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Devon Road Bridge on Bristol & Bath Railway Path (licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Derek Harper)Referral order for mugger who robbed and assaulted cyclists on the Bristol to Bath cycle path
A 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named, has been given a 12-month referral order and been ordered to pay his victims compensation after stealing three bikes on the Bristol to Bath cycle path last summer.
Avon and Somerset Police say the robberies took place between August 15 and 17.
Bristol Live reports that the victims, aged 28, 31, and 32, were knocked to the ground before their bikes were taken. The 28-year-old man and the 32-year-old man were also physically assaulted.
Investigating officer PC Richard Walmsley said: “The attacks would have been a terrifying experience for the victims who were simply using the cycle track on their routine commute home.
“They each suffered significant injuries and I hope these convictions provide some comfort to the victims as they continue to recover.”
The boy pleaded guilty to the robberies as well as one charge of obstructing a constable from carrying out their duties.
There were a number of reports of attempted bike thefts on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path last August.
On August 4, a group of cyclists were threatened with a knife by a gang of youths and one was hit with a D-lock by a member of the gang.
A few days later, a man’s bike was taken after he was threatened by a group of around 15 teenagers and then kicked off.
Sergeant Jim Wilson, of the Bristol East Neighbourhood Team, said: “We are committed to tackling people causing harm within our communities and making the Bristol to Bath Path a safe place to use for all.
“The local neighbourhood team continues to patrol the pathway and if anyone sees any groups or individuals acting anti-socially or feels intimidated, please call 101 or 999 if a crime is being committed.”
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You can follow the Kennet & Avon canal much of the way if you don't like hills (and do like mud).
Best thing I've seen on the BBRP is a group dressed up as Roman soldiers, marching to Aquae Sulis.
Mrs Worcester and I had planned to cycle from London to Bath last summer. Probably just as well we didn't.
If your route had involved the Bristol-Bath railway path, then I'd have some doubts as to your navigation skills, so probably just as well that you didn't.
Hang on, let me find it...
Durh. It was from home to Wales via Reading, Bath and Bristol.
Fair enough - carry on, then.
The only trouble I've had on the Bristol-Bath "shared-use" path is that it's quite narrow in places and has a lot of pedestrians and bikes so you have to be prepared to slow down. Away from the Bristol end it gets a bit emptier and is nice and straight so there are opportunities for going as fast as you like (be careful of where the side paths can join it though).
Do you know if the route from Reading to Bristol is hilly? Or 'mountainous' as Mrs Worcester calls anything that's not as flat as a pancake.
Depends which way you go....
I've done a fair bit of cycling around the Bristol/Cotswolds area and a bit around the North Wessex Downs.
There's only a couple of big hills, one in the Cotswolds (Hinton) and in the N. Wessex downs between Chippenham and Newbury.
whilst I cant say Ive experienced any trouble on that route, I certainly didnt feel that comfortable on bits of it when it got dark, I dont know maybe I spooked myself reading to many articles like this and so just assumed every group of hoodie wearing teenagers just hanging around a cycle path at night was upto no good...but on the whole such groups generally arent there just for the ambience in my experience
Nobody's stopping you from going to your safe place in Baghdad...
Three for the price of one! Damn you fat fingers!
This is the Britain I always hoped I'd grow up in. It's probably safer to cycle to the bazaar in downtown Baghdad wearing a mankini made from the flag of the United States than along some of the lanes in the UK. I'm bracing myself for the start of the bike-mugging season on Walthamstow Marshes and along the Essex Lanes this summer.
I live literally less than 50m from the bridge in the photo and can report that this spate of incidents was a total aberration carried out by a bunch of kids who are now, clearly for the first time in their lives, finding out about consequences. It’s probably one of the busiest cycling routes outside of London, so let’s consider a likely tiny incident rate before we start mentioning Baghdad you silly Billy.
Seconded.
I used to live just opposite The Plough in Easton (i.e. spitting distance to the shared use path) and never had any trouble. Admittedly, at school closing times there'd often be large groups of kids blocking the path, but you get that anywhere near schools.
I had similar issues with schoolkids till I learned that if you ride towards them and they can see you've got a waterbottle in your hand it's like Moses and the parting of the Red Sea .
There's a dodgy bit of my commute (A2 Relief Road, if you're in the area), and one day, I'm coming down towards Rochester Way as the schools were coming out. As I pass a group of youths on MTBs, some threatening words are issued. I turn around and cycle back towards them, and they scatter like a shoal of fish spooked by a shark.
(I've yet to master the art of metaphor ...
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Anyway, I don't know what I'd have done, as I wasn't about to attack some fifteen-year-old boys.
This is the Britain I always hoped I'd grow up in. It's probably safer to cycle to the bazaar in downtown Baghdad wearing a mankini made from the flag of the United States than along some of the lanes in the UK. I'm bracing myself for the start of the bike-mugging season on Walthamstow Marshes and along the Essex Lanes this summer.
This is the Britain I always hoped I'd grow up in. It's probably safer to cycle to the bazaar in downtown Baghdad wearing a mankini made from the flag of the United States than along some of the lanes in the UK. I'm bracing myself for the start of the bike-mugging season on Walthamstow Marshes and along the Essex Lanes this summer.