Recent content by passionate off roader

All due respect mate, but reading some of your posts on here I reckon you are full of **** and actually don't have the remotest clue about Economics.

Interesting and well done you. I turn 50 in August, but sadly I don't think I'll be able to retire just yet. However, as a major life plus, I did recently redeem my mortgage, so now 100% own the house I live in. Just the one car and the one e bike.

Thanks flecc, that clarifies the issue considerably.

Forgive my ignorance, but there's something about all this that I can't quite get me 'ed round. Forget the police for a moment. From where I was looking, the two lads appeared to be on a bike which is designed for one person. Not a motor bike with a pillion passenger, but a bike (e or...

Perfectly true. You are under no legal obligation to wear a helmet when riding a bike, be it an e bike, or conventional push bike. Yet the media coverage has made a big issue of them not wearing helmets, but weirdly omitted to mention there were two characters on a bike meant only for one.

For me the most blindingly obvious factor is that there were two of them on a non tandem bike, rendering it very difficult to control. The police were half a mile away when the accident occurred, after they had "escaped" down an alley or blocked off road. I'd say it was their fault. Blaming the...

I leave mine on, but the longest I've ever left the bike unsupervised is 5 minutes outside the Post Office. No problems so far.

I would never mess with the electrics on either my bike or any other, as I freely admit I just don't have the technical knowledge or expertise to do so. If anything needed doing I'd take it to a professional to do.

If it had been a cop, you could have been done and got a fine . So maybe you should be grateful to the guy for alerting you. Had I been you, the first thing I would have done when arriving home, would be to check the actual law. Although I couldn't find too much first time, hence the thread...

Thanks, that's interesting. I noted - today actually - that at the island part of the crossing I use to join a cycle path, there was a red bike symbol and red man shown, with the man shown dismounted from the bike. I took that as obviously meaning that I was doing the right thing by indeed...

To be honest I'm not that bothered eitherway, but I was curious as to the letter of the law. At the time it wasn't at all obvious what it was. I have used a crossing (with an island in the middle) to get across and join a cycle path on the other side. I've cycled along the road to the island in...

Thanks for the definitive and knowledgeable reply.

A few weeks ago I pulled up at a pedestrian crossing which was just going to red. The only person using it was a guy with a bike who cycled over to my side and then just cycled off down the road. He was ahead of the lights, but he wasn't a pedestrian going to the pavement on the other side. I...

Wonder what weird algorithm came up with that rubbish conclusion. Safer my arse.

Entirely 100% the car driver's fault. But I personally wouldn't cycle on such a road, helmet or otherwise.