To be fair the lawyer was saying the wording of the legislation those very vague/board rules referred to was open to interpretation. But hey, only saying.
And I'd still like to know who's going to pay for all of those calibrated bicycle speedos ..
Chances are I'll never ride (the road) though a royal park so I'm fairly safe either way
There's also Careless Cycling, Reckless Cycling, Cycling Under the Influence, even cycling on the pavement where pedestrians have right of way is a specific offence.
I think enforcement of all of them is about as rare as hen's teeth though
But it should be.
Show me better rule book that the police will allow me to follow and Ill happy follow that instead
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Er, that's basically what I was telling you. "I'd blacken his eye yada yada" ... aye, what if he's 6'5" and built like The rock? ... or ... me?
It's funny how comments like mine bring out the need in other men to mention how hard they are.
Yeah yeah... bugs you does it.. being such a big hard guy and all that.
I couldn't give a monkeys how hard they are.. damage my car, they get hit. If it turns out bad for me, that's to bad for me then isn't it. I don't see why you'd care, unless you're the type of person I'm talking about here.
Someone has to stand up to bullies. Just like the ones at school... I smacked them in the face too. Sometimes I'd get a good kicking for my troubles, but they never bullied me again, and on a few occasions, they actually stopped bullying others too: Worth it IMO. Sometimes you just have to take a beating to get any worthwhile results. It's not about being a hard man (as I'm not any such thing.. whatever that actually means any way), it's about letting bullies know that being able to throw their fists around doesn't give them impunity to do what they want. The videos I've seen of militant cyclists smacking people's mirrors out of shape, thumping car roofs (the easiest part of a car to dent) and other knobbish behaviour, just because they were a bit closer than they liked etc, just makes these people bullies. If you have a head cam, and you feel a diver has done something illegal or wrong, just pass the footage to the police instead of going on a vigilante style crusade on the internet. The former is just the sensible thing to do, the latter just makes you a prick,
In my experience though Keith... proper hard men don't behave like that any way. I know a couple of people I'd describe as proper hard men, and they're absolute gents, and the absolute opposite of a bully.
I was just making an observation. There's bullies and there's mouths. I'm neither, and don't like either. Simple. I'm no wannabe hard man, I just have a wicked temper that puts the s***s up people because it's the type that don't give a monkey's if I get hurt or not. To get me there though you'd have to really push it. Swerving across me when I'm on the bike, putting me and possibly others at risk, will do it, aye.
I have a Peugeot hard tail mountain bike tucked away in the shed. It was only used on the road and maintained as you say, but you wouldn't expect to have to check on the handle bar stem though. For whatever reason my stem fractured inside the frame, coming apart and out of the frame, just as I was pulling out across a cross roads. Fortunately it happened whilst still in the side turning but it left me standing with the bike laying on the floor between my legs and the handle bars in my hands. The faces on the drivers was a picture though.
It probably is old, my mates son worked in a bike shop at the time and tried to get a replacement stem, but no-one made one the same size diameter anymore.
I was trying to be tactful would you rather me say you are talking b*****ks?
Cheers for the link - never seen that one.
Bedtime reading ... how very sad
