Pavement cyclists beware

No problem with children riding on the pavement, but you grown ups should stay off them please

What if the grow up has a mental age of a child?

stay off the bike...

What if it's a child with a growth hormone problem who is the size and weight of an adult?

OK, you win, I'm not playing any more

OK, you win, I'm not playing any more

I win at internet argument means I fail. :(

This is far too intellectual for me, I'm going out to play

the 'fixed penalties' brought in a few years ago do NOT apply to country footpaths where there is no road. Fixed penalty notices also cannot be applied to areas such as parks, shopping precincts etc. unless a byelaw has been passed making cycling such areas an offence, nor do they apply to anyone under 16. Many people (including police officers) seem to think that 'a footpath is a footpath' wherever it is and that the same laws apply. This is not the case.
footpaths or causeways by the side of a road, and that this is still the case has been ruled in the high court. The legislation makes no exceptions for small wheeled or children's cycles, so even a child riding on a footway is breaking the law. However, if they are under the age of criminal responsibility they cannot, of course, face prosecution.
http://www.bikeforall.net/content/cycling_and_the_law.php

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!

spot fucking on

I never usually cycle on the pavements, but tonight I was tempted as it was midnight and cut across a completely empty pavement for about 15 metres and got caught. Didn't get a ticket but he recorded all my details including looking at ID. For future reference if i am ever stopped again, do I have to share this info by law?

not unless you've actually been arrested I believe

pretty sure you do, regardless wether you've been arrested or not.

If you don't they will probably arrest you and then you wil have to

Cambridge is by far the most cycle-friendly city I've ever lived in and all the pavements are tiny! People cycling on the pavements here drives me mad!

Thankfully I don't ride near there, but I'd sooner risk the ticket than the roads at times

Thankfully I don't ride near there, but I'd sooner risk the ticket than the roads at times

learn to ride properly

learn to ride properly

Now you can't just say that. Some roads are so dangerous that cycling on them would be stupid. I have ridden for a few years without incident. I would consider myself a good cyclist because of this. However, the thought "I could be killed by a crazy driver today" does linger in the back of my mind most days as I head out. And good cyclists are occasionally killed by cars. I'd say walking your bike along the pavement from time to time when you encounter a very dangerous road/roundabout is a good idea when it comes to safety.

+1
but ill walki my bike over hammersmith roundabout

+1
but ill walki my bike over hammersmith roundabout

Hammersmith roundabout scares the shit out of me, especially coming in from Kensington way. The lack of road markings just make it a free-for-all and very dangerous.

I'll stay off the pavement when pedestrians decide that crossing the road looking into the screen of their phone or iPod is a bad idea.

Stupid cunts.

I'll stay off the pavement when pedestrians decide that crossing the road looking into the screen of their phone or iPod is a bad idea.

Or when they go to cross the road in a hurry, and look only one way before diving in front of you in this kind of sideways run. Its like some people believe roads only come in one direction.

some of them do