Police investigating Rubik Cube-solving Boris Biker (+ video)

OK, solving a Rubik's cube whilt riding a bike in a public place could be considered silly, just like popping wheelies or smoking a ciggie while driving but in the grander scheme this is so trivial.

Given how much we hear about police budget cuts and the need for police forces to prioritise their activities the Met should be pretty embarrassed by this story.

I've come to realise that the Queen's staff REALLY don't like cyclists. You only have to try cycling down the race track that is the roads around Buckingham Palace to realise this.

The police made a statement which might stop a trend of people posting videos of themselves doing stupid things on a bicycle. That is probably all they will do. Sounds alright to me. Anti-stupid, not anti-bicycle.

Why don't you anti-Rubik morons get off your health-and-safety high-horse and do something that makes a real difference in the world.

All the time we spend working on investigating and prosecuting silly stupid nonsense and there are hungry, homeless people living on the streets in your country.

Thanks Rubik's Cube Man, for reminding me how stupid some humans are.

The hypocrisy!

Police will do nothing about close passes, people on phones, people eating cereal, etc.

... but see a cyclist do something and send an armed response unit to break their door down.

Now, The Royal Parks, the government body that looks after Hyde Park and several other green spaces in and around London, says it has brought the matter to the police’s attention, reports the Evening Standard.
“The Royal Parks welcomes safe and responsible cyclists but behaviour such as this is reckless,” said a spokesman.

So I hope now they start looking at how Taxi drivers drive through the Royal Parks.

A Metropolitan Police Service spokesman said officers were “aware” of the video and that “if any offences are proven, police will take action against the cyclist."

The story says the rider was on a short holiday from Italy. So if he is back home, there will be nothing the Police can do.

When was the last recorded incident of a collision occurring while someone was cycling and solving a rubiks cube at the same time?

I have video evidence of someone walking on the pavement while simultaneously chewing gum, presumably the police have time to investigate this too?

I wish one of them would just sit in my passenger seat on my commute and tally up the number of idiots he see's texting whilst driving, far more impact when 1500kg of metal drives into someone.

But cubing and cycling is a dumb thing to do

THAT MAN HAS JUST SAVAGELY BEATEN A DOG TO DEATH WITH HIS BARE HANDS!!

Yeah, but you once used a cheese grater, so, you know....

Stupidity begets stupidity...

Investigating in police dictionary means doing nothing....

Without a specific law, the Police will have to conduct a risk assessment to determine whether what the cyclists did was dangerous.

That may take sometime, whilst they search for a traffic officer who knows how to solve a Rubik's cube.

The original story says he solved the puzzle in under 40 seconds, but the video is heavily edited and I reckon he took much longer than that, so , yeah, maybe he should get told off by the rozzers. Lying swine.

Weird one. Thought the police didn't accept video evidence as independent witness evidence

@tatsky - specious to compare texting whilst driving, which is specifically illegal, as opposed to cycling one handed, which is legal (in fact required for hand signals etc) albeit whilst distracted, which I think you could probably class as unwise.

I'm still on the run from the Royal Parks from the time I popped a wheelie. I was twelve at the time, but they never forget.

Check the date folks, it's April 1st!

wait, what, it isn't a joke?!

For those who say it's similar to driving whilst on the phone, maybe, but cycling whilst on the phone isn't an offence - it's specifically mentioned in law that its motorised vehicles.

He doesn't appear to be cycling 'furiously' either....

I wrote to The Royal Parks a week ago suggesting they make urgent trail repairs in Richmond Park on one of the descents where the surface is so rutted and sandy it is plainly dangerous. Particulary so for inexperienced cyclists and children regardless of the speed at which they are travelling. Have they replied? Have they f*@k

Isn't wasting police time an offence?

London is such a peaceful and safe place; the police have so little to do that they can investigate tourists who solve Rubik's cube...

I saw someone texting while driving the other day. I wish the cops would investigate that.

Really?