Pavement cyclists beware

A heads up.

Just had a leaflet through the door from the local plod.
They are going to be having a blitz on pavement cycling in the Cambridge Heath Rd & Bethnal Green Rd areas in the next few months. No doubt there are targets to meets, so expect a few fixed penalty notices and an unusual amount of jobsworthyness.

Not that any of you would dream of cycling on the pavement of course...

Cycling on the road is quicker.

i remember once hearing that there was a wheel size exemption. after all they wouldnt serve a fixed penalty on a child right? so what is the wheel size? brompton dahon moulton etc riders might be fine ......... just a thought.
if they catch you on the pavement and you have had a few too many beers and burgers is it over?

i remember once hearing that there was a wheel size exemption. after all they wouldnt serve a fixed penalty on a child right? so what is the wheel size? brompton dahon moulton etc riders might be fine ......... just a thought.
if they catch you on the pavement and you have had a few too many beers and burgers is it over?

In theory, there is a wheel size exemption. However the police are likely to be applying the spirit of the law, not the letter.

If they catch you on the pavement, it's over.
If you've had too many beers, it's over.
If you'ce had too many burgers, you'll probably get away with it whilst they laugh at you and call you a tubby git.

Cheers for tip off. But only wankers and chavs cycle on the pavement. Lock 'em up!

no surprise. i have to agree with them. riding on the pavement is wrong and gives people a chance to moan cyclists. a fine is yet another pointless way for them to milk money from us and you can bet every last penny they will be pulling over commuters in the morning as apposed to the full sus soft tail halfords MTB riding yoot who is riding arond intimidating people.
I have seen groups of these kids ride straight past coppers and they did nothing! why cause its more hassle than it's worth! hardly the attitude to take when up keeping the law eh!

only wankers and chavs cycle on the pavement

Ex
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Peace

i remember once hearing that there was a wheel size exemption. after all they wouldnt serve a fixed penalty on a child right? so what is the wheel size? brompton dahon moulton etc riders might be fine ......... just a thought.
if they catch you on the pavement and you have had a few too many beers and burgers is it over?

I looked into this after telling a police chap that he couldn't fine me for riding my BMX on the pavement as it was a childs bike, and therefor exempt from the rule. He was really pissed off but let me go on my way. On getting home I thought I would look into it and found out that there is no such law at all. I was pretty lucky the copper hadn't a clue. It is illegal for all bikes, including children, to ride on the pavement. The police do however turn a blind eye to young children riding on the pavement as it would be unsafe for them to be riding on the road.

Cheers for tip off. But only wankers and chavs cycle on the pavement. Lock 'em up!

I hate to admit it but i agree with this. Seems like there's always some tosser riding down Tottenham court road pavement the wrong way cos they're too lazy to go the long way around.

I noticed some one getting a fixed penalty in Shern Hall street in Walthamstow yesterday

So beware

I only um....occasionally "use" the pavement very briefly, to divert around things, riding on the pavement is dangerous and I don't condone or encourage it all, be safe kids, peace out.....

If you've had too many beers, it's over.

Only if you're sufficiently intoxicated that you can't properly control the bike (in which case riding isn't a great plan in any case).

A heads up.

Just had a leaflet through the door from the local plod.
They are going to be having a blitz on pavement cycling in the Cambridge Heath Rd & Bethnal Green Rd areas in the next few months. No doubt there are targets to meets, so expect a few fixed penalty notices and an unusual amount of jobsworthyness.

Not that any of you would dream of cycling on the pavement of course...

Any mention of RLJing? There are a couple of lights round there that fall squarely into the "safer to RLJ" category due to parked cars and other hazards one would be better off not pushed towards.

thank you cherryredquinn, i think its unfair though. people riding freewheeling single speeds should get this penalty as well as us fixsters.
its blatant fix-ism!

Any mention of RLJing? There are a couple of lights round there that fall squarely into the "safer to RLJ" category due to parked cars and other hazards one would be better off not pushed towards.

And on that subject, looks like Boris agrees with you. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23675641-details/Cyclists+should+be+allowed+to+run+red+lights%2C+says+Boris/article.do

Only if you're sufficiently intoxicated that you can't properly control the bike (in which case riding isn't a great plan in any case).

Clearly you haven't met "The Bendix"...a mutant hybrid made up of a combination of DNA from:

and

Some say with sufficient alcoholic fuel she can hit speeds of up to 88mph, and that she has been subsequently banned from several pubs for trying to obtain "sufficient alcoholic fuel".
All we know is......... she's called "The Bendix".

88mph?

Does she know this man?

Apparently they are related, it all happened when "The Bendix" went to the pub, then
*Back to the future, *then back to the pub again.....allegedly.

Is that because the pub couldn't sell alcohol fast enough the first time round?

And on that subject, looks like Boris agrees with you. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23675641-details/Cyclists+should+be+allowed+to+run+red+lights%2C+says+Boris/article.do

Crikey! An actual sensible proposal. How novel. Shame it's only left turns rather than for instance straight on where a side road enters from the right, but it'd be a good start. Might get the message to the police that there are better uses of their time too.

They tried but the amount of alcoholic fuel required for "The Bendix" to hit 88mph is substantial, very few pubs can sustain refuelling "The Bendix" for long.

Crikey! An actual sensible proposal. How novel. Shame it's only left turns rather than for instance straight on where a side road enters from the right, but it'd be a good start. Might get the message to the police that there are better uses of their time too.

This is basically taken straight from North American road planning where a number of states and provinces allow all vehicles to turn right on red. If there is sufficient space on the turn to the left then, in theory, a cyclist should never come into conflict with vehicle coming from the right and should be sufficiently visible to a vehicle turning right from the opposite direction. If the lights manage traffic coming from a side road from the right as a T junction then straight on would be flawed because a cyclist would be less visible until they had passed the forward most car at the lights. At which point the car coming from the right may have already set a course to swing wide (long HGV for instance), leaving no room for a cyclist to continue onwards. You could expect a cyclist to be sensible and cautious about such a junction but, as always, you have to legislate for the least capable.

If the lights manage traffic coming from a side road from the right as a T junction then straight on would be flawed because a cyclist would be less visible until they had passed the forward most car at the lights. At which point the car coming from the right may have already set a course to swing wide (long HGV for instance), leaving no room for a cyclist to continue onwards. You could expect a cyclist to be sensible and cautious about such a junction but, as always, you have to legislate for the least capable.

Not really - you just allow cyclists to treat it as an uncontrolled junction but with priority to the traffic with the lights. Think of the junctions on Tottenham Court road that everyone RLJs in perfect safety for an example of what I'm thinking about. Obviously, the cyclist can't just blithely ride in front of the turning traffic and expect it to vanish mysteriously, but there's no reason to delay cyclist just because motor vehicles need a bigger gap to merge (which is why the lights are there in the first place).

I take issue a bit with "you have to legislate for the least capable" BTW. "Least capable" is in this instance a near-synonym for "most utterly fuckwitted" and I'd submit that a lot of society's problems are explained precisely by legislating for that group to everyone else's detriment. But then I'm an old-fashioned Liberal - the last one in captivity, I sometimes fear :-(

What the fuck are you doing riding on the footpath anyway? I'd fine ya and maybe give you a couple of cracks with a nightstick for a laugh. Happy Days :)

meh....I wonder how long it will be before this law gets adopted by other councils?
bad law bad law!