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BikeLife is an underground movement which sees motorbikers performing dangerous stunts on public roads. | 0:00:03 | 0:00:08 | |
See the police in the bushes behind me? | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
It's become a worldwide phenomenon that started in the US, | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
and has now exploded across the UK. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
They want to label us thugs, and we're not thugs. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
For the riders, it's a way of life, but the police see them as gangs, | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
and are determined to crack down | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
on the criminal menace they bring to our roads. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
They've killed two people in the space of two years on bikes, chasing them. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
You're lucky you're a police officer, innit, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
-I'll tell you that now, innit. -They can lock up ten people, | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
doesn't matter, you know how worldwide BikeLife is? | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
I'm in south-east London to meet Wavy, | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
one of the UK's most notorious riders. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
While I'm on the bike, I don't want my whole face in there. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
I don't want that on camera, bruv. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
We show respect when we're riding, we respect the people that are on the... | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
We respect pedestrians, we respect other cars, know what I'm saying? | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
And we even try and respect the police. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
Go on the left side of me, yeah? | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
We're on the Thamesmead estate, | 0:01:12 | 0:01:13 | |
one of the most deprived places in the UK, | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
where Wavy and other riders | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
regularly take over a strip of road to perform their stunts. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
But there's a battle brewing with police, | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
who have fears for public safety. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:24 | |
It doesn't take long for them to turn up in force. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
Wavy can't resist a bit of showboating to taunt the officers. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
They see we're not doing nothing wrong. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
They've sent the fucking chopper out. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
All that taxpayers' money | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
to come out and watch us do a few tricks up and down the road. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
Cos they're not going to catch no-one from this. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
As you can see, everyone's got their faces covered. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
We're not going to run from them. They've killed two people | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
in the space of two years. On bikes. Chasing them. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
Kids under the age of 20. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
They're the terrorists, they're the hooligans, | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
they're the ones that cause the trouble, not us. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
BikeLife is never going to stop, you know what I'm saying? | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
No matter how many choppers you send, no matter how many police cars | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
you send, BikeLife's never going to stop. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
It's true that two riders have been killed | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
whilst being pursued by police, | 0:02:09 | 0:02:10 | |
but in both cases the police say they were responding to reports | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
of robberies by people on mopeds. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
With the police buzzing round the strip, | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
the guys decide to load up their bikes and head to a nearby flat. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
Wavy introduces me to fellow riders Cones and Bubbles. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
You see the guys, the bus drivers, out the window, going like that. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
Doing the wanker sign when we drive past. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
With police pressure mounting, the guys are feeling defensive. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
In the papers, we're all drug dealers. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:39 | |
We're not drug dealers, I've been at work all day. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
You think that people think that you're all criminals, | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
riding around on stolen bikes? | 0:02:44 | 0:02:45 | |
Exactly. My bike's bought and paid for. I own it outright. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
If anyone steals a bike, it's the fucking police. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
They steal our fucking bikes. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:51 | |
-Yeah. For real. -See them tearing round the streets, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
popping the wheelies, and they think you're criminals. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
Police rolled up next to a man, the policeman said, | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
"I hope you fall off and die." And spun off. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
Going through puddles, trying to splash the bike with puddles and shit, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
you know what I mean? Trust me, they're scumbags, man. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
People think we're endangering the public, I'm not going to lie, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
there's scatty riders that jump on and off pavements. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
When we ride, it's like we're legit, but we're just doing wheelies, like, | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
30-40 mile an hour wheelies, maybe even slower, | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
do you know what I mean? | 0:03:16 | 0:03:17 | |
What happens if a kid runs out from behind a car? | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
What happens if a kid runs out from behind a car and a bus is coming? | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
What happens if a kid runs out behind a car and another car's coming? | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
If a kid runs out in front of you, what can you do about it, | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
-do you know what I mean? -Yeah, what happens? | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
For people that don't know the scene, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
people that have never ridden a bike, | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
they're going to be like, | 0:03:36 | 0:03:37 | |
these guys are putting themselves in danger. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
Why do you keep saying we're putting ourselves in danger? | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
Cos, well, you kind of are. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:43 | |
Imagine you've done nothing all your life, | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
you've played it safe all your life, | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
and then you get run over by a bus leaving your house. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
How would you... How... | 0:03:50 | 0:03:51 | |
Your soul leaving its body would be like, "You wanker, you wanker, | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
"you've wasted me all my life!" Know what I'm saying, like? | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
I'm out here living. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:00 | |
Wavy's meeting his brother at a boxing gym. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
I tagged along to find out what drives him to take such big risks. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
Come to see my little brother, striving to be a professional boxer, | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
training hard and that. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:15 | |
I'm just trying to be a professional rider, know what I'm saying? | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
Professional stunt rider. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:19 | |
That's what our goals are, know what I'm saying? | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
We just want to turn pro and everything. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
It's go hard or go home, innit? | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
This is my little brother, Jordan. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
Show them how you hit that. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
So casual. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:37 | |
I always used to try and copy him on the pedal bikes, you know, | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
trying to do my own wheelies and stuff, it just never happened. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
From our dad, I took the riding skills, | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
and he just took the boxing skills. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
He's got the more disciplined side of things. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
I was the reckless side of things. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
When I went to secondary school, I met the wrong people, | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
and I was doing the wrong things, I didn't have time for boxing no more. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
Basically, when we was younger everyone used to, like, | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
steal mopeds and steal cars and shit. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
One time, I was on a pizza bike, I look to my right, | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
and my mum was sitting at the lights with my dad | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
in the passenger seat, sitting at the lights, the first car. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
They're like this... | 0:05:10 | 0:05:11 | |
Watched me go past. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:14 | |
Literally, like, I'm looking at them, like, phone was ringing, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
know what I'm saying? I got home, like, "That was not me! | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
"I was at school all day! I was at school all day!" | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
Know what I'm saying? | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
-They knew. -They knew it was me, yeah. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:27 | |
Wavy, you seem to like to do things that relieve stress, | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
like punching a bag, riding a bike. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
To relieve stress, innit? | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
What do you want me to tell you? | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
Well, what is it? | 0:05:39 | 0:05:40 | |
What's so stressful about your life that you need to relieve | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
-stress all the time? -No-one wants to pay me for anything, | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
everyone wants everything off me for free. It's stressful. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
Even though many people see BikeLife as a menace, | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
Wavy tells me there's another side to it, | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
which I start to see the next time I'm on the estate. | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
So do you try and unload as fast as you can? | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
You've got to get your bike out the van and get away from it, lock it, | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
fill up and keep it moving. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
-Don't give the police any chance to stop you. -No. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
I'm surprised to see young kids there, | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
watching the riders perform their stunts. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
I asked them why they come down to watch. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
What do you think to the BikeLife? | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
Great. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:23 | |
Wheelie, that's what they do, that's their thing. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
They're just sick at riding. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:29 | |
It's just a good environment, like, to be round for me, | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
-cos I love motorbikes. -We just come down here to watch, | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
have a bit of fun and learn tricks when we drive motorbikes, | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
-when we have motorbikes. -What does your mum think about it? | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
She thinks it's all right. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:42 | |
And she's OK with you, like, coming down here and seeing... | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
-Yeah... -..these guys. -Yeah, she's all right with that, cos, like, | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
she knows, kind of like, yeah. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
It's like they like it more than us, do you know what I mean? | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
Like, like I said, when I was that age, 12, nine and shit, | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
all I was thinking about was bikes, you know what I mean? | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
And when I seen bikes, | 0:06:58 | 0:06:59 | |
I would be running to see that person on a bike, | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
-if I hear them over the field. -Do they teach you things, then? | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
Yeah, Cones is teaching me stuff all the time. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
Popping wheelies, stuff like that. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
Whenever I see him, he says, "try this, young Cones", | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
stuff like that, so I try it. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:14 | |
They're going to be the next ones out killing the bikes | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
when we're too old to hurt ourselves, | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
they're going to be the ones we're watching. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
Gotta show the kids love as well, man. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
What were you like before you started riding? | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
I didn't even care about school. I didn't even really want to go. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
So, now, just, as soon as I get home, I do work. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:31 | |
I go to school, do my work, come home, get dressed, | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
go straight on my bike. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
Wheelie around with my mates. So if I had a stressed day at school, | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
it'll calm me down, going on my bike. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:40 | |
They look up to us, you know what I'm saying? | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
Like, it's more positive than looking up to a gang member | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
or whatever, you know what I'm saying? | 0:07:45 | 0:07:46 | |
In America, it's guns down, bikes up. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
Out here, knives down, bikes up, | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
same thing, you know what I'm saying? | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
Teach kids about bikes, they'll never have money for drugs. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
These things ain't cheap, mate, you feel me? | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
The more time I spend on the Thamesmead estate, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
the more the BikeLife scene surprises me. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
It's clear the boys on the estate see the older riders as stars, | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
but what I wasn't expecting | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
was the riders spending so much time teaching them new skills. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
Another big surprise is when Wavy tells me he's treating himself | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
with a trip to Miami. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
But once again, it's all about BikeLife. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
Boy, this is my second trip to the US, | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
so going Miami this time. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
For the MLK Rideout. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
Yeah. One of the biggest rideouts of the year. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
There's going to be hundreds and hundreds of bikes there. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
South Beach is the spot. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:41 | |
Look, there's people riding around with no helmets on. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
Wavy might be one of the top riders in the UK, | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
with over 50,000 followers on Instagram, | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
but the American scene is so much bigger. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
See, Miami Weekend is the weekend. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
Hundreds of riders from across the States take over the Miami streets | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
on Martin Luther King Day. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
It's not only the place to be seen, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
but also a great event to show off their skills via social media. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:09 | |
But for Wavy to take part, he needs a bike. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
After travelling so far, he doesn't want to miss out on the main event. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
Everyone's bikes is booked up from early, | 0:09:16 | 0:09:18 | |
so you've got to know if that person's got the bike or not. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
You feel me? Especially if you're coming from fucking London. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
Desperate to ride, | 0:09:24 | 0:09:25 | |
Wavy is turning to other riders to see if anyone can loan him a bike. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
Hey listen, I'm going to just go to Jimmy's crib, bro. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:30 | |
But I want to see if there's a bike there I can ride. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
-I need to ride, fam. -Fed up with waiting, Wavy? | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
Yeah, man, I can't wait, bruv. I'm out here to ride. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
Like, I didn't come out here to stand outside shit. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
So, Wavy, you riding? | 0:09:42 | 0:09:43 | |
Maybe. Hopefully. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:46 | |
What did homeboy say? Nah. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
A rider Wavy knows through Instagram finally pulls through. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
Look, this is my bro, yeah? | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
-What's it? Harlem? Where are you? Queens? The Bronx. -From the Bronx. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
Bronx? Get me? | 0:09:58 | 0:09:59 | |
BX to fucking 305 North London to the 305... | 0:09:59 | 0:10:03 | |
Trust me. Bikes bring bonds. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
Holding me down. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
So we're doing it, trust me. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:10 | |
He brought a bike from fucking... | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
all the way from NY to Miami, just for me to ride. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:15 | |
Having got himself a bike, Wavy finally gets to ride. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
Seeing Wavy on his bike, I'm beginning to understand | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
why he takes such extreme risks on the road. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
It's what we love to do, innit? | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
It's what makes us feel most alive, innit? | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
You don't feel more alive than when you're dancing with death. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:34 | |
But Wavy's Miami ride doesn't last long, | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
as the police are out in force. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
It was only for, like, 20 minutes, man. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
They had task force out, | 0:10:41 | 0:10:42 | |
undercover police cars parked at fucking all the gas stations. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
Like, parked near them. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
So when they saw the bikes pull in, they just swerved out, innit? | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
It was all mad. It was all mad yesterday. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
People was getting fucking bikes taken left, right and centre. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
And there is worse news. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:57 | |
Remember Shiny? He fell, like an hour ago, had to go to the hospital. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:01 | |
-You witnessed an accident. What happened there? -Yeah, man. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
I see a guy crash his bike | 0:11:04 | 0:11:05 | |
and basically, I don't know, apparently... | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
Apparently he died. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:09 | |
But, yeah, he was... | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
He crashed his bike right in front of me, basically. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
Does that not make you think that you're taking your life | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
-in your hands when you ride? -Yeah, course, I know that, though. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
Listen. Everyone ain't me. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
Certain people got it, certain people haven't got it. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:26 | |
Know what I'm saying? No matter what he was doing, | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
nobody deserves to go out like that, you know what I'm saying? | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
Came out here to have fun and didn't make it home. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
Who knows if he has a family, whatever, you know what I'm saying? | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
He didn't make it home. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
He didn't make it home, it's fucked up. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
Back in the UK, and the Thamesmead estate has been attracting riders from across the country. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:56 | |
The increased action has brought more police attention, | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
so Wavy is looking for a new spot to ride. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
It's not always been like this. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
What's happened to make it like this now? | 0:12:07 | 0:12:09 | |
Some dickheads that don't know what they're doing | 0:12:09 | 0:12:12 | |
and just want to cause trouble, | 0:12:12 | 0:12:13 | |
kicking police cars and all that bullshit. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
What do you look for, like, when you're looking for a new strip? | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
You can ride there at night, that's the best. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:23 | |
If it's lit up and it's smooth, | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
away from houses where there's going to be at least people | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
who could, like, complain, you know what I'm saying? | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
I'm just trying to see if we can go to, like, a different strip, innit? | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
Change it up a bit. Cos it's getting a bit hot there. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
Every time we go there, the police come. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
Is that what you have to do, then? Keep finding new strips? | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
I try to. Not out here to terrorise the police. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
I've been looking at this one here. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
Wavy leads us into an industrial estate. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
That's a private road as well. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
These are all private roads here. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
For riders, private roads make better strips, | 0:12:54 | 0:12:57 | |
as they believe police can't make an arrest | 0:12:57 | 0:12:59 | |
without a complaint from the landowner. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:01 | |
No, I like this, I think this one's calm, man. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
I've heard that Cones is in trouble, | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
and could be facing serious jail time because of BikeLife. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
Basically, I went up to Manchester, | 0:13:18 | 0:13:21 | |
was having a little ride around on the street, | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
and then the police come, | 0:13:23 | 0:13:24 | |
started following us in helicopters and all that. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
The chase went on for three hours. Obviously, yeah, I'd got caught. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:30 | |
One of the police officers said that I actually ran over his foot, | 0:13:30 | 0:13:32 | |
then I tried to ride back to run him over. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
So that's why it's been transferred to Crown Court, | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
but that's basically a lie, do you know what I mean? | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
I wouldn't use my bike as a weapon against police or anyone. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
The case don't look too good because of what the police officer's saying. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
I'd do anything not to get a custodial sentence right about now. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
I've pled guilty. I've put my hands up to what I've done, | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
but I've always been brought up | 0:13:52 | 0:13:54 | |
that riding bikes or whatever is not a serious crime. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
You can make it serious, | 0:13:57 | 0:13:58 | |
like going on the roads and getting into crazy chases, | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
and, yeah, if you crash into someone, it's a serious crime. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
But, to me, I've not looked at BikeLife like it's a serious crime. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
27-year-old Cones has a young daughter. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:11 | |
And with the prospect of going to prison, | 0:14:11 | 0:14:13 | |
does he really feel BikeLife is worth the risk? | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
-Do you ride every day? -Nah, I don't ride every day. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
I try to ride as minimum as possible now, | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
because... you know, | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
I live on the estate where we ride, so I'm well known around here. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
I can see, even with this, there is a lot of risks to it. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:29 | |
For me, personally, I'm taking a lot of risks, do you know what I mean? | 0:14:29 | 0:14:33 | |
Cause, you know...my flat, if I get caught for riding, | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
I'll lose my flat, I'll go back to jail, you know what I mean? | 0:14:36 | 0:14:40 | |
It's going to affect my daughter and staff if I go back to jail, | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
so, yeah, I'm taking a lot of risks, | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
but, at the end of the day, I love this. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
They'll literally have to take my arms so I can't grab a bike, | 0:14:46 | 0:14:51 | |
you know what I mean, before I stop riding. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:53 | |
Talking to Cones, I can see how much BikeLife means to him, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
despite the trouble he's in. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:58 | |
He loves riding and the thought of giving it up is killing him. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:02 | |
Outside, he introduces me to the mechanic of their group. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:06 | |
I'd do anything for these boys. It's like family, innit. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
23-year-old Liam, a plumber, | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
also has a family, and he too has something to say about the police. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:16 | |
I'm not a criminal. I'm a man with kids. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:19 | |
A missus. I've got shit going on in life, | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
you know what I'm trying to say, but I just love riding my bike. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
Today's ride will have to wait, | 0:15:25 | 0:15:27 | |
as the cat and mouse game with the police continues. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
Just another day in Thamesmead, the bird's out. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:32 | |
If they're looking for someone on a motorbike, | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
they should be putting their money to better use. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
Once the coast is clear, they make their way through the estate | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
to the strip. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:41 | |
The strip is usually quiet but it's still a public road. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
There are learner drivers and pedestrians | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
who find themselves getting in the way. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
The situation is far from ideal. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:56 | |
I've heard bikers say they need a proper place to ride | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
but I'm unsure how this will ever happen. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
Liam is quick to defend the riders | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
and their reputation as a public nuisance. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
They want to label us thugs, yeah, we're not thugs. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:10 | |
We ain't thugs. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:11 | |
No-one can take this away from me. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
Otherwise jog on, that's the way I look at it. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
No disrespect to anyone, but we're not kids, we're just having fun, | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
releasing that inner stress. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
I don't want to go home and take stress out on my family, | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
-so I take it out on this bad boy here. -How is it having a little one? | 0:16:23 | 0:16:27 | |
Don't get me wrong, you have to be careful, because if I hurt myself | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
I can't go to work, then I can't feed him. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:31 | |
I have to always think about them, you know? | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
This is my freedom, this is me, this is my time, | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
but I've still got them on my mind. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
But this is BikeLife, I love it. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
You know what I'm trying to say, I love this shit. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:44 | |
The riders all seem to love the risk of riding, but I wonder if there's | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
anything that could ever stop them. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
The next time I see Liam, he's in hospital. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
Can't really see the full extent, | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
but my bone's come through my foot. | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
While riding the strip, | 0:17:03 | 0:17:04 | |
Liam came off his bike after hitting another rider. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
So I'm just here a couple more days then I'll be riding soon. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:12 | |
What's going to happen with work and stuff? | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
I'm self-employed, so now this has done me. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
I can't even earn a penny. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
I've got friends and family, | 0:17:21 | 0:17:23 | |
support which I'm very grateful for, but being a man, | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
that depresses me because I can't earn my money. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
I'm fucked, basically. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
There's no insurance, there's no pay-out, there's nothing, | 0:17:31 | 0:17:34 | |
it's just suffer. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
Like I say, this is the risk we're all taking. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
This is the risk that, yeah, we're aware of | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
but we don't really think of. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
I want people to see this and know that we have to deal with stuff | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
like this to get to the level we're at. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:47 | |
Do you think if there were somewhere for you to ride, | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
-this might not have happened? -Yeah, no, I don't think, I know. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
If we had somewhere properly to go, yeah, | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
supervised proper place, this wouldn't happen. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
None of this would happen. | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
But like I say, that's the risk we take. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
BikeLife. BikeLife till I'm dead, you know. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
I'm not stopping. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:06 | |
Sunday is usually a big day for the riders in Thamesmead. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
But today something is different. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
It seems as though Wavy was right to start avoiding the strip, | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
because police are here and are carrying out a major crackdown. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
Tell me what's going on. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:31 | |
We're down the strip, waiting for the bikes, | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
but loads of police turn up, | 0:18:34 | 0:18:35 | |
and they're just blocking the roads off. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
The police are over there, and then the bikes don't want to get | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
caught, so he's obviously gone back because he's on his own. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
It's unusual to see the street so quiet, | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
but police have blocked every entrance to the estate | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
in a major operation. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
I don't really see the point in the police trying to stop them. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
They're not doing any harm. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:54 | |
There could be people out there shooting, robbing these houses, | 0:18:54 | 0:18:58 | |
burning them and all stuff like that, | 0:18:58 | 0:19:00 | |
and then spend it on there, like, look, like this, yeah. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
And then they come down here | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
and then just start spoiling all their fun for no reason. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
They just get annoyed with it, | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
that's why they argue about it by saying, "Give us somewhere to ride." | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
It's true, though. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
With no-one on the strip, | 0:19:20 | 0:19:21 | |
I take a ride with Bubbles to find out what's going on. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:25 | |
Obviously, they've got some sting operation going on. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
They've been pulling up the motorbikes today. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
But it's not long before we attract attention ourselves. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:33 | |
Now we're being stopped by the police. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:35 | |
The police are behind us, yeah? | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
-This is Joel from the BBC. -OK, mate. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
OK, can you tell us why you've stopped us, please? | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
We're being stopped because of the BikeLife sticker on Bubbles' car. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:48 | |
Whilst we're split up, the police do a search of the vehicle. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
After finding nothing, we are let go. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
Just got stopped by the police, and now they're sort of like, | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
they went over the car but, obviously, the police have got | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
a big operation going on, as you can see. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
Look, we're back on the strip and more police. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
It looks like they've shut it down today. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
No bikes are coming over here at all, | 0:20:07 | 0:20:08 | |
because the police have blocked off all the roads. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
The police are taking a zero tolerance approach | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
towards anyone that looks like they could be part of BikeLife. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
The moped rider has been stopped due to a faulty mudguard. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
I've done nothing wrong. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
It is roadworthy, it's got three years' warranty, | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
three years' MOT, three years' tax, three years' everything. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
This is the highlight of your day, to come and bully me. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
There's people robbing shops and burgling people and that, | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
and you can go and stop them right now, but you've got one, two, | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
three cars and a riot van driving up and down here just for us. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
Come on, really? We're not causing trouble. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
This is keeping us out of trouble. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:44 | |
My bike's all legit and now they're telling me it's not legit. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
They're telling me my bike is not legit on the road. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
even though I have insurance, MOT, tax, everything. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
They're telling the front wheel's out of line, everything. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
They're just lying. They just lie, man, look. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
They're going to try take it off me, | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
I don't know what they're going to do. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
It makes you feel better when you go home and sleep at night. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
Sweet, mate. You don't need all this police. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
For one bike and a couple of pushbikes! | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
The police say the bike's not roadworthy. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:09 | |
They think the front brake is defective. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
Ha, you's lot, you're just bullies, innit? | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
If I chuck that on the floor, you going to do me for littering? | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
Can be done. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:18 | |
They give the rider two hours to get home, | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
and the bike will need a new MOT before he can legally ride it again. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:25 | |
That's your fault, you know. You're lucky you're a police officer, init. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
I'll tell you that now. If you weren't a police officer, | 0:21:30 | 0:21:32 | |
I'd whack you in the jaw, you know that. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
It can't be denied that the police have made a big difference | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
to the Thamesmead estate today, | 0:21:38 | 0:21:40 | |
but I can see how angry some of the young men now are. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:42 | |
Your mums don't love ya! | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
I asked the police about this. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
They won't appear on camera, but in a statement they tell me that | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
dangerous and reckless riding has been affecting the safety of the | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
community, and that they've made five arrests for offences including | 0:21:53 | 0:21:57 | |
being unfit to drive and other traffic violations. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
I find out one of those arrested is Cones, | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
who was visited by the police at his home | 0:22:04 | 0:22:06 | |
and then immediately sent to prison. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:08 | |
I was meant to meet Cones down there on Sunday, | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
but I heard he got arrested Sunday morning, you know what I'm saying. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
Like, police, they came early Sunday morning, | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
raided his house, basically, | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
and arrested him for riding a dirt bike on the road. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
Because he's on a ban. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:22 | |
It's messed up, what they've done. They raided him when it was just him | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
-and his six-year-old daughter in bed. -Exactly that. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
They're going to traumatise a six-year-old girl | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
who's going to see her dad getting arrested, | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
at six years old, over him riding a bike. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
Now people are going to wonder why she hates police all her life. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
-Trust me. -You know what I'm saying. That's why, because they came in | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
and they've took her dad away from her while he was looking after her. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:44 | |
Strange men came in the house... | 0:22:44 | 0:22:45 | |
-Not even for murder, for riding his bike. -It's crazy. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:50 | |
The police say Cones was arrested because they see him as one of | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
the main BikeLife organisers on the estate. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
Do you think it would try to help if you try to open up a dialogue with | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
the police? If you tried to speak to the police and say, | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
-"Look, just give us..." -Tried it. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
-You tried that, what happened? -We always try things like that. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
"Oh, we'll be in touch with you..." They're enjoying that, | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
they love that, they love chasing you, they get a thrill from it. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
Just like we get a thrill from wheelieing down the road, | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
they get a thrill from chasing down a bike, you know what I'm saying. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
What's the future for BikeLife if the police carry on like this? | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
It's going to carry on going the same way it's going now. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
Getting bigger and bigger and bigger. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:24 | |
This doesn't, this is not a scratch | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
on the surface, you don't understand. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
They've locked up one person through BikeLife. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
Or they lock-up...they could lock up ten people, it don't matter. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
Do you know how worldwide BikeLife is? | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
Saudi Arabia. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:38 | |
Africa. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:39 | |
Jamaica. They see us as a gang. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
We're not a gang. We're a movement. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
Liam is out of hospital, | 0:23:52 | 0:23:53 | |
and his injuries have earned him respect with the boys. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
How did he do that? | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
Disgusting. | 0:23:58 | 0:23:59 | |
See, you know he's a true rider. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:02 | |
I head over to his house to check in on him. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
How you doing, mate, you all right? | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
-What's happening, mate, how you doing? -Good. How's your foot? | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
Getting better. Getting better, mate. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
Are you worried that you could be nicked soon? | 0:24:11 | 0:24:13 | |
In a way, yeah, they could, they could nick anyone. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
But, at the same time, | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
what can I do? I can't be worried about it. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
Yeah, I'm worried in a way, | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
but give me somewhere to go and I won't ride there. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
Obviously, I understand, they've got a duty to do and whatever else, | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
but I believe they're doing it in the wrong way. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
Do think you you might be trying to get your message to them or to other | 0:24:32 | 0:24:36 | |
people in the wrong way by riding on public roads? | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
Yeah, don't get me wrong, we are. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
We shouldn't be doing it and we know that. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:43 | |
I worry that a kid's going to step out into the road. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
Yeah, I worry about that all the time, don't get me wrong. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:49 | |
It can happen. My missus takes my dogs for walks, my son, | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
I don't want to have them in danger by people riding dirt bikes. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
I want him to do wheelies and that if he wants, | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
but it's not something I'd ever push him into, though, | 0:24:59 | 0:25:02 | |
because it's a dangerous sport. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:03 | |
Hello. You going on the motorbike? | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
What does a motorbike do? Does it go "bing"? | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
Bing, bing! | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
Can you go like that? Bing, bing! | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
Does he like riding a bike? | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
He loves them. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:21 | |
Trust me, he comes on them with me. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
He's got a little helmet and whatnot. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:27 | |
I just literally hold on to one side and he rides it, | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
does the throttle a little bit. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
It's been the last, like, month or so, | 0:25:32 | 0:25:34 | |
he's been able to actually move the throttle | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
so it actually brings it obviously on, | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
and yeah, we pootle about. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:41 | |
It's quality. Right, he wants me to get off | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
because he wants to do it himself. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
See what I mean? Look. See? | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
He's not even two yet. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:49 | |
When's he going to get his first bike? | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
I keep saying for his third birthday, | 0:25:52 | 0:25:54 | |
but I'll probably end up getting it before. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
There. Help me service it. | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
Look, my chain, look. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:00 | |
See, he wants to do it, he knows about tools | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
and he tries to help as if he's fixing it, | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
so I let him think he is, do you know what I mean? | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
His mum hates it, because we get all filthed up and dirty but he's a kid, | 0:26:09 | 0:26:12 | |
he's a boy, I would never let him get hurt. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:14 | |
I'm going to take him in anyway. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:16 | |
There's the chopper out now. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
-Someone's riding. -Someone's probably out riding now. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
For many of the young men on the estate, | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
BikeLife is something they are born into, and while Liam can see | 0:26:29 | 0:26:32 | |
the dangers it might pose, I can't ever see him giving it up. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
I catch up with Cones's girlfriend, Kirsty, | 0:26:44 | 0:26:46 | |
to see how Cones's prison stretch | 0:26:46 | 0:26:48 | |
is affecting her and their daughter, Lily-Mae. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:50 | |
-Do you understand why he rides? -I do and I don't. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:54 | |
It must be the adrenaline. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
It's in his blood. His parents were both riders. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:59 | |
I think he probably had his first bike when he was probably younger | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
than our daughter is now. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:04 | |
Is it hard sharing Luke with that side of his life? | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
It can be. But I don't know, I suppose... | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
..if you don't let him go and do what he wants to do, | 0:27:11 | 0:27:13 | |
it wouldn't really be fair. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
I obviously look after our daughter, | 0:27:15 | 0:27:17 | |
and he obviously goes out and has fun. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
-Is it hard now he can't be there for her? -Yes, of course it is. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:23 | |
Because now I have to look after her and try and struggle with work, | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
but that's life. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
Life could get even tougher for Kirsty because Cones | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
is facing another 18-month sentence for the Manchester case. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
If the sentencing doesn't fall in Cones's favour, | 0:27:35 | 0:27:37 | |
then that affects you in quite a big way, won't it? | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
Yeah, of course it will, | 0:27:40 | 0:27:41 | |
because I'll be left on my own with my daughter again. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
It seems the police operations have worked, | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
as the strip is still empty with no signs of bikes at all. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:56 | |
The police are saying they'll continue to crack down on any bikers | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
in the area, in an effort to shut down BikeLife for good. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
People in that area might be like, "The police seem to have done a good | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
"thing here and stopped the bikes from coming." | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
Well, they're in for a shock. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
Them ones, they are in for a shock because the police didn't do it, | 0:28:11 | 0:28:15 | |
nothing of the sort. We decided not to go there any more. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
It was a decision that we made. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:20 | |
We'd like to find a new strip anyway. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:22 | |
Going to the same place is boring. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
Cones is out of prison. He served eight weeks inside | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
for his London arrest and got another driving ban | 0:28:29 | 0:28:31 | |
with a suspended sentence for the previous Manchester case. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:34 | |
He seems relieved to have avoided any further jail time. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:38 | |
It gives you enough time to reflect on your life, | 0:28:38 | 0:28:40 | |
and it has made me think, | 0:28:40 | 0:28:41 | |
when I come out I want to do things different. | 0:28:41 | 0:28:43 | |
You know, I'm not going to be out there, | 0:28:43 | 0:28:44 | |
getting my face out there, doing wheelies up and down in places | 0:28:44 | 0:28:48 | |
where I know that it's a risk of me getting caught. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
I have to keep my nose clean for 18 months, | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
or I'm going away for 15 months. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:56 | |
All I want to do, really, | 0:28:56 | 0:28:57 | |
is just dedicate most of my time to my family. | 0:28:57 | 0:28:59 | |
I've got a lot of making up to do. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:01 | |
Just try and stay out of trouble, | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
but I'll be back on the crosses again, | 0:29:04 | 0:29:06 | |
don't worry about that, do you know what I mean? | 0:29:06 | 0:29:08 | |
As soon as my ban's out of the way, Thamesmead, wow, | 0:29:08 | 0:29:11 | |
they are going to have the worst day of their life when my ban is over, | 0:29:11 | 0:29:14 | |
because I'm going to be out there absolutely taking the piss. | 0:29:14 | 0:29:18 | |
Despite all the battles with police over Sewell Road, | 0:29:18 | 0:29:21 | |
Wavy is still 100% BikeLife and has already found a new place to ride. | 0:29:21 | 0:29:25 | |
It's not like I'm pulling out my bike | 0:29:25 | 0:29:27 | |
to come and terrorise your street, | 0:29:27 | 0:29:29 | |
and get in your way and be a nuisance, know what I'm saying? | 0:29:29 | 0:29:32 | |
All I'm doing is, I'm coming out and putting my work in, | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
like, if you're a boxer you're going to go to the gym and train, | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
spar, hit the bag, you know what I'm saying? | 0:29:38 | 0:29:39 | |
If you're a runner, you're going to go to the track and run and train, | 0:29:39 | 0:29:43 | |
you know what I'm saying? If you're a swimmer you'll go to the pool | 0:29:43 | 0:29:47 | |
and train. I'm saying, like, I'm a rider. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:49 | |
I need somewhere to train. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:51 | |
If you ain't got the resources around you, | 0:29:51 | 0:29:53 | |
you've got to make it happen. | 0:29:53 | 0:29:55 | |
That's why we have to hit the streets. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:57 | |
The only way I'm going to stop riding | 0:29:57 | 0:30:00 | |
is when I'm buried and I'm six foot, you know what I'm saying, | 0:30:00 | 0:30:03 | |
when I'm six foot deep? | 0:30:03 | 0:30:05 | |
BikeLife to the death, to the fullest, that's it, simple. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 |