Illegal Bikers - Police swoop in dawn raids

[Johnnyboxer]

I saw this on FB yesterday

Cheshire and Humberside Police, seized 6 offroad Enduro bikes in the Grimsby area, from owners

In a high profile operation, £25k of bikes were seized and impounded

The riders had filmed themselves and uploaded to Youtube, videos of themselves damaging verges in the Wolds, riding illegally in the Peak District on open moor and footpaths and also on farmland in Lincolnshire, blatantly riding across newly sown crops of OSR and cereals, well away from any public access tracks.
They also filmed themselves riding down fenland dykes and refusing to stop for farmers trying to apprehend them

They incriminated themselves in their videos, by displaying their number plates

Police used the info to trace them and seized the bikes, yesterday

I have seen the videos (now removed) and they just rode on farmland, wherever they fancied, akin to hare coursers on enduro bikes

Reports here
http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/dawn-raids-lead-seven-arrests-1105458

https://www.humberside.police.uk/news/warrants-executed-and-motorbikes-seized

 

[wasted years]

I think god is trying to tell them that they have too much money.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

I think god is trying to tell them that they have too much money.

Really?
Good on the Police, though

 

[Fish]

You tube ha ha, just shows how dim some people are.
Well done the police.

 

[wasted years]

Really?
Good on the Police, though

The lads with the bikes.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Of road bikes are a pain round here ,,they use the riverbank to access remote properties .
just before christmas couple of folks walking their dogs had to get out the way of a couple as they flew down the river bank from town ,,they might have been something to do with the traveler site that got raided couple of weeks back

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

We had some idiots on a quad bike one afternoon recently tearing round a roadside grass field . I reported it along with the registration number - nothing happened . [emoji35]

 

[Johnnyboxer]

The lads with the bikes.

Ok, got it now
Silly them thinking once they had spent £8k on a new dirt bike............that any farmers field in Lincs, was good for a blast across - irrespective of crops

I bet if a farmer had wheelspun his pickup wheels on their front lawn, they wouldn't have been too chuffed

Why people think that any part of the countryside is fair game to trespass on is beyond me

 

[Johnnyboxer]

We had some idiots on a quad bike one afternoon recently tearing round a roadside grass field . I reported it along with the registration number - nothing happened . [emoji35]

Film it, with a reg no and they will get a visit from Plod

 

[wasted years]

Probably thinking they could become you tube millionaires.

 

[Deereone]

Please don't tar us all with the same brush. There are a lot of responsible dirt bike riders out there who belong to the Trail Riders Fellowship. We only ride on legal unmetaled roads and are on the look out for these hooligans who give the rest of us a bad name.

 

[Pond digger]

I saw this on FB yesterday

Cheshire and Humberside Police, seized 6 offroad Enduro bikes in the Grimsby area, from owners

In a high profile operation, £25k of bikes were seized and impounded

The riders had filmed themselves and uploaded to Youtube, videos of themselves damaging verges in the Wolds, riding illegally in the Peak District on open moor and footpaths and also on farmland in Lincolnshire, blatantly riding across newly sown crops of OSR and cereals, well away from any public access tracks.
They also filmed themselves riding down fenland dykes and refusing to stop for farmers trying to apprehend them

They incriminated themselves in their videos, by displaying their number plates

Police used the info to trace them and seized the bikes, yesterday

I have seen the videos (now removed) and they just rode on farmland, wherever they fancied, akin to hare coursers on enduro bikes

Reports here
http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/dawn-raids-lead-seven-arrests-1105458

https://www.humberside.police.uk/news/warrants-executed-and-motorbikes-seized

Well done Plod.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Please don't tar us all with the same brush. There are a lot of responsible dirt bike riders out there who belong to the Trail Riders Fellowship. We only ride on legal unmetaled roads and are on the look out for these hooligans who give the rest of us a bad name.

we are very fortunate in this country with so many legal options to ride & a vast network of gravel roads, tracks & trails that are public roads. It must be very difficult to ride dirt bikes ( or big adventure bikes, apart from running up & down bitumen motorways ) in the UK if you don't compete in motorcross or endure or such

 

[Johnnyboxer]

we are very fortunate in this country with so many legal options to ride & a vast network of gravel roads, tracks & trails that are public roads. It must be very difficult to ride dirt bikes ( or big adventure bikes, apart from running up & down bitumen motorways ) in the UK if you don't compete in motorcross or endure or such

I think there are still plenty of legal unsurfaced Rights of Way for vehicles in UK, as deereone says

 

[No5]

I think there are still plenty of legal unsurfaced Rights of Way for vehicles in UK, as deereone says

Unfortunately not. Many of the byways are being downgraded to bridleways or footpaths or TRO'd, meaning that the few that remain open get over used and damaged (mainly 4x4s creating deep ruts) which in turn means that councils shut them as well.
It seems to me that as a motorbike greenlaner we are not welcome anywhere. These bikers are not representative of the group I ride with and yet we are all tarred with the same brush!
The problem I see is that councils believe that if all the byways are closed that the people who take part in this hobby (whether 4x4 or bikes) are going to dissapear, when ultimately illegal off roading will increase.

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Farmer Roy]

This is what we do with the big " adventure " bikes here, in this case an Africa Twin. We try to avoid bitumen as much as we can

 

[Farmer Roy]

ps - all these pics are public access tracks / roads.

 

[Velocette]

Don't forget though that these bikes have only been seized,not permanently confiscated. Produce your documents and pay a fee and its yours again unless you are a persistent offender. Sec165 Road traffic act.
Madness !!!

 

[Happy hillbily]

This is what we do with the big " adventure " bikes here, in this case an Africa Twin. We try to avoid bitumen as much as we can

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18 years ago when i was working on a station outside broken hill nsw, managed to tag onto a ride with my boss and his mates, borrowed the farms yamaha tt350 and did nearly 1000km from the station to innamincka and back, all off the bitumen. Not been on a two wheeler motorbike since, (I loved the speed to much and would probably not live to long on a bike here in the UK) but would love to go back to Oz and do it again