marko35s

So its you who complains about Mamba being too *pedally*

That one with the bear and wolf is begging for a caption competition

To be fair he did win in the end

That takes me back to Earthworm Jim on the Megadrive. I feel old for even remembering that.

Would the comment have stayed there if the poster hadn't kicked off this general mess, PR storm, dogs breakfast for the club and then found himself arrested?I would like to believe the club on the whole is a good club with admirable aims but the fact that a member feels safe to brag openly on their FB page about assaulting somebody gives me reason to wonder.

That is a very good idea and simple.

The best place to be in a fight is the "Rincewind approach"* and that is to be somewhere else. And still running**. * Mildly obscure Discworld reference ** I may not always take my own advice

If the judge is the archetypal "white van man", the UK's version of a taxi driver, then they are done for...

If thats the case can you explain why one of them went onto their Facebook page to gob off and brag about how they had shown people not to "mess with" their club? Is it some fiendishly clever tactic devised by their legal team or possibly the action of an amped up little cretin that wanted to show everybody how tough he is. you know like children do before they grow up.

Are you really this much of an idiot away from a keyboard? I am going to assume you are joking here because the actions you describe there are those of an uncontrollable idiot that should be locked away for his own safety and for the safety and peace of mind of all that come into contact with you. If you act the way you describe you need to be put somewhere where the residents arent allowed shoelaces, belts, anything pointy and get to write with crayons if they have been good that day.

Before we answer for the sake of clarity is this being filmed

We will never agree because your posts in this thread indicate you think violence with minimal cause is perfectly acceptable. Simply put I dont.

So they judge other people and form an opinion, much like you just did?

So what if words were exchanged?

They allude to some mysterious incident that kick-started this but not a single one of them has actually provided anything meaningful nor have they provided anything that resembles a reason. Lots of "ooh but you didn't see what I did, and I was there" type of comment but not once when challenged to give a full account have they bothered.Why is that?

I would be surprised if there weren't quite a few people sat in cars thinking mildly unkind thoughts as they watched that mess. For sure if I was a witness my thought process would have involved a fair amount of swearing aimed at the guys carrying out the assault.

You are mean To answer the initial question the guy is apparently not a member but they have sponsored some of the other clubs riders in the past (taken from the other, rather mammoth, thread where it's fair to say the info could be entirely accurate, a bit dubious or entirely fictional. Who knows).

Ooh I don't know about that - the admittedly small sample taken on Sunday would indicate otherwise I have to say though I do feel bad for the leader of the club if he is genuinely trying to promote cycling and uplift people he sure didn't deserve to wake up to world war three after the weekend, he was badly dropped by the people involved. We all do stupid things at some point but most of us manage to stay away from crossing the line labelled moronic but in this case they didn't just step over the line they sprinted past it at Olympian like speed.

Interesting that the article mentions that police are going to arrest another person they have identified outside of the two named by the club.

I honestly think you are misreading the intent in those posts.

He was defending his ego...

On that complete tangent are you coming back to bruise more ribs on friday?

Yep.Self defence stops when the threat ends or is terminated after which it becomes assault. There used to be a standard applied to cases where self defence was claimed called the reasonable man test (not sure if it is still used at all). The theory was simple - look at a persons actions and decide if a reasonable (or average) man would have done the same under the circumstances. In this case there is no way the actions of that group could be deemed reasonable.

Ahead? When did that happen?

Cool because I personally have never been part of an angry mob that attacked somebody.