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Just chatted to a guy on my commute who was dressed up in the kit of a local club. He was riding ss with only one brake and when I politely tried to tell him it was illegal ("hey, I'm not trying to tell you what to do but do you know that ss with only one brake is illegal?") he was insistent that "the highway code says you only need one braking system". I mentioned to him to look up the Charlie Alliston case he said he had and that you only needed one brake... It was all perfectly civil apart from his insistence and a slight "are you sayin' I'm wrong" tone to his voice and then he peeled off at a junction.
I used to ride with his club occasionally when I lived nearer, and I'm a member of their Fb page. Should I post a comment to their Fb page politely liking the relevant section of the highway code "to the guy on the silver singlespeed" or is that a busy-body step too far?