Are cyclists exempt from speed limits?

[Arch]

Ive seen police with speed guns pull cyclists over coming down the hill in greenwich park, which is a bit harsh as it is pretty hard to stick to 20 mph without being on the brakes the whole way

So, stay on your brakes.

How would you react to a driver who said they couldn't keep to a speed limit because it meant using their brakes?

 

[byegad]

I personally demand lower speed limits so us unfit cyclists can break them. A NSL of 12.5mph should do it

Can I bid for 10mph on the flat?

I can reach 50mph down hill but...

 

[TheLondonCyclist]

The speed limit signs include cycles.

And
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1308/pdfs/uksi_20041308_en.pdf
Link courtesy of @Tim Hall from another thread.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1194/made

 

[TheLondonCyclist]

crap camera that never kept date or time . now resides in a drawer at work for inspecting inside panels

Your laugh is hilarious lol

 

[JayMac]

Id actually love to get a £60 fine for cycling furiously. Just so i could get the letter framed!


Mr JayMac. We have found you guilty of cycling furiously!

Brilliant!

 

[asterix]

Got this answer with regards a proposed speed reduction:
"Cyclists are not exempt from speed restrictions and can be stopped for speeding in the same way that any other driver/vehicle can be stopped."
How true is the answer they supplied?

It is wrong.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25703725

Spies are to be allowed to speed under changes to the UK motoring laws.
MI5 and MI6 officers currently have to abide by the rules of the road even if national security is threatened.
But they will be given the same exemptions as police vehicles, ambulances and fire engines by transport minister Robert Goodwill.

Just tell 'em you are working under cover and it will not be in their best interests to impede your progress. If they ask for id just laugh and ask if they really think spies carry id.

 

[steve52]

I did 22 down there, fine me & put me in prison.

42 mph cough

 

[Fasta Asloth]

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1194/made

They don't specifically state bicycles are exempt (from speed limits) in the 2010 amendment, or have I missed that part? They clarify that vehicle means mechanically propelled, so unless you are propelling your bike "flintstone" style then pedals, cranks, chainrings, chain, cassette etc are, arguably, mechanical, and used to help propel the bicycle...?

 

[Fasta Asloth]

That is, thus far, not an understanding of what constitutes mechanically propelled

Then they need to clarify what it means...

 

[Fasta Asloth]

That's great it doesn't bother you and you are free to uphold or ignore as you wish, but the police and magistrates obviously think bicycles come under the definition of mechanically propelled...
http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/10682089._/
Personally, I would like more clarification...

 

[swee'pea99]

" It further provides that the requirement imposed on a person to remove any faeces deposited by an animal of which he is in charge does not apply if the animal is a horse."
I think that's discriminatory against us wildebeest-owners.

 

[Fasta Asloth]

That is not the same thing. That is Richmond Park, where the bylaws include cycles....

But that is the place that I am referring to and was in fact replying to a post on the royal park amendments....

 

[Fasta Asloth]

I understand that, it is just that it is nothing to do with the unasked question of whether or not a bicycle is mechanically propelled.

Eh? It has everything to do with it, if the poster (i was replying to) is using the 2010 amendment, and specifically the revision to include the term mechanically propelled vehicle, as evidence that the parks speed limit therefore doesn't apply to bicycles. And it isn't "unasked" I have asked it....

 

[Andrew_Culture]

But if bikes are not mechanically propelled (they're not, surely - they're human propelled?) then doesn't that mean any cyclists fined for speeding in Richmond Park should get their fines refunded?

It's PPI all over again!

 

[Fasta Asloth]

But if bikes are not mechanically propelled (they're not, surely - they're human propelled?) then doesn't that mean any cyclists fined for speeding in Richmond Park should get their fines refunded?

I guess that is the crux of the debate, are they or aren't they, and as you say if indeed they are then both the police and (magistrate) courts are in need of some updating on the subject....