New Highway Code rules.

[mariesnowgoose]

There will be a campaign on the TV, Radio, and newspapers Rob.

Bl**dy hell! Knock me over with a feather!!!

You mean those in charge of Public Information are finally starting to use what little grey cells they have?

I'll believe it when I see it

Oops! I said I wouldn't comment further .... shout 'scarf!' someone, quick!

 

[Fisherman]

Bl**dy hell! Knock me over with a feather!!!

You mean those in charge of Public Information are finally starting to use what little grey cells they have?

I'll believe it when I see it

Oops! I said I wouldn't comment further .... shout 'scarf!' someone, quick!

Canny keep a good girl doon Marie, or quiet

Major campaign to raise awareness of Highway Code changes

There are concerns that millions of drivers do not know the code is being revamped.

www.standard.co.uk

 

[trevskoda]

It will be changed again when ins co start to lobby the gov about the sharp rise in rise in rear end shunts at left hand turns.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

 

[MykCamper]

Hopefully soon cyclists will have to have a licence, pass a test, have an MOT for the bike(if over 3years old), be taxed and fully insured.

Oh Yes!
But watch out for the flying pigs on bikes!

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I'm betting we will get corner testers looking to make a claim, much cheaper than jumping on your brakes.

 

[trevskoda]

Cycles in the middle of the rd, pedestrians leaping off footpaths at corners and whizzing onto roundabouts, anyone want to start an undertakers biz with me, shovel and brush required.

 

[mark61]

Haven't really noticed any difference around town, well, apart from I appear to be going through an awful lot of screen wash and the Nearside front of van is now various shades of red.
Strange really, haven't had a van graffitied in a few years now, funny the kids should start that up again when a new Highway Code is launched. Coincidence I guess.

 

[Robmac]

The only thing I noticed was when walking to the pub on Saturday me and my mate stopped to cross the road and a car stopped to let us across.

He was the only car so it would have been easier just to go past us (it was a straight road not on a bend or turning. I think he was being a little over cautious!

 

[barryd]

Here is the new official information film for cyclists for the new rules.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=635321364245923

 

[trevskoda]

Oh Yes!
But watch out for the flying pigs on bikes!

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Here is the new official information film for cyclists for the new rules.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=635321364245923

Wish I could share it, sadly I know a couple of phsyclits

 

[Scotia]

 

[Pudsey Bear]

What I really don't understand is why someone who hasn't a hope in hell of doing the tour de anybloodything, think Lycra is going to make much if any difference on their ride to work, why they would spend thousands on a bike that frankly is not fit for purpose on wheels that are less so, and look a proper git in the process.

Clarkson is famous for saying work harder so you can afford a car.

It's not that I don't respect cyclists, but it's a cheap mode of transport to get you to work essentially (and possibly give you cancer from all the fumes) the ones who ride to and from work on sensible bikes fit for the road with lights and obey the laws of the road are indeed saving the planet, those who go onto country roads enmasse in clubs??? I have no time for at all, just another gang of thugs as far as I'm concerned, we often go out into the countryside and frequently go into a café for a coffee and they are bragging about how many cars they have pissed off on the way there, and this can be any age group up into their 70s.

Jeremy Clarkson blasts new driving rule coming into force at midnight

JEREMY Clarkson has blasted the “mad” driving rule change coming into force today. The new rule is to stop drivers fiddling with their phones behind the wheel, meaning even tapping the …

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[barryd]

Dont be daft Kev. A lot of people enjoy cycling. Its a sport, hobby, past time call it what you like and its bloody good exercise. I kind of have a love hate relationship with it. I do cycle in the hope that it will somehow make me fit or lose a bit of weight but I find it painful on just about every part of my body but it is quite nice around here on the quiet country lanes although not much of it is flat. In the first lockdown it was incredible. I hate to say it but we both loved that first lockdown. Its quiet here at the best of times but out cycling in the sunshine there was nothing but the sound of birds. No planes, no cars, no people.

We take two folding mountain bikes with us in the van which were cheapies from Argos. They are crap really but ok for up to maybe 8-10 miles. Great for cycling round bits of Arran or Flamborough head although I tend to take my proper bike there. I just wish it didnt hurt so much but I keep telling myself its doing me good.

You cant go around labeling cyclists as thugs etc really. Not all of them anyway.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I can't imagine you in Lycra though, and I'm grateful for that.

 

[alcam]

The only thing I noticed was when walking to the pub on Saturday me and my mate stopped to cross the road and a car stopped to let us across.

He was the only car so it would have been easier just to go past us (it was a straight road not on a bend or turning. I think he was being a little over cautious!

Fair amount of G-force ?

 

[Fisherman]

What I really don't understand is why someone who hasn't a hope in hell of doing the tour de anybloodything, think Lycra is going to make much if any difference on their ride to work, why they would spend thousands on a bike that frankly is not fit for purpose on wheels that are less so, and look a proper git in the process.

Clarkson is famous for saying work harder so you can afford a car.

It's not that I don't respect cyclists, but it's a cheap mode of transport to get you to work essentially (and possibly give you cancer from all the fumes) the ones who ride to and from work on sensible bikes fit for the road with lights and obey the laws of the road are indeed saving the planet, those who go onto country roads enmasse in clubs??? I have no time for at all, just another gang of thugs as far as I'm concerned, we often go out into the countryside and frequently go into a café for a coffee and they are bragging about how many cars they have pissed off on the way there, and this can be any age group up into their 70s.

Jeremy Clarkson blasts new driving rule coming into force at midnight

JEREMY Clarkson has blasted the “mad” driving rule change coming into force today. The new rule is to stop drivers fiddling with their phones behind the wheel, meaning even tapping the …

www.thesun.co.uk

Quoting Clarkson just about summed up that poor post.
My mate is a keen club cyclist, and a member of the Loch Lomond mountain rescue team.
He gets called out for no pay at all hours and risks his life to try to save others. (And he has done several times)
I will let him know you regard him as a thug.
I love the way you start of by saying that you respect cyclists then proceed to sling every insult you can at them.
I will also let him know that whilst you respect him you reckon he is wasting his money and looks like a git.
Oh and his bike is not fit for purpose, and he will never win the Tour de France.
Cyclists are no different from any other group, good ones and not so good.
Putting them all into the one basket is like stating we all dump our cassettes by the roadside.
Oh and as for Clarksons quote, maybe let him know most of them already have cars. Well my my mate does, and a V6 camper.

 

[barryd]

Quoting Clarkson just about summed up that poor post.
My mate is a keen club cyclist, and a member of the Loch Lomond mountain rescue team.
He gets called out for no pay at all hours and risks his life to try to save others. (And he has done several times)
I will let him know you regard him as a thug.
I love the way you start of by saying that you respect cyclists then proceed to sling every insult you can at them.
I will also let him know that whilst you respect him you reckon he is wasting his money and looks like a git.
Oh and his bike is not fit for purpose, and he will never win the Tour de France.
Cyclists are no different from any other group, good ones and not so good.
Putting them all into the one basket is like stating we all dump our cassettes by the roadside.
Oh and as for Clarksons quote, maybe let him know most of them already have cars. Well my my mate does, and a V6 camper.

You tell him Bill! Miserable one eyed feckin Bear! He is even being fattist by making out I wont look good in Lycra. I bet his misses gave him Liver for his dinner or summat.

 

[colinm]

I have no time for at all, just another gang of thugs as far as I'm concerned, we often go out into the countryside and frequently go into a café for a coffee and they are bragging about how many cars they have pissed off on the way there, and this can be any age group up into their 70s.

I've just got back from my afternoon walk, in the village there's a tearoom frequented by cyclists and car drivers, they have had to put signs up asking motorists to "respect our nabours", as customer cars often park blocking peoples driveways.