You've got to be over 18 to buy those crap, bendy, white picnic knives n forks in supermarkets nowadays. Can't even let your kids stab a pork pie properly.
My dad, a mild-mannered civil servant, used to make walking sticks and shepherds crooks. Used to have a whole range of knives and saws in the car for chopping down bits of hazel, etc. The boot looked like a serial killers wet dream!
PC - What is your valid reason for carrying that kind of knife on a bike ride?
Mountain Biker - It's for cutting cake?
PC - You're nicked mate....
Little sis, the lawyer advises - The reason must be valid. extremely valid. Blade length will be irrelevant by the time it gets to her. Even if it's "legal" it can still be an offensive weapon. And it will be a police officer that will decide.
For example if you buy a knife in a shop you must take it straight home. If you go via another shop, you no longer have a valid reason for carrying it. In real life you would think some common sense applies but obviously lawyers have dealt with such cases.
In real life you would think some common sense applies butobviouslylawyers ...have dealt with such cases.
My Topeak Alien has a locking blade. Gets carried on most MTB rides I do and quite often on commutes.
Last Summer we had a small picnic on the grass in front of Exeter Cathedral. While my wife set out the spread I popped off to the loo...
"Everyone's been staring at me" says wife on my return.
"Er, yes", says I, " probably something to do with the 9" carving knife you're using to butter the bread".
(Spent the rest of the picnic wondering if someone might call the rozzers and whether 'picnic' was a valid excuse to be waving such cutlery around in the middle of a city.)
I carry a knife with me at all times, in an urban environment. I find it very useful in obtaining essentials such as iPhones, laptops, spensive cams, jewellery etc, which I can then turn into narcotic substances which are vital in helping me escape the mundanity of everyday life....
Fred.....noted.
What happened to the days of all blokes from small boys up having a knife? .I bought my eldest his swiss army knife when he was nine he is now twenty one and it is still in use
carry a knife with me at all times, in an urban environment. I find it very useful in obtaining essentials such as iPhones, laptops, spensive cams, jewellery etc, which I can then turn into narcotic substances which are vital in helping me escape the mundanity of everyday life....
And also good for stabbing members of your rival ethnic minority gang from the next ghetto .
I used to carry one of these around all the time, beautiful little knife, very ergonomic and comfortable in the hand. The blade is barely two inches long. It's called a CoPilot, and up until 9/11 it was one of the fewknives you could carry onto an aircraft. Sadly, no longer made by Spyderco, and I won't carry mine anymore in case I lose it, quite apart from the fact it cost nearly £70. I absolutely refuse to use any knife without a locking blade, for reasons of personal health and safety. My knives are always sharp and it's very easy to have a Swiss Army Knife blade close on your fingers during heavy use. Happened to me, and it was only because I had thick gloves on saved me from a very deep and nasty cut.
i always carry a cheap leatherman copy in my back pack? Mostly use the pliers but have used the knife a few times. This was me on my last ride :-
Here we are again, people arguing and agonising over moot points of law that affect everyday activities. I carry a victorinox every day at work on my belt and when stopped in Belfast city airport was aked if I would like it disposed of, I declined the offer and took it back to my van and left it there. Strangely I wasn't arrested but if they had found the 9" carving knife in my toolbox they might have done.
I also have a Gerber Suspension I always carry on rides and all nine of the blades lock, wonder where I stand on that?
And also good for stabbing members of your rival ethnic minority gang from the next ghetto .
I'm actually quite indiscriminate in who I stab...
Fred.....noted.
You'll nevah take me alive, Copper...
Probably better that way 
I used my knife to make my sandwiches
The knife was given to me by my mother - it was a family heirloom.
Only a 7" sheath knife. I nearly did a week fo that. Bastard ruddy cop - I have had to make do with my second best knife since then. the grip is plastic not leather Ruddy cops
So why cant a responsible white middle class by walk around with a knfe?
So - how many of you wannabes have done time for your knives
Or are you just wannabes
I'm more likely to do time for what my knife cuts than for the knife to be honest.
In all seriousness, the biggest blade I've ever carried was a bone handled sheath knife when I was 13/14 and used to go bivvying with my mates in the countryside.
We'd find a decent rock outcrop and build out from it with branches and thatch with bracken, make a fire and cook veg scrumped from the village gardens.
If challenged whilst scrumping we didn't draw our 'blades', we just legged it.
If I got caught carrying one of these I'm pretty damn sure I would do time, little justification for carrying one, other than to spoil someone's day:
A mate has one, just because he could afford it and wanted one. Never carried it, for obvious reasons.
People carry knives whilst riding, to cut cake and apples? 
whilst on a scout night hike many years back we heard a car skidding and crashing
off to investigate we emerged from some bushes onto a road to find 2 coppers
assuming we had run from the car they searched us
we all had knives on us of some form once they had seen our scarves and scout warrant books they just took our names and let us on our way they never even mentioned the knives it wasnt till we told our group leader later that he pointed out we could have got into trouble for the knives
(wasnt the dumbest thing we did that night -dared each other to walk accross a frozen canal, fortunately the ice was even thicker than us)
I'm pretty sure there is a knife on my Topeak AlienII, I know it locks closed, it might even lock open too.
Small locking blade on my top peak tool. Used it to cut some repair patches into
halves when I shredded a tube - I'd given my tube away earlier to someone in a
similar predicament.
Went tubeless from then on!
Did get some strange looks from the police once when crossing the road with on of these.
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I think I was drunk when I contributed to this thread last night
Hardly shows at all 
I've got an 11" kukri that my girlfriend brought back for me from Nepal.
It's a beautiful thing, very nice to handle, sharp enough to carve meat and heavy enough to chop wood.
I probably wouldn't stand a chance of arguing in court that I had a legitimate use for it, despite it being a useful hybrid of a hand axe, a machete and a carving knife.
Granted, they're very deadly in the hands of someone who wants them to be, but they're also used as household tools all over nepal. You could say the same about a 4lb lump hammer.
Shame. It's come in handy lots of times, I'd take it with me much more often if I wasn't so likely to get banged up for it.
this is mine, never leave home without it
Chriiist, Count Zero, that is a really nasty looking piece of kit.
make a real mess of anywhere you happened to put it!
I used to have a CRKT M16, which i found to be a great knife, but i rarely carried it, and then lost it. (it may well be in the house somewhere)
A Knife that can be used as a bike
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