suspected bomb) rather than riding it would reduce it's efficacy as an explosive device?

Because you can walk it *across* the road, away from the palace. If you're riding, you're supposed to go *along* the road (unless you're on a scruffy fixie with 6" wide handlebars and a messenger bag).

Ah, didn't twig that bit, although what stops you walking along the pavement parallel to your original route? Maybe that extra 4 feet is what makes the difference.

pangolin

Surely you can just say no to that kind of request. Fair enough for going along with it, but they have no actual right to order you off a public road without reasonable suspicion do they? And if they had reasonable suspicion that you had a bomb then they would hopefully do a bit more than just make you use a different route.

*goes off to do laps of Buckingham Palace for lunch hour*

spursn17

Surely you can just say no to that kind of request. Fair enough for going along with it, but they have no actual right to order you off a public road without reasonable suspicion do they? And if they had reasonable suspicion that you had a bomb then they would hopefully do a bit more than just make you use a different route.

I did ride on the road after having a roadside 'discussion' with the officer, a lot of cyclists got off and walked though.

cookeeemonster

so the coaches full of foreigners and 1000's of kilos of potential explosives are ok...but the cyclist with maybe a backpack is not?!??!

Did they also ask tourist pedestrians with a bag to f**k off too??

Just amazing.

Someone should do something

spursn17

cookeeemonster wrote:

so the coaches full of foreigners and 1000's of kilos of potential explosives are ok...but the cyclist with maybe a backpack is not?!??!

Did they also ask tourist pedestrians with a bag to f**k off too??

Just amazing.

Someone should do something

This was the argument that I put to the officer, the choice I gave him was let me ride on the road or put me in a van to the nick.

asprilla

spursn17 wrote:

cookeeemonster wrote:

so the coaches full of foreigners and 1000's of kilos of potential explosives are ok...but the cyclist with maybe a backpack is not?!??!

Did they also ask tourist pedestrians with a bag to f**k off too??

Just amazing.

Someone should do something

This was the argument that I put to the officer, the choice I gave him was let me ride on the road or put me in a van to the nick.

Did you call him a pleb?

spursn17

I think I'm more of a pleb than most people