alex richardson was one of the victims. he is a professional cyclist.down again and took out this machete, at which point i thought, right, they are going to take this, so i had better leave it at that. the attacks have left cyclists in london fearful. these are members of the islington cycling club, which is the biggest in the capital. what was your reaction when you heard about what had happened to alex richardson? it was absolutely horrendous. it got sort of shared between all of us, and as soon as the news came out, everyone was sharing the story. we have had instances of things like this happening to some of our club members previously, but it never sort of was this bad. people would be shoved off a bike, but they were never weapons but there were never weapons involved, or anything like that. it is really terrible, horrendous. really quite scary, and i would certainly think twice about riding on my own now. really? yes, absolutely. i probably wouldn't ride on my own in the evenings now. the use of mopeds to carry out street robberies is hardly new