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Wheelie (licensed on Flickr under CC BY 2.0 by Carlos Felipe Pardo).JPGPolice crackdown on cyclists' wheelies
Police in Hertford are staging a crackdown on dangerous cycling following what they say is a ‘craze’ for trying out stunts on the road.
A number of young people have been reported to the force for wheelies on the roads and over roundabouts, and other stunts.
They say warning letters could be handed out to persistent offenders.
Sergeant Michael Clark told the Hertfordshire Mercury: "There seems to be a new craze which involves carrying out stunt manoeuvres, or riding anti-socially on bikes in public places.
"This is not only dangerous to the cyclists themselves, but also puts other road users and pedestrians at risk.
"We've had many calls about this problem and as these groups of young people tend to be aged under 18, I'd like parents to be aware of this issue so that they can speak to their children about the importance of road safety.
"If this behaviour continues, it won't be long before someone is injured or worse.
"My officers will be reporting those that commit road traffic offences as well as implementing Operation Panther for those that continue to ride their bikes in an anti-social manner.
"This will involve issuing warning letters and following up with anti-social behaviour contracts (ABC) if the behaviour continues.”
Earlier this year we reported on probably the most extreme wheelies we’ve ever seen.
Uploaded to Instagram by New York City-based self-styled “extreme bike rider” Rrdblocks, video footage shows a succession of riders popping wheelies as they negotiate obstacles including street furniture, the heads of friends lying in the road and, erm, oncoming traffic.
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- momove 56 min 47 sec ago
Cheers for the lesson! Wasn't expecting one so was pleasantly surprised, especially getting to find the origin of "laconic"!
- ktache 1 hour 43 min ago
Isn't it a rights issue?
- antigee 1 hour 47 min ago
I've checked on Facebook and stopping the red light running cyclists was simply revenue raising and police time is better spent chasing real...
- Mikezerodown 2 hours 26 min ago
They were before change all systems, then went downhill due to bad adminstration aka CEO who agree to proceed with the worst system I have seen...
- AidanR 2 hours 33 min ago
Same here - it took me by surprise. 10:30am doesn't feel like a dangerous time to cycle; apparently I'm wrong on that.
- Daddy Feebs 2 hours 46 min ago
If anything, it looks a bit like an SL6
- wtjs 3 hours 22 min ago
Other commenters have different views True!
- Daclu Trelub 3 hours 37 min ago
Incredibly bone-headed.
- Sriracha 5 hours 39 min ago
Lidl have a window poster emblazoned, "Black Friday. Starts Sunday".
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Nearly got taken off my bike yesterday on my commute home by three kids wheelieing the wrong way down the road through a red light
So the wheelieing was irrelevant. Do police stop kids for riding the wrong way and through red lights?
If the police have time, they should gather video evidence and post it on YouTube.
ASCO.
c for cycling.
Must be fuck all for plod to do in Hertford.
Wish I could wheelie.....
I wonder if riding a unicycle gets their goat up too...
Wow, Hertford must be a truly wonderful place if the police have time to fuss about this. No burglaries, no violence, no shit driving, the worst thing is a few kids on bikes.
The strange thing is the police now think they have to respond immediately to a few members of some neighbourhood watch group who complain that cycling is the biggest problem in their lives but if you send video evidence of clear cases of careless driving they refuse to take any action, presumably because those same people aren't complaining about it, they are doing it.
Some of the kids pulling stunts like that are genuinely very good indeed. I wish I could wheelie that well! With the right support, guidance, peer group etc it's not that far fetched to think that you might well find the next BMX Olympic gold medalist from that sort of background.
Unfortunately of course society seems intent on demonising them, they respond in kind and you end up with a bunch of crack-addled kids in jail and a satisfied police force who've got rid of "the menace"...
Kids being kids shocker
I've never done a wheelie in my life (not even as a child). I now feel like I've missed out on something...
There's still time. Seriously, go on YouTube and some 50 odd year old has a manual tutorial (manuals being the real mark of balancing skill).
Tempted to take my bmx off the garage wall and roll down the high street on the back wheel. Will probably flip it (no brakes at all) and go under a police cars wheels.
I did that on my bike in Bath shopping centre, long before the new development, outside Sainsburys. We had rode to Bath from Bristol and I showed off by pulling a wheelie but flipped it and landed on my back with zero sympathy, quite rightly, from my Dad. Luckily only ego and pride hurt.
I could never get it up either lol
(To which I think the only appropriate response is "fnar-fnar!")
Naughty naughty!
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