Police spotting (junction watch)

Watch out kids!

I would not usually cycle on the pavement, but I was on the phone with my dad, I was going extremely slowly,

Vello, dear chap. My point was this. In your story you said, rightly that you would not usually cycle on the pavement. You then sought to excuse it by saying that you were on the phone. This rather horrified me. However, slowly you were going you should not (1) ride on a pavement over the age of 12 and (2) ride while on the phone. To speak on the phone, stop. Cycling on the pavement is unacceptable. It may or may not be dangerous. It is, however, something that is always thrown up by the anticycling Daily Mail types. There is no need to do it. It is wrong. Don't do it. Cycling while on the phone, on the road or pavement is just bloody stupid, cretinous and arrogant as is speaking on the phone while driving. No one can cycle properly while speaking on the phone.

My comment about cycle training was gratuitous but salient.