This sign made me dismount and walk my bike!

[Joey Shabadoo]

So, tricycles with V8 engines, gatling guns and swords protruding from the hubs are fine, but a vicar venturing forth at 1mph on a rod braked upright will be pistol whipped and relieved of £500?

Quite right too

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Take primary on nearest sea front road and ride up and down at 9 mph. Anyone complains ask them to write to their council banning cycling on the suitable promenade by the sea.

 

[Milkfloat]

In all seriousness I bet no one has ever received a £500 fine for just riding a bike responsibly.
I doubt it’s even legal as it isn’t proportional to the nuisance caused.

You have made me wonder what the actual legal penalty would be - anyone with any idea?

 

[mickle]

Take primary on nearest sea front road and ride up and down at 9 mph. Anyone complains ask them to write to their council banning cycling on the suitable promenade by the sea.

As if! Down a hill with the wind behind me I might hit 8!

 

[Drago]

You have made me wonder what the actual legal penalty would be - anyone with any idea?

Im guessing its a by-law, which potentially creates a local criminal offence, but that is, as aforememtioned, a guess.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Just ignore 'you will be fined' signs. I do!

 

[gavroche]

If I get stopped, I just pretend not to understand or read English.

 

[cookiemonster]

So, tricycles with V8 engines, gatling guns and swords protruding from the hubs are fine, but a vicar venturing forth at 1mph on a rod braked upright will be pistol whipped and relieved of £500?

Not much of a punishment if they enjoy a good pistol whipping.

 

[Drago]

Not much of a punishment if they enjoy a good pistol whipping.

That recalls to mind this story a journalist told of Lemmy...

"I knocked [on Motörhead's] bus. No answer. So I open the f*****' door and there's Lemmy in a complete full-in Gestapo uniform spanking a naked chick with a riding crop. She was loving it. So was he. I apologized and closed the door."

So it's not difficult to imagine that some might thoroughly enjoy a good pistol whipping, particularly one administered by a parking enforcement agent in full regalia.

 

[cookiemonster]

They don't make them like Lemmy anymore.

 

[gavgav]

If you peddle fast enough, they’ll never catch you

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

If you peddle fast enough, they’ll never catch you

Delboy's motto