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Since it's illegal to ride a bicycle on the pavement, then getting off and pushing it would be legal, no?
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Since it's illegal to ride a bicycle on the pavement, then getting off and pushing it would be legal, no?
"Propelling a bike" on the pavement is not, per se, illegal.
Riding a bike is a form of propelling it. So is pushing it.
But pushing a bike along the pavement is not illegal. The offence is riding it on the pavement.
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Greenbank
Maybe. The short answer is that no-one knows whether pushing a bicycle counts as 'propelling a vehicle' because the issue's never been decided by the courts. I'd say it's perfectly arguable that walking while pushing a bicycle is not 'propelling a vehicle' since a bicycle is propelled by turning the pedals while straddling the bike, not walking alongside it. Indeed, I'd say that Crank v. Brooks is relevant in this context, as a pedestrian is not a person propelling a vehicle, but a person walking on foot, and the fact that they're wheeling a bicycle doesn't stop them from being a pedestrian, which was the dicta in Crank v. Brooks. But until (if ever) it goes to court and there's a binding precedent on the point, there's no actual answer just opinions. And opinions, as the old saying goes, are like arseholes.