How to deal with the police!

[mowgli]

i had to reverse an artic into a college in cambridge one morning, i was across the road & 3 seperate cyclists hit my wagon. now cambridge is meant to have the cleverest students.... one actually told me that i shouldn't be where i was because he had to get to lectures..i simply told him to feck off

[Jack]

if the lights red...hop onto the pavement (if its empty) i do it all the time because im not sitting in traffic when i literally go round the corner about 5m to my front door

Cycling on the pavement is illegal though, just as much as shooting the red light is.

...ok, so the definition of pavement varies and there are some exceptions, but suffice to say if the pavement is next to a road with some traffic lights, its a no go

[TeddyThom]

Life today is a race between humans striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof items, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning....

[Bubba]

Cycling on the pavement is illegal though, just as much as shooting the red light is.

...ok, so the definition of pavement varies and there are some exceptions, but suffice to say if the pavement is next to a road with some traffic lights, its a no go

so you would quite happily sit in traffic when you could see your front door?

[TeddyThom]

Cycling on the pavement is illegal though, just as much as shooting the red light is.

...ok, so the definition of pavement varies and there are some exceptions, but suffice to say if the pavement is next to a road with some traffic lights, its a no go

It isn't as long as you haven't passed your cycling profriency(sp?) test...

[Andy]

It isn't as long as you haven't passed your cycling profriency(sp?) test...

Wrong,ive been fined for riding on the pavement before,£30 fine it was,and i passed my cycling proficiency in 1995

[TeddyThom]

Wrong,ive been fined for riding on the pavement before,£30 fine it was,and i passed my cycling proficiency in 1995

Damn. I've never been fined or whatever for riding on the pavement, and I'm a complete nutcase on my bike

[mowgli]

i agree with you there andy..... but the idiot that did my eldest daughters test told her not to ride on the road until she gets her confidence up!!!!! and how, pray tell should she do that without riding on the road..... cycling on the path is only ok if you still have stabilisers

[Andy]

Also been fined for no lights on the path aswell,and another friend got fined for being steaming on his bike

[TeddyThom]

Yeah lights I can understand, and wtf is being steaming on a bike??