Thats my neck of the woods. I dont think I'll be heading there on my bike for they next few weeks. Oh by the way, it wasn't me. I was at work and I even have witnessess :biggrin:
Security barriers and pillars have been expensively installed in a lot of places, such as around Whitehall government offices, designed to stop car bombs from getting close. A bike could get really close very easily between the pillars, and carry a pretty big bomb, but the security consultants don't seem to have thought of that. Eventually the penny may drop, and use of bikes in robberies at locations inaccessible to a car (like Brent Cross) might point it up.
I think all three are Triumphs - two street triples and a daytona. Triumphs are unfortunately really easy to steal and been used quite a few times robberies recently. How the hell they managed to stay upright in corners on this floor
With filthy population that drops litter being 0.5m from garbage bin it takes all about 5min to make the floor slightly sticky, 15min and it is better then any MotoGP circuit. I always wondered how do criminals de ide which car/bike to use and do they come on forums to check, how fast and how well they handle?
so shutting down the Southampton factory was the governments way of reducing crime figures. It all makes sense now :tongue:
Interesting the whole use of the word "axe" here. The Torygraph headline has "axe wielding bikers". Under the photo, it says they had pick axes. Sort of the same, but not really. A pick-axe is a pretty good choice for smashing a window, whereas a normal run of the mill axe seems to hint that it's to be used on people or as a weapon. So which was it? The BBC make no mention of pick-axe. Here it is an axe - more frightening. Then you have to start thinking about the pick-axe. A proper pick-axe it pretty big and unwieldy on a motorbike. I'm not saying they didn't have one, but I'm not saying they did. And when is a normal axe a hatchet? Axes again are pretty unwieldy on a bike. Then there is the use of the word "bikers". In fact, they weren't bikers in the accepted sense. They were just robbers who found a bike to be convenient for a heist in a shopping centre. If they'd arrived on foot, would they have been "axe-wielding pedestrians"? So what you end up with is an amalgam which reinforces the non-biking public's preconceptions of motorcyclists being dangerous, violent outlaws, instead of just normal members of the community who prefer to travel on 2 motorised wheels.
Just watched the footage from Char's post, definitely an axe. A hatchet becomes an axe when the handle is long enough to use comfortably with two hands. My gerber kevlar axe is one of my most prized possessions.
Despite the fact they are thieving scumbags, they show some good bike control thou, those floors are slippery :wink:
i couldnt watch the video because of pop up ads annoying me, side bars ads with deafeningly loud soundtracks, an advert before the actual video, and that irritating, grave toothed, posh fat arsed bore vicki butler babbleon..... shame, coz it sounds like an interesting vid.
Sadly I know the shopping centre a little too well and the level they are on is on ground level so all they had to do was ride through the automatic doors by McDonald's
