the other day me and a mate were street riding in a local town to us and we stopped to get a drink and a police car pulled up near us. we waited for a while amd as soon a we set off the guy got out the car and walked towards us.

we just carried on biking down the road (not actually doing any street riding at this point) and as soon as i poped up the curb into a manual hwe shouted oi, and then came over and told us to stop ruining the town by biking all over it.

that may not seem like much but considering this is one of the most chav infested towns in the UK and people get stabbed in that area i think a few manuals on pavements is hardly 'ruining the town.'

has anyone else had encounters with police like this? or was it just me an my mate that were unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time?

It's an offence to cycle on the pavement, end of.

There doing there job, sure there are axe murder'ers roaming around in chav suits but the fact that you were doing something wrong in the eyes of the law, they decided to act

Dan

Only experience I've had with them is that they stopped me for not having lights in the middle of a winter's night. I decided not to complain hehe.

Owen

At the end of the day, you were in the wrong.  Deal with it and move on.

That officer might've been a grumpy b'tard, or he might just have thought sod it I'm not gonna let them off this time...who cares and what does it matter.  If you saw him following you, more fool you for hopping on the pavement.

Rootes

Looking at it that way, yeah, rootes is right lol.

As said, riding on the pavement is illegal.  Maybe he could have dealt with it a little more tactfully, but he was right.

~case closed~

yeah its just their job, i know pritty anoying but we cant do anything about ıt. hapend to me once was jumpıng onto one of the benches on hıghrow(in darlington) and suddenly a voice came from no wear and saıd stop jumping on the benches or you will be arested, ıt was the securıty talking through  a tanoy system ın town. shure ıts proberbly hapend to most people on thıs forum you just have to get on with it and move on or get done by the police.

paul