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i raced my bike through school me and my 3 mates got suspended for 3 days.
we went trail riding! WINNER.
do it! we raced down escalotors and hotel stairs on the stw london street rides 🙂
don't pee in your own pool!
Use someone else's 10 floor staircase.
Practice at local multi storey car park?
This sounds brilliant.
About 12 years ago me and a couple of mates thought the local Waitrose Fire Escape stairs from 3 floors up were ripe for riding down, All went well until we thought a duel type race would be wise. It wasn't. The stairs were two narrow for two bikes and the corners were way too tight we were really lucky nobody went over the top.
Way back when, I ran a shop in Covent Garden. There was a nice set of about 10 steps from the top entrance. Drop to flat.
We had some lovely DH bikes in stock. The steps were hit. Hard. 🙂
I still have some CCTV footage of it somewhere! 8)
School was a split level site, me and a mate managed to get a top to bottom run whilst we were supposedly in maths.
Was repeated a few times at uni'. The agri halls of residence had very tight turns and very grippy carpet.
Another was to go through the automatic doors at Tesco, in one set, out another.
Get as many of you workmates in on it too, safety in numbers, they can't sack you all.
Turn it into some sort of indoor Mega-Stairvalanche style race, and when you get good challenge the office block next door. Pretty soon your team should be at a sufficient standard to challenge some of these 40 story city skyscrapers.
I'm sure I speak on behalf of all of us when I say we need pics or vids..
TandemJeremy - Member
Interesting one. so long as you don't put anyone in danger I don't see waht you could be disciplined for. Would amuse me to defend it
personnally I think they will work hard to find a reason to get rid, the obvious one is endangering yourself on work premises the H&S at Work Act applies to the employee as well as the employer.
someone once said to me "if you think the answer the the question is no, review the need to ask the question"
I would take this suggestion if you have to do it
garage-dweller - Member
don't pee in your own pool!Use someone else's 10 floor staircase.
jhw on the stairs at his work yesterday. Dude, you sound close to snapping. Go get a job as a postie.
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Now that triangular staircase looks like it would be great for this.
anyone else been looking for multi-storey carparks near them to try this?
no? just me then! 😳
jedi - Member
do it! we raced down escalotors and hotel stairs on the stw london street rides
Were they going up or down?
What if you fall off and break your leg. Will you sue them?
What if you run into someone and break their leg. Can they sue you?
😆
big_n_daft - Member
I think they will work hard to find a reason to get rid, the obvious one is endangering yourself on work premises the H&S at Work Act applies to the employee as well as the employer.
Yup, sackable all right !
Breach of either H&S &/or Fire Regs would be quoted as reason for dismissal - where I work (medium sized public sector site) an employee was sacked for riding bike through a pedestrianised "outside rest area" ie a few benches outside the canteen - so inside a building would have no chance IMO....
whether you get fired depends on where you work...
Lawyers (assuming his other posts are to be believed). Not promising I'd imagine.
jhw on the stairs at his work yesterday
Picture is perfectly suited to the thread
If I get caught I will certainly lose my job - the question is (1) whether I will get caught - I don't think so, the stairs themselves aren't covered by CCTV... and (2) if I do get caught, whether if I do it after resigning, while serving out my notice, that will somehow affect my legal position (it probably will...agreeable contractual termination becomes dismissal for gross misconduct...they will disclose this in references...).
The main thing is the staircases themselves, have to nail it first time as I only get one run...no dabs allowed, would defeat the purpose. They're steep and big steps, with metal plates so slippery, and every second landing is less than a wheelbase long, so I'll need to control my speed extremely well and be capable of beginning the turns before I get to the bottom of each set...and this is going to be at least 8 storeys...no breaks allowed...quite a tall order but doable in theory
If my position here terminates, you'll see the GoPro footage here first...
Well, if you don't want to get fired then obviously you need a disguise.
Make a mask of the colleague you like the least and wear that. I suggest printing his photo onto some card and carefully cutting out a mask using safety scissors, but you could go for the Hannibal Lecter method*
* except, then you would get fired for skinning a colleagues face and then wearing it, so don't do that...
I would fire you! And if you were already working your notice then gross misconduct usually means immediate dismissal with no notice pay. Anyone who approached me for a reference and asked why you left would be told. On your last day however it may not be worth the hassle and I'd just be glad to see the back of you.
If you really want to do it without getting fired, then could you not dress this up as a PR/Charity stunt and get buy-in from above? Perhaps using a danny mcaskill video to help build the excitement during the pitch. It will then require some risk assessments / disclaimers etc - but at least you ensure you won't meet fat Norma carrying a cup of coffee and a stack of papers coming the other way?
If we're getting all sensible about it why not just go in and do it the day after you leave?
could you not dress this up as a PR/Charity stunt
This. I remember reading about some running race up the stairwell of some skyscraper. I guess there would be a much higher chance of injury coming down on a bike, but surely there's no harm in asking whether you could do it for charity? You're obviously not too concerned about getting fired, so if they say no you could just do it anyway...
Most bosses would fire you.
However, if it were me I'd invite you into my office afterwards to discuss promotion prospects and a nice bonus. 🙂
No, I'm going to do this ninja style
Watch this space
UBS?
jhw works in a City law firm.
All of the lawyers at these places are the most uptight bunch of twuntweasels known to man.
DO IT..! 😈
Remember a similar situation when I was at uni.
Climbing club were given permission to absail down the out side but wouldn't let us ride down the inside.
Nah, not UBS (though in the square mile)
we rode down the escalators regrgless of their direction 🙂
Take a sponsorship form to your boss first, then claim that implied he gave permission.
I once skied down the flight of internal steps in the shop I worked in.
Christmas party, other joined in on boards and a sled. 180 turn was fun.
We didn't get fired....but we were getting goaded on by the owner to do it.
have worked in 3 shops with large stairs, its not worth working in such places with out hammering down the stairs!Tempted to try it in Uni now but I'm nearly sure I'd get booted out.
You're apparently the lawyer. And it is in a CITY LAW FIRM. So it must be CITY LAW as only CITY LAWYERS do CITY LAW. YOU SHOULD KNOW THE ANSWER.
@ Capt'n Flasheart which shop and when i worked in the yha store on southhampton st in bike dept 97/98
Tell them your doing it for Children in Need, pretty sure they would allow you then
OT nedrapier - you havent responded to any of my emails.... boo hoo..
Did you mtfu and do it then?!
*awaits vimeo link*
No - but I [i]will[/i] do this once my notice is in.
I have made progress on one front. I have established there is no CCTV coverage - I had been worried as a couple got busted for inappropriate activity over the Christmas period a while back - the rumour was that security caught them on CCTV but in fact what happened was they were so drunk that they didn't realise they were doing it in a lit up room with a glass wall opposite the Reprographics suite which stays open all night. So CCTV ought not to be a problem.
All fart no poo.
Are you calling me...a popcorn fart?
Just eagerly awaiting the day you tell the gobby girl to shut her cakehole and then leave the office via the stairwell on your bike. If its all a ruse it could be the biggest forum disappointment EVER. Personally I'm worried you have no follow through.
I scoped it - it's a f***ing big staircase! I will give this a shot in due course, don't worry.
Forum peer pressure is a surreal thing 🙂
"Better to have pressure from peers than have no peers" Sage Francis 😉