Riding/driving with other vehicles BANNED in Harlow!

[G]

I apologise for the tabloid headline, but these does seem to be a particularly badly formed overreaching and unnecessary piece of legislation.

Press release.

Full Document here.

[CaNsA]

[ScaredyCat]

"Unauthorised ride out" >= 2 vehicles ...

So, if you, your mum and dad and your grandparents need to take 2 cars to go somewhere in Harlow, that's an unauthorised ride out..

I suppose you could argue that since there's only 1 paragraph 'above', nobody could ever meet the criteria . Paragraph 2 does not exist.
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[MCN]

Is it April 1st again?

Impossibru to enforce.

So any procession queue of traffic will be a convoy?

Cooncils? Who needs 'em?
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[G]

Someone had commented that riding schools will now have to apply for permission. As should examiners at test centres presumably.

Also funerals; definitely.

And, actually; the police! Wonder the method of requesting authorisation and if it's logged.

[ScaredyCat]

[kilroy was here]

[Pete.]

Essex mentality innit. I blame Harry Enfield.
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[G]

[CaNsA]

You spend ages waiting for a bus, then three turn up at once.

Those poor bus drivers, they are gonna get screwed.

[Pete.]

[G]

Oh and - I was riding a (push) bike around Harlow on Friday and didn't see any marauding 'ride outs', however they may have been saving that all up for Saturday.

[CaNsA]

[chickenstrip]

My guess is that something was being organised by the local patch group. They seem to have been the biggest cause of grief where motorcycling is concerned in that area. The last planned MAG rally that I knew of in that area (some years ago) was banned due to (rumours of?) trouble between them and the Angels. I don't know that they ever held another (can't remember the rally's name*), but it had been a very successful and long-running event up till then.

*edit: Magna Carta rally
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[CaNsA]

Bloody hell, they are being proper nazis....

The official document states that even to organise or encourage a ride out is an offence, regardless if the ride out happens.

[G]

[chickenstrip]

Oh, right. Used to be the Outcasts (or a sub-group of that club) that stirred things up there. Seems Harlow just creates a certain mentality
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[arry]

[G]

The original 'memorial ride out' for this kid was the start of it -
https://i.imgur.com/mi9ZBsi.jpg

So, a little assumption would lead us to the conclusion his friends also illegally ride non-registered bikes on the road.

His death wasn't related to that however, [url=https://www.yourharlow.com/2016/05/11/inquest-records-an-open-verdict-into-the-death-of-marcel-jayden/ .
probably suicide[/url].

[arry]

Such tragedy, much sad, many tears. RIP Marcel.

[Rogerborg]

Pretty much what I figured. Trackies rather than leathers.

So, the result is that chavs who are already riding around illegally and giving zero fucks will now be doing it double-illegally. But with no plates and doubtless a no-pursuit policy, the consequences for them will remain exactly the same: none at all.

Meanwhile, anyone riding around legally and plated up who happens to hook up with another bike is going to get the book thrown at them to Send A Message.

Splendid work, awesome result for justice.
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[CaNsA]

[hellkat]

Essex.
The county where everybody gets to be an outlaw biker.


Sons of Anarchy fans will be over the moon.
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[hellkat]

[stevo as b4]

This is nothing new to me or that surprising really. Where I live we have a high Court injunction to ban any car cruising in the county, as there used to be a huge problem a few years ago with large meetings and mass cruises of boy racers.

While I'm not sure of the specifics, assume it's two or more vehicles deliberately travelling together on roads that have been identified as problem routes or routes to previous car meeting spots.

You'd spot such activities easily though, as boy racers and people with cars who do this sort of thing are still very stereotypical and stand out a mile IMO.

I'm all for it really as why should residents and the public/ ordinary motorists and cyclists and pedestrians have to put up with groups of loud erraticly driven speeding vehicles in residential streets at night, and in town centre car parks when people are still out and about.

I do agree with MCN though about it being very hard if not impossible to police the above injunction. We get loud bikes at night around here just going around the 3-5miles of local ring roads and at 2-5am, so I wouldn't mind a police presence out now and then to pull them over and do them for antisocial behaviour and noise disturbance during the early hours of the morning.