(Pro) Cyclist attacked in Richmond Park
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Pro cyclist Alex Richardson attacked, dragged along road, threatened with large knife and bike stolen at 3 in the afternoon by two scooters in Richmond Park.
Please please be careful ALL cyclists and perhaps always try to ride in at least pairs, especially in the Park. It’s a well known ‘training’ area, I stopped doing laps years ago but still ride through, use bits of it and I do sometimes wonder how vulnerable I am/look…. I tend to ride solo most of the time.
I do wonder when things like this happen how the person on another cycling thread on here feels after referring to cyclists as ‘vermin’…..?
I’m sure we are annoying at times, for all sorts of reasons , personally I try very hard to ‘get along’ with all other road users but the next time a cyclist ‘annoys’ you and you’re tempted to shout, spit, swerve at them or worse, just remember, we’re people, just like you, husbands, wives , fathers, mothers, sons, daughters mostly doing something that’s good for us and not REALLY causing harm to others, at the very worst, perhaps holding you up for a few minutes.
“Vermin”………….
Please please be careful ALL cyclists and perhaps always try to ride in at least pairs, especially in the Park. It’s a well known ‘training’ area, I stopped doing laps years ago but still ride through, use bits of it and I do sometimes wonder how vulnerable I am/look…. I tend to ride solo most of the time.
I do wonder when things like this happen how the person on another cycling thread on here feels after referring to cyclists as ‘vermin’…..?
I’m sure we are annoying at times, for all sorts of reasons , personally I try very hard to ‘get along’ with all other road users but the next time a cyclist ‘annoys’ you and you’re tempted to shout, spit, swerve at them or worse, just remember, we’re people, just like you, husbands, wives , fathers, mothers, sons, daughters mostly doing something that’s good for us and not REALLY causing harm to others, at the very worst, perhaps holding you up for a few minutes.
“Vermin”………….
I posted it as
A.. it’s just bloody shocking and I hope the perpetrators are caught and also that Alex is ok
B..to just make other cyclists aware if they haven’t seen it
C..as I’m sure most riders who’ve been cycling long enough will agree, most of us have faced all sorts of senseless abuse on varying levels, and probably, most of us shrug it off and carry on riding, but something like this just highlights how vulnerable we are and it touched a nerve
A.. it’s just bloody shocking and I hope the perpetrators are caught and also that Alex is ok
B..to just make other cyclists aware if they haven’t seen it
C..as I’m sure most riders who’ve been cycling long enough will agree, most of us have faced all sorts of senseless abuse on varying levels, and probably, most of us shrug it off and carry on riding, but something like this just highlights how vulnerable we are and it touched a nerve
rxe said:
I very much doubt it is anything to do with road rage, and everything to so with the scrotes wanting the £2000+ shiny thing being ridden.
Yep, it is all about criminal scrotes nicking expensive stuff to fuel their expensive, drug fuelled lives. Meanwhile the police seem to be devoting all their attention to so called hate crimes and painting their cars in rainbow colours.andyA700 said:
Yep, it is all about criminal scrotes nicking expensive stuff to fuel their expensive, drug fuelled lives. Meanwhile the police seem to be devoting all their attention to so called hate crimes and painting their cars in rainbow colours.
And if they ever do get caught they will be let off by the handwringers with a telling off because they had a tough upbringing and are "promising footballers"Bilkob said:
I posted it as
A.. it’s just bloody shocking and I hope the perpetrators are caught and also that Alex is ok
B..to just make other cyclists aware if they haven’t seen it
C..as I’m sure most riders who’ve been cycling long enough will agree, most of us have faced all sorts of senseless abuse on varying levels, and probably, most of us shrug it off and carry on riding, but something like this just highlights how vulnerable we are and it touched a nerve
As someone who lives near the park and uses it as a walker and cyclist, thank you for posting- I had not heard of this incident and it is good to be aware. So easy to imagine that a place like Richmond Park is scrote free, but of course it is not.A.. it’s just bloody shocking and I hope the perpetrators are caught and also that Alex is ok
B..to just make other cyclists aware if they haven’t seen it
C..as I’m sure most riders who’ve been cycling long enough will agree, most of us have faced all sorts of senseless abuse on varying levels, and probably, most of us shrug it off and carry on riding, but something like this just highlights how vulnerable we are and it touched a nerve
andyA700 said:
rxe said:
I very much doubt it is anything to do with road rage, and everything to so with the scrotes wanting the £2000+ shiny thing being ridden.
Yep, it is all about criminal scrotes nicking expensive stuff to fuel their expensive, drug fuelled lives. Meanwhile the police seem to be devoting all their attention to so called hate crimes and painting their cars in rainbow colours.Happened to a group of 4 or 5 lads out round my way a couple of years back. Quiet country road, white van went past, no probs, few ins later, white van blocking road, three guys with machetes relieved them all of their bikes, helmets incl helmet cams, phones, wallets etc, and left them in middle of nowhere.
Was probably 20k to 30k of bikes gone.
Was probably 20k to 30k of bikes gone.
rxe said:
I very much doubt it is anything to do with road rage, and everything to so with the scrotes wanting the £2000+ shiny thing being ridden.
Bike is likely to be worth 4 or 5 times that. The components alone are worth a few grand.I have a couple of expensive bikes, never really thought I might be mugged for them
jesusbuiltmycar said:
rxe said:
I very much doubt it is anything to do with road rage, and everything to so with the scrotes wanting the £2000+ shiny thing being ridden.
Doesn't change the fact that road rage isn't real - last year I was assaulted by a driver in a Bentley when cycling... 
ked off quite sharpish after one of them had a wobble and nearly fell off. Then they passed me again coming down as I was still going up, and other than a lame swerve toward me by a couple of them they seemed to have lost interest and rode off toward Rykas...I don't think that was an attempt to relieve me of my bike, but it's something additional (and depressingly negative) to be aware of now. Although I should be OK in deepest rural Wiltshire and Dorset as potential robbery victims are quite a lot thinner on the ground than places like Box Hill and Richmond Park.
poo at Paul's said:
Happened to a group of 4 or 5 lads out round my way a couple of years back. Quiet country road, white van went past, no probs, few ins later, white van blocking road, three guys with machetes relieved them all of their bikes, helmets incl helmet cams, phones, wallets etc, and left them in middle of nowhere.
Was probably 20k to 30k of bikes gone.
Who is buying these nicked bikes? It's not going to be your average PoB. They'll all be tagged/marked whatever.Was probably 20k to 30k of bikes gone.
OK maybe some get broken for spares, but still - who's buying this stuff?
Incidentally, when and where did that robbery take place? (so I can be careful)
jesusbuiltmycar said:
rxe said:
I very much doubt it is anything to do with road rage, and everything to so with the scrotes wanting the £2000+ shiny thing being ridden.
Doesn't change the fact that road rage isn't real - last year I was assaulted by a driver in a Bentley when cycling... The topic of this thread is "Man parading expensive possession in urban area is mugged, and relieved of his expensive possession".
It's essentially a sub topic of "should we be able to have nice stuff without having to hide it from criminals". See also "I should be able to leave my house unlocked without being robbed".
Which takes us into the reason for the existence of the criminality in the first place, and down the spend money to "build bigger walls" vs "remove the motive" or "do nothing and accept it" rabbit hole.
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