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Depends on wether or not you like the idea of God masterbating.

As long as he doesn't shoot his load all over the populace in the form of "sticky rain" does it really matter?

Just had a bit of shock (maybe not all that surprising really) - cycling around wimbledon at lunch I stopped 2 PC's on the fly. Asked them if they knew anything about the Cycle Task Force and if they knew a number or where I could find a number...
The response was less than encouraging:
PC #1 - "The Cycling Task Force?" (glance at eachother)
PC #2 - "What's that? - Never heard of that"
Me #1 - "Er, that's what I was hoping you could tell me..."
PC #1 - "Well it's nothing to do with the PO-lice mate, not part of it"
PC #2 - "You'll have to talk to the officer looking in to your stolen bike"

I did, he knows nothing either! Is it defunct?? Or did I stumble across PC Dim and PC Dumb?

Oliver seems to know about them could be that he is your man.

Oh hell no! Feeling your pain on this one... Just lost my Allez elite. Carry on pestering the police.

Ive had a very good response from my local Safer Neighbourhoods team after getting nowhere with Kingston Police. You can find your local team here:- http://www.met.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods/find.php?pcode=&x=17&y=12
Hopefully you have the frame number? I talked to one of the PC's and if it took too long to get a call back I just called them again... and again... and again - and now they've finally assigned someone to look in to it. Even making reasonable progress from what I can tell

Don't give up and don't just rely on people spotting it - google it, Gumtree it, Ebay it everyday. If you manage to get a good rappor with one officer, get their direct office number and pass on ANY information or leads you find.

Good luck!

Oh yeah and as Rowhan found out to his cost if you do find it on gumtree don't start mouthing off on here and get the whole forum up in arms about it, if you want to do this do it in a private thread so that thieving scum-bag guests can't read all about it........... Isn't that right Rowhan :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK01f5_aKY4

Hmmm, apart from the fact that the vehicle would probably be moving away from me so it would be a zero deflection shot and I wouldn't have to worry about drop as at 400m zero the round is only 32cm above sight line at mid trajectory, so aim at centre of mass and it'll get the sucker no matter what. Oh, and I'd be quite happy with a standing shot for a target of that size.
Yes, apart from all that, you don't actually think that I would ride around with a gun slung on my back, do you?
Really

:-)

And its melons every time.

All valid points but seeing as this is a hypothetical situation how about mounting these to your handlebars:

Really teach the little pricks a lesson AND have the potential to level their houses

I would think we can achieve that

You could forgo the electronic tagging for a while the police can chemically etch a unique identifying number onto the frame which they will then put on the bike register for free. Apparently not all police stations have the datatag readers (if that is the electronic tagging you are talking about) according to the friendly member of the fuzz who registered my bike when we had a "cycling and green transport" road-show at work for the stooodunts.

Dibs stem

@ Rowhan sounds good. Just out of curiosity how much have you now spent on bikes and bike accessories this year? :P

Finishing at 9pm. Will be down at about 9.15pm. I expect a Guiness to be waiting...

Yes madame whiplash

Sounds good, what pub? Or we could come at the ship from a different direction, shocking suggestion i know. Will you be on the specialized, your old bike, or a new one?

Cheers,

Another dumb question are the diet / fat burning protein shakes any good? Was told by a mate to stay away from them as they are loaded with caffeine (large amount of caffeine + me = bouncing off the wall and angry girlfriend) to up your metabolism but he frequently talks shit.

This may be a dumb question but do you find that protein shakes keep you full?

Maybe but you would get to practise on water melons.

Or pumpkins

That would be quite some shot it has to be said.

A car travelling at 30 MPH would clear 400 meters in just under 30 seconds. In that time you would have to stop your bike, dismount it, adopt a suitable firing position (at the upper reaches of your range this would probably have to be prone), bring your weapon to bear, adjust for wind direction and bullet drop, (assuming that you are using a .308 this would be negligible but would have to be factored in nonetheless), work out how much to lead the target by, ensure that you are not putting any innocents in the firing line, check variables again, unsafe your weapon and then fire. Add to this the fact that your scope would probably need to re-zeroed what with all of the bumps / vibrations from carrying it on your bike, it would be a very impressive shot Mr Jackal. Hypothetically speaking of course.

The old bag of weedkiller trick! Brilliant timing though.

Kinda difficult to fire a bolt action (or any) rifle when riding a bike no?

You would think so indeed.... but aparently Im going to have to pester the warehouse for a box number, then pester the manufacturer - if they even keep track of frame numbers

Aaaaargh feel your red tape pain buddy!

^+1

The police got your bike? Surely if you got it from Evans you will have a card with the frame number on it that will correspond to the receipts from purchase.

from the YouTube comments
"The police have this, problem is that proving who was driving the car, as the owner of that registration says it's not his car. So I need to ID the passenger with the BB gun."

Given the huge number of CCTV cameras in the UK you would think that the police could find footage of him at around this time driving towards / away from this area at around that time. They always seem to be able to do it on Spooks / CSI ;)

Other people that this might have happened to maybe?

It's seven years for carrying imitation firearms in public, isn't it? That's a stiff penalty for a few cheap lulz.

Or being shot by the police who do not realise you only have a BB gun and think it is a real one. Lets face it if they can shoot a guy because they mistake a table leg wrapped up in a plastic bag for a firearm we can only hope that this little prick meets a similar demise.

Why? It's 1,800 words about his recovery, against 100 words referring to how "dangerous" cycling in London is supposed to be.

Because its about his recovery not about the NHS, sure he touches on problems within the NHS which made his recovery more difficult, if he had switched his focus solely to the NHS he would have gone of topic and the article would have become about his experience as a patient within the NHS not his ongoing recovery.

^ Good point, I don't think that this article is necessarily the right place for such an in-depth look at one man's experience with an under-performing healthcare provider. Hopefully he can write an in-depth article that looks specifically at this at a later date. However unfortunately in-depth sensible reviews would appear to wasted on modern politicians as they are only really interested in red top friendly sound bites and PR designed to make them look better to their core voters not actions and common sense reform.