Wandsworth issuing PCNs to "speeding" cyclists on Tooting Bec Common

[Rockets]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/wandsworth-council-speeding-fines-cyclists-tooting-bec-common-b1262735.html

[malumbu]

Do you have a view?  I would have expected that it is difficult to enforce as bikes don't have, and don't need to have, speedometers.  But we've debated that ad infinitum before.  It would be good to have new things to discuss.  I'll shut up......

[exdulwicher]

2 hours ago, malumbu said:

Do you have a view?  

It's standard for Rockets to just drop in a headline with no other text, no opinion (at this stage anyway!) and no wider discussion points.

Also (from reading the article) it was one fine which was subsequently rescinded. They usually are - even when there are allegedly local byelaws to "enforce" some sort of action against speeding cyclists, no-one is aware of it and most don't have a speedo and most of the very occasional enforcement is so embarrassingly over the top that the council will eventually just sigh and let it go.

The Royal Parks (notably Richmond) have occasional "crackdowns" on speeding cyclists which then ends up in an interminable back-and-forth as to whether or not speed limits apply to bikes (they don't) and whether or not Richmond Park has a byelaw to cover it (it does / it doesn't / it does again / it doesn't / oh no it really doesn't...). 

What do we reckon for this one? 8 pages? Can we run a sweepstake on how many times someone suggests number plates and road tax for cyclists? Or can we just pick one of the eighteen older threads where this sort of nonsense has been done to death by the same people and reference that?