How to deal with the police!

[Andy]

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

Oh yeah,if its kids then theyre w4ankers for doing them for being on the path,roads are getting dangerouser all the time...
But to be fair i was 15 and really should have known better.

[Andy]

wtf is being steaming on a bike??

Totally blotto drunk,he went over the handlebars into a ditch full of nettles in front of the police t5
We went on an all day pub crawl on bikes years ago and all ended up with cuts and bruises and him with a fine

[mowgli]

i recently kicked a yoof off his bmx as he & his mates were all crowded round the sliding doors into our local ASDA and they were shuffling their bikes closer & closer when people were trying to get in the store to basically annoy as much of hinckley as possible.... OH didn't he look all big & clever fetching his face off the path. i'd previously done a bmxer outside the local somerfield when he thought it was smart to ride between my parked car & the next & then bunny hop onto the path right in front of me, but his face hit the shop wall.... i don't enjoy shopping, so people should avoid me when i am doing it

[Jack]

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

Not saying I would, just pointing out that to avoid breaking one law, you'd be breaking a different one. A bike is considered a vehicle (well, "carriage") in terms of the law - so you can also be reamed for being drunk on one too!

The moral dilemma is, at what age does it become wrong to ride a bike on the pavement? As in, its technically illegal at any age, but would you rather a 5 year old kid rode their bike in a busy road rather than on a quiet pavement?!

[of course the obvious answer would be to walk on the pavement and push the bike, but hey its hypothetical ]

[mowgli]

i can't imagine a rozzer would do a 5year old for riding their bike on the path, its all down to supervision & training etc.... but if they were on their own, then its the same law for all.. my other grievance is lights.. it is actually illegal to ride a bike without a bell or reflectors, or lights at night.... the number of times i've had near misses on that one. on one occasion i came up a country road at 60mph at night to round a bend & nearly hit 4 bmxers in dark clothing riding along 2 abreast...

[GRUNT 16V]

wtf