“I was like a rabbit in the headlights. I just went completely blank,” says Bethan Lloyd Glass, as she recalls the terrifying moment she was pushed off her £8,200 bike by moped-driving muggers.
The Pilates teacher was meeting up with other cyclists for a ride around Regent’s Park one morning in January when she became the latest victim of a crime scourge that has struck fear into the heart of London’s cycling community.
