Texting on a horse!

[Lisa21]

To be fair to the rider..if she competant and knows her horse and the area well then a quick text is not going to cause any problem imo whereas a schoolkid on a riding school hack is just being plain irresponsible. So really it all depends on the situation at the time.

 

[Lisa21]

You're getting very personal about my choice of vehicle. I think my vanity regarding my car Sports Utility Vehicle, is far outweighed by the enormous chip on your shoulder. Get over it homeboy

Dear god, are you STILL going on about that flippin monstrosity of yours!!!

 

[brokenflipflop]

Listen love, I didn't bring the subject of my SUV up, it was my homeboy Adrian.

 

[Lisa21]

 

[brokenflipflop]

 

[snailracer]

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.

I could be your Dad......If you want

A horse is predictably unpredictable. Therefore, they are predictable.

 

[chewy]

I think your all being a bit harsh...after all she might have been updating her Facebook, which is alot more important than merely texting!


"...am on a horse in road lol...."

 

[lukesdad]

I think some of you need to go for some riding lessons. Seat leg then reins. If the horse wasn t moving the reins have no bearing. You dont hold on with the reins

 

[VamP]

I think some of you need to go for some riding lessons. Seat leg then reins. If the horse wasn t moving the reins have no bearing. You dont hold on with the reins

''Two girls on horses were almost stationary and two-abreast ahead of me. ''

Clearly moving. Should definitely keep a touch. Can you keep a touch and text? Yes. Should you allow the texting to distract you from the road situation? Probably not.

 

[lukesdad]

I would not advocate texting on the road, however when I ride with the missus we have a phone strapped to the arm. This is because we have to be contactable while the kids are at school. The biggest problem would be the phone going off (if not on silent) which could well spook a horse not used to it. If you mean by "touch " contact with the bit " that would depend on the horse and rider. As soon as you pick up contact the horse becomes alert and is ready for something usually work. Drop the contact and it relaxes same applies with leg on leg off. A well schooled horse and you can drop the contact on the bit completly and steer with your leg. With a horse thats good in traffic this is not a problem.

 

[VamP]

I think we're having an agreement

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Can't we just hate on this little ho-bag for being younger and hipper than us and the fact that people are actually texting her?

 

[MrHappyCyclist]

Some people are just addicted to texting (messaging/tweeting/liking/emailing/whatever).
My niece has better comms links than GCHQ - I've watched her juggling 2 mobiles (one for calls, one for texts), a cordless landline phone, twitter, facebook, MS Messenger and email, all at the same time.

Don't worry, it's all just a temporary blip until the neural interfaces are sorted out. Just one more step on our journey towards becoming "The Borg".

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Wouldn't that be descending into petty jealousy?

Yes... I thought we had ages ago....

 

[snailracer]

Why do you only have to play it if your on a road then ... you don't have to pay if its on private land, you do a thousand miles a week as long as its not on road , so you can use all the fancy dandy talk you want but if you want to use a vehicle on the road you have to pay tax.
The fact that out of 3 billion raised in vehicle tax only a fraction gets spent on roads and the majority goes into Government coffers is by the by

Yet I appear to be able to cycle for miles on public roads and no-one has ever billed me - so AFAICT, road tax does not exist.