Cycling in the time of Corona

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local landowner with history of trying to restrict public access to estate over a huge area now trying to do so because of Covid "to protect farm workers"...

It's deeply annoying as it's one of the few areas on outskirts of Edinburgh to get near-traffic free circuits, and in my puff I've only ever passed one guy in a tractor, once, as he went field to field. It's basically just standard two-lane country roads flanked by fields.

So, massively disproportionate and also totally unenforcable legally due to access rights.

Try and explain that to blowhards on twitter who think that it's cyclists being cunts again though...

Is there a rule that states in Corona UK, ID must be carried?

If not I guess the easy way to avoid such problems would be to not carry ID.

Where was this?

I didn't know there was any law yet on distance/time away from home.

I guess at present the cops will be able to interpret guidelines however they want.

Can't wait until they start contracting private security because there aren't enough cops....

Maybe a better use of police time would be helping get food to the 800k kids who are missing out on their free school meals.

Enjoying being part of a police state probably takes precedence.

Maybe, if people just behaved more considerably the police wouldn't have to police them, and they could focus on delivering free meals to 800k kids?

That wouldn't happen.

Government are only going to put police out for public order and safeguarding property. They dgaf about hungry children or they would have directed resource at it already.

I'm not out cycling myself and agree it is sensible to limit your riding and follow guidelines if you do head out.

I'm pretty convinced the very small number of people who are out on longer rides are causing very little onwards transmission, and policing it is a waste of time though.

All essential workers have had this discussion with their employers. Letters printed. You have to carry company ID.

You don’t need ID to pop to the shop.

Sunbathing and dog walking off lead have also been banned in the Royal Parks.

Thems the rules. Suck it up.

Thems the rules. Suck it up.

What do you mean? Did you read my post?

Where was this?

Greenwich

I didn't know there was any law yet on distance/time away from home.

No law stipulating it but line one of the gov guidelines says this: "stay local and use open spaces near to your home "

The emergency legislation on enforcement only came into being on Friday.

I guess at present the cops will be able to interpret guidelines however they want.

Thankfully the guidelines are clear. Exercise close to your home. Examples given this morning by the government indicate that an hour of exercise is the upper limit that police are being asked to monitor.

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https://twitter.com/WilliamNB/status/1244234286666002433

Define close.

A short distance or time away from something.

I think Gove clarified that the exercise session should be a maximum of half an hour to an hour this morning.

If you take an average London cyclist as averaging 12mph I would have thought it was sensible to say an absolute maximum of about 5 to 6 miles from your home. Any more than that and I doubt most people would be able to restrict it to an hour.

He said "It depends on each individual's fitness." and followed it up by "I would have thought that for most, a walk of up to an hour, or a run of 30 minutes, or a cycle ride between that, depending on their level of fitness, is appropriate...".

Sounds sensible to me. Not everybody can ride a bike for an hour.

Michael Gove speaking his brains on personal fitness is where we are. Stop the world, I want to get off.

Fuck Gove.

On this Gov.UK can and can't do Covid page there are no specific definitions of permitted time or distances.

I live in Leyton, as far as I'm concerned the majority of London is 'local' to me.

I think it's linked to the additional support needs potentially occurring purely as a result of car travel - brake downs, crashes etc

can we ban cuntlords hitting golf balls off fences and playing shite music extremely loudly making being at home in your own garden absolutely unbearable too please? k thx bye

Fair dos. That's what the chap we saw earlier thought too I assume. He sounded like a right entitled cunt.

dog walking off lead have also been banned in the Royal Parks.

Loads of people had their dogs off the lead in Greenwich Park this morning, despite very clear signage on all entrances. I would normally go up to them and call them cunts, but as most of them are my neighbours, I thought it best not to.

In the meantime, look out for an overweight middle aged man letting his dog go bat-shit crazy on the heath.