Moped gang Goodrich School Thursday afternoon

[jamesbond2007]

Did anyone else witness the gang of youths on mopeds this afternoon, swerving all over the road, giving motorists grief? They came along Goodrich and turned down into Dunstans (Peckham Rye Park direction)

All the kids coming out of school. Awful. Have reported it to the police though what they can do I don't know. I actually found the whole thing really scary.

[TedMaul]

Mopeds (and to a lesser extent the dirt/scrambler bikes) seem to now be an established status symbol among some cultural sections of the young adults of today, and not just in London.

I'm sure most own them legally, and use them largely to get to A to B, but peer-group pressure/social media bragging/Grand Theft Auto fantasising means that they sometimes ride recklessly in public. The hope is that - like the actual criminal incidents this year - serious incidents or persistent antisocial behaviour will be dealt with by the police, including bystanders taking photos and motorists submitting dashcam footage.

In the summer holidays there was a sidestreet near the Morrisons on Walworth Road that - on a few successive bus journeys - bikes were using as a drag racing strip in broad daylight. I wonder what action was taken by locals.

I'd be interested in people's observations on whether there has been a noticeable increase in mopeds (and also high-powered bikes in general) being more recklessly ridden on the roads of South East London, or whether statistically it's just that more people are buying them - and also whether motorcyclists themselves feel any more under threat of their bikes being stolen..

[dimples]

There were two of them doing erratic driving in and out of traffic and up and down grove vale today at midday .

Often see them up and down lordship lane and coming off the main drag into Goodrich road in the evening