You've got more cheek than a bag of arses. I'm not frothing either. Just because my opinion conflicts with you and some others doesn't mean I don't "get it". Furthermore (Jesus I'm sounding as anal as you lot) I've ridden horses on a number of occasions and it's not that difficult but thanks for the science with selection, input, corrective blah blah blah.....I wonder how many people debating this have actually sat on a horse.
Leaving aside the frothings of BFF who clearly doesn't get most things, can anyone accept that riding a horse is totally different to any other form of transport that we are generally exposed to? The horse is fully capable of transporting himself, the rider's job is to select the destination, and to provide corrective inputs in case of problems. The level of interaction between rider and horse is many, many orders of magnitude greater than that between a driver and a car, or indeed a rider and a bike. To that extent, texting while hacking at walking speed, especially in pairs, is actually pretty safe, as the horse is following the side of the road, and his hacking partner, and the rider has a plethora of sensory inputs to tell him of what is happening. Some horses are easily spooked, others are solid as a rock. It's the rider's job to know their horse, and to act appropriately.
Mobile phone use while riding a horse is not against the law. It may not, however, always be sensible
Riding side by side is advised in certain situations, to prevent dodgy overtakes, much as with cycling. Whether it was appropriate to this instance, I cannot tell.
NO. HE CAN'T POSSIBLY. CYCLIST ON BIKE - ONLY THE CYCLIST IS UNPREDICTABLE - THE BIKE IS AN INANIMATE OBJECT. THE HORSE AND RIDER ARE UNPREDICTABLE (DOUBLE TROUBLE) AND IN ADDITION THE HORSE IS A VERY LARGE AND HEAVY BEAST AND WOULD CAUSE MORE DAMAGE TO EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING THAN A PUSHBIKE.
Thanks for the history lesson. I'll revise my opinion - if someone is using their horse to drop the kids off at school, do the shopping, going to work or performing emergency transportation then I agree, they should be able to use tarmac roads. If it's just Tarquin and Tabitha airing their new jodhpurs (yes I looked up the spelling homeboy) then I think they should trott around a field.1684163 said:
Yes, quite sure.
You Guardian readers might have the upper hand with your grammar and spelling but if we pitted our wits against each other at..at...erm.... crap !Off you go then and look up the spelling of trot
erm... I'll get back to you on that one
