I was out doing some distance cycling at the weekend, getting myself improved after a keg break back in April.
I decided to visit a WW2 USAAF museum in the locality. Went through the gate, disinfected my wheels as requested by the notice about avian flu prevention and cycled along the old concrete road to the museum.
When I got there, I was told by the farmer, in no uncertain and very cultured tones that the road wasn't a bridleway, but a footpath and I shouldn't have been riding my bike along it.
I didn't argue the point, but this is a road I've cycled on to the museum building many time before without challenge and was rather puzzled about a designated footpath which allows both farm traffic AND private cars on it when anyone is visiting the museum; but I'm not allowed to cycle along it - !
I decided to visit a WW2 USAAF museum in the locality. Went through the gate, disinfected my wheels as requested by the notice about avian flu prevention and cycled along the old concrete road to the museum.
When I got there, I was told by the farmer, in no uncertain and very cultured tones that the road wasn't a bridleway, but a footpath and I shouldn't have been riding my bike along it.
I didn't argue the point, but this is a road I've cycled on to the museum building many time before without challenge and was rather puzzled about a designated footpath which allows both farm traffic AND private cars on it when anyone is visiting the museum; but I'm not allowed to cycle along it - !