Police tickets

Please Tynan, I've just been having this debate with a wheel chair user. From his perspective a cyclist even going at 4 miles an hour is a scary obstacle of doom. I've got some sympathy for him.

I once got hauled over by a policeman who asked me why I wasn't using a shared pavement area cycle path in a "these facilities are for your safety" sort of way. I pointed out that I had just been doing aroud 20mph and the shared pavement area had pedestrians including little children and asked him how he thought that combining the two was appropriate? He gracefully conceded the point and told me I must make sure that I ride safely in the road. I gracefully conceded that point.