Be careful if you're riding around Maidstone Off road - Barbed Wire Trap found

TonyJams

Very, very nasty. Big up local rider Daniel Webster for spotting this and bringing it to the police's attention
http://bikesy.co.uk/features/knowledge/ ... t-in-kent/
Really lost for words on the mentality of someone who would set a trap like this.

POAH

lol @ #terrorism

Angus Young

POAH wrote:

lol @ #terrorism

So it's not terrorism unless it goes "BANG!"?

oxoman

Similar things happened around cannock a while ago. Just recently it's been dog poo bags suspended in trees and bushs at head height, not as nasty but still not pleasant.

Jonesinamilion

That is dispicable.

POAH

Angus Young wrote:

POAH wrote:

lol @ #terrorism

So it's not terrorism unless it goes "BANG!"?

not sure how much political gain will be had from hanging barb wire over a cycle track.

Angus Young

Terrorism isn't exclusively political.

POAH

Angus Young wrote:

Terrorism isn't exclusively political.

suggest you look up the definition

cooldad

From Wiki:
'Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is defined as the use of violence, or threatened use of violence, in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.'
So if idiot want to stop mountainbikers and uses fear, it's technically terrorism. Ideologically speaking.

Angus Young

cooldad wrote:

From Wiki:
'Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is defined as the use of violence, or threatened use of violence, in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.'
So if idiot want to stop mountainbikers and uses fear, it's technically terrorism. Ideologically speaking.

That's it.

N0bodyOfTheGoat

If only some of the morons putting this barbed wire in place could be caught in the act and be sent down for attempted manslaughter.

Even if cyclists went out with pocket fulls of tacks, cycling in the cycle lane and throwing handfuls on the road to inconvenience cars/lorries, it would not be as dangerous or moronic as this barbed wire across the road at neck height.

The Rookie

oxoman wrote:

Similar things happened around cannock a while ago.

No, a photo from the US was reposted claiming it was at Cannock - it wasn't.

TonyJams

They are at it again elsewhere in the country unfortunately
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-36196234

welshkev

It's happening in Bridgend too!

swod1

Are these tracks accessible to motocross bikes as a lot of the time stuff like this happens as people on motocross bikes have been down the tracks and cause a nuisance to others.

Angus Young

How fast is a good mountain biker going, down hill with a following wind?

The Rookie

On a steep (well known as fast) hill in the Cotswolds I've clocked 37mph on a moderately rough bridleway and a mate who's a bit quicker clocked 40mph (GPS Via Strava), I'm sure there are faster around but that's the fastest I've seen on what was genuinely off-road (all be it with a compacted stone surface).

Angus Young

The Rookie wrote:

On a steep (well known as fast) hill in the Cotswolds I've clocked 37mph on a moderately rough bridleway and a mate who's a bit quicker clocked 40mph (GPS Via Strava), I'm sure there are faster around but that's the fastest I've seen on what was genuinely off-road (all be it with a compacted stone surface).

That's around what I thought it would be (though I can't imagine I'm doing anywhere near that). I wonder if the people setting these traps actually realise we're going that fast. Wire across the neck at 40mph would probably be not far off decapitating a rider.

StinkinHippy

You're assuming the capacity for empathy and the intelligence for fully formed ideas.

The Rookie

The IRA used to string wire traps in NI to 'attack' army Land Rovers with the screen down, it stopped after a young kid out on a pushbike was killed (nearly decapitated apparently), also by then the army was fitting an upright 'wire snapper' on the front of the landies anyway. That was some time ago.

TonyJams

Someone is at it in central London now
This has just come up on the BBC, rope up in Hyde Park taking a cyclist out
Be careful out there http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36547576

N0bodyOfTheGoat

TonyJams wrote:

Someone is at it in central London now
This has just come up on the BBC, rope up in Hyde Park taking a cyclist out
Be careful out there http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36547576

I'm not sure what the best punishment would be for someone being found guilty of this ridiculous trend...

Lock them up and throw away the key
Set the same "trap" up, attach guilty party to an e-bike that cannot have speed or direction changed and send them towards their idea of "fun"