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This bit though:
The Highway Code clearly sets out rules for cyclists including on
equipment, clothing and use of lanes and crossingsWhat rules on clothing are there other than the overarching law on not being naked in public?
Scrabble-
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-cyclists-59-to-82
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Rule 59Clothing. You should wear
a cycle helmet which conforms to current regulations, is the correct size and securely fastened appropriate clothes for cycling. Avoid clothes which may get tangled in the chain, or in a wheel or may obscure your lights light-coloured or fluorescent clothing which helps other road users to see you in daylight and poor light reflective clothing and/or accessories (belt, arm or ankle bands) in the dark."
Of course, "should" means it is not a legal requirement, only advisory.
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Highway code rule 59:
Clothing. You should wear
- a cycle helmet which conforms to current regulations, is the correct size and securely fastened
- appropriate clothes for cycling. Avoid clothes which may get tangled in the chain, or in a wheel or may obscure your lights
- light-coloured or fluorescent clothing which helps other road users to see you in daylight and poor light
- reflective clothing and/or accessories (belt, arm or ankle bands) in the dark.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-cyclists-59-to-82
- a cycle helmet which conforms to current regulations, is the correct size and securely fastened
Greenbank
Emyr
Are letters about road safety sent out to LAs regularly or is this a special case?
Hard to disagree with the content, but it smacks of yet more persecution.
I guess the LAs are unlikely to do much anyway - just put it on the growing pile of unaffordable directives to ignore.