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He's not clever, but he does have RIGHTS!!!!...if he was that clever he might have known that.
That's my understanding, too.Cyclists can’t be booked for speeding, but might be fined for ‘cycling furiously’ or ‘riding furiously’ which is an offence under the 1847 Town Police Clauses Act.
The same law has never been enacted for cyclists, perhaps because they weren't seen to be a problem(?), but maybe now would be a good time to do so?
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Magistrates do not get payed.............if he was that clever he might have known that.
And , indeed , he might have been able to spell PAID .
Perhaps a solution would be to pass a bye law permitting any pedestrians troubled by speeding or aggressive cyclists to deal with them by means of a brolly or walking stick through the spokes![]()
Last week I just missed mowing down a pedestrian who stepped off the pavement directly in front of me without looking - whilst riding mybike in town. I was probably doing about 12-15 mph at the time - fast enough to cause both me and the pedestrian some damage.
I was going downhill in Guildford town centre and rode straight into the side of a car reversing out of a nose in parking space. I flew over the top of the car and landed a good ten feet the other side. Luckily unharmed apart from grazes everywhere.
We were both to blame. Her for being totally unaware that other people might be on the road and me for riding downhill without a hope in hell's chance of stopping in the types of distances needed in town centres.
Not wishing to divert this thread along a cycle path - but if we invested in Dutch like infrastructure and attitude, these issues might surface less frequently. Plus of course introduce other benefits including speeding up journeys in built up areas (bike is already the quickest form of transport in most big cities), make some of us fitter (just sayin...) and create tens of thousands of jobs across the country... Probably best to leave the last point there.
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