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6r4h4m Nova Slayer
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Posted: 12:57 - 29 Sep 2016 Post subject: Croydon Cruise Control |
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Council to launch High Court legal action in bid to stop 'dangerous' Croydon Cruise
Basically, biker rode all the way off this mortal coil in July, and the authorities finally decided the something must be done about illegal street racing.
My question is, if you wanted to be dead cool and go street racing … what the hell is the attraction of anything calling itself the 'Croydon Cruise'?! Is this officially the crappiest meet-up name ever? |
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Posted: 13:25 - 29 Sep 2016 Post subject: |
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And there I was thinking that street racing was already illegal. |
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Posted: 13:46 - 29 Sep 2016 Post subject: |
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It's the lazybastarts we have in governance who cum up with these 'solutions'.
If there were more cops there may be less nonsense.
Or something.
More cops aye means less fun though.
Nail the culprit/s. ____________________ Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN. |
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Posted: 14:46 - 29 Sep 2016 Post subject: |
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I thought this thread was going to be along the lines of a Croydon Facelift.. but for bike cruise control (cramp buster)
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Posted: 19:08 - 30 Sep 2016 Post subject: |
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Today the High Court went ahead with the injunction to "clamp down on cruising" chortle
Makes it easier to fine the naughty boys loadsamoney if the police catch them. Doesn't make them any easier to catch though, if they keep unsportingly fleeing without helmets or number plates And I expect fines are means tested, and won't actually mean much. But hey, Something Had To Be Done apparently. |
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Old Thread Alert!
There is a gap of 1 year, 105 days between these two posts... |
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BUMP (or the closest hit I could be bothered finding).
17 convictions for cruising in the Black Country, injunction extended.
No details on who or why. As oft noted, no-pursuit means they're going to catch a "convoy" of Eric and Edna on their Enfields rather than Daryyyl and his massive on their stolen unplated crossers. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Cruising? Isn't that where gay men drive along slowly looking for cottaging opportunities? ____________________ Spain 2008France 2007Big one 2009 We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. In the end, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. |
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Itchy wrote: | Cruising? Isn't that where gay men drive along slowly looking for cottaging opportunities? |
As mentioned above, back in the 70s and 80s cruising was an essential part of the hot rod and custom car culture. You did get the odd burnout and V8 revving contest, but mostly it was about meeting up, showing off your wheels and being generally sociable.
Most big towns and cities had a custom car club and they would meet regularly (weekly or monthly) chew the fat at a given location for a while, then go for a cruise, either round the town, or to another location - one I often used to go on, met up in North Essex, then cruised down to Southend, mainly in a fairly sedate fashion.
Then (as also mentioned above) the Max Powah generation muscled in, were generally antisocial and fucked it up for everybody.
On the other hand, groups of bikers have always been twats, anyone who went to Chelsea bridge on a Saturday night in the 80s, will tell you that.
Pedestrians in the thousands spilling into the road, rolling road blocks creating gaps for bikes to wheelie/burnout/donut and then, once plod inevitably turned up, the race (and it was a race) to Heston services, where it all started again in the car park.
Not much different to the bikes screaming round the North Circ to/from the Ace in the 50s, only louder, faster and even more loutish. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 94 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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