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Topic Started: 29 Feb 2012, 05:40 PM (5,904 Views)
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Now all you cyclists,tell me,is there a different law for you in Reading.When you jump the lights and just miss the cars that are coming across you do you think it's funny.When you ride in the middle of the inside lane up the A33cant you see the 15ft cycle path that cost a few grand if you cared to look to your left? Another thing,those flickering lights that you got on your head like Beachy Head lighthouse,do you know that they half blind motorists coming the other way.Reading seem to have the worse cyclists in the universe,perhaps it's time the government made them pay say 50quid a year road tax.I know motorist sometime p@@s you off and they can be just as annoying to you,but come on,obey the law.
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29 Jul 2013, 08:56 AM
Hayes
29 Feb 2012, 05:40 PM
Now all you cyclists,tell me,is there a different law for you in Reading.When you jump the lights and just miss the cars that are coming across you do you think it's funny.When you ride in the middle of the inside lane up the A33cant you see the 15ft cycle path that cost a few grand if you cared to look to your left? Another thing,those flickering lights that you got on your head like Beachy Head lighthouse,do you know that they half blind motorists coming the other way.Reading seem to have the worse cyclists in the universe,perhaps it's time the government made them pay say 50quid a year road tax.I know motorist sometime p@@s you off and they can be just as annoying to you,but come on,obey the law.
Did you not reed Daib0's earleir quote? No one pays "Road Tax". The roads are paid out of Tax payers money, which Cyclists pay aswell. Car owners pay tax as their cars release emmisions.

I can understand anger at Cyclists who jump red lights and take uneccesary risks, such as the one Cribsie encountered. I encounter idiott cyclists while on my bike!

Mike, you need to cool it a bit though mate. Every time you blanketly slag off all Cyclists, it makes my blood boil as some of us do pay attention and obey the rules of the road. Do you condone what that woman did?

I take the utmoast care on the road for one reason; I'm the one at most risk, not you in your two tonne box of steel. Be warned, if any motorist drives aggressively near me, you better not stop because I'll tear your head off!
Crikey Steve that was the beginning of the thread ages ago,cant rake that up,I know your a good cyclist,you have told me.

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Hayes
14 Oct 2013, 12:03 PM
Tilehurstsouthbank
29 Jul 2013, 08:56 AM
Hayes
29 Feb 2012, 05:40 PM
Now all you cyclists,tell me,is there a different law for you in Reading.When you jump the lights and just miss the cars that are coming across you do you think it's funny.When you ride in the middle of the inside lane up the A33cant you see the 15ft cycle path that cost a few grand if you cared to look to your left? Another thing,those flickering lights that you got on your head like Beachy Head lighthouse,do you know that they half blind motorists coming the other way.Reading seem to have the worse cyclists in the universe,perhaps it's time the government made them pay say 50quid a year road tax.I know motorist sometime p@@s you off and they can be just as annoying to you,but come on,obey the law.
Did you not reed Daib0's earleir quote? No one pays "Road Tax". The roads are paid out of Tax payers money, which Cyclists pay aswell. Car owners pay tax as their cars release emmisions.

I can understand anger at Cyclists who jump red lights and take uneccesary risks, such as the one Cribsie encountered. I encounter idiott cyclists while on my bike!

Mike, you need to cool it a bit though mate. Every time you blanketly slag off all Cyclists, it makes my blood boil as some of us do pay attention and obey the rules of the road. Do you condone what that woman did?

I take the utmoast care on the road for one reason; I'm the one at most risk, not you in your two tonne box of steel. Be warned, if any motorist drives aggressively near me, you better not stop because I'll tear your head off!
Crikey Steve that was the beginning of the thread ages ago,cant rake that up,I know your a good cyclist,you have told me.
You two don't talk to each other very often do you! :D :D :D
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SuffolkRoyal
14 Oct 2013, 12:06 PM
Hayes
14 Oct 2013, 12:03 PM
Tilehurstsouthbank
29 Jul 2013, 08:56 AM
Hayes
29 Feb 2012, 05:40 PM
Now all you cyclists,tell me,is there a different law for you in Reading.When you jump the lights and just miss the cars that are coming across you do you think it's funny.When you ride in the middle of the inside lane up the A33cant you see the 15ft cycle path that cost a few grand if you cared to look to your left? Another thing,those flickering lights that you got on your head like Beachy Head lighthouse,do you know that they half blind motorists coming the other way.Reading seem to have the worse cyclists in the universe,perhaps it's time the government made them pay say 50quid a year road tax.I know motorist sometime p@@s you off and they can be just as annoying to you,but come on,obey the law.
Did you not reed Daib0's earleir quote? No one pays "Road Tax". The roads are paid out of Tax payers money, which Cyclists pay aswell. Car owners pay tax as their cars release emmisions.

I can understand anger at Cyclists who jump red lights and take uneccesary risks, such as the one Cribsie encountered. I encounter idiott cyclists while on my bike!

Mike, you need to cool it a bit though mate. Every time you blanketly slag off all Cyclists, it makes my blood boil as some of us do pay attention and obey the rules of the road. Do you condone what that woman did?

I take the utmoast care on the road for one reason; I'm the one at most risk, not you in your two tonne box of steel. Be warned, if any motorist drives aggressively near me, you better not stop because I'll tear your head off!
Crikey Steve that was the beginning of the thread ages ago,cant rake that up,I know your a good cyclist,you have told me.
You two don't talk to each other very often do you! :D :D :D
Well I like Steve,behind the scenes he has stepped into the breech where some of us fear to tread :wub: ,but we will never agree on cyclist though I do like to rib him a bit on the odd occasion,he always gets his own back though ;)

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It ain't always their fault Mike ...


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I particular like to see them taking the right hand route,I could watch them all day :D :D

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Is that Mike? :blink:
All depends whose been riding it :D :D ;)

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From today's Blackpool Gazette:

"A shop manager has criticised police after he was arrested and put in custody - for not having lights on his pedal cycle. Edward Copland, 38, found himself taken off the streets, placed in a police car and processed by a custody sergeant before being put in the cells. He was later released only to receive a court summons through the post.

Mr Copland spoke out after stepping down from the dock at Blackpool Magistrates Court saying: "What a complete waste of public money. It must have cost thousands in police and court time to put me through this." Mr Copland was on his way home from work when he was seen by police pedalling along Lytham Road. He was stopped and arrested.

Magistrates formally withdrew the case against him before he had the chance to plead guilty to the crime. Crown Prosecutor Alison Quanbrough told the justices: "I must admit I was surprised to see this allegation brought to court. It would appear it was dark at the time and the defendant was wearing dark clothing. The police also say it was a dark coloured bike. However I do feel it is not in the public interest to continue and take this allegation any further. One does begin to wonder what is going on."

Stephen Duffy, defending, said: "I thank the Court for showing common sense. There is great cause for concern that this man was arrested and processed through the cells because he did not have lights on his bike." Chairman of the bench, Derek Jesson, commented: "My colleagues and I were a little surprised when we saw this on our list."

Outside court Mr Copland added: "OK I did not have the lights on - but the hour had just changed on the clocks and normally it would have been light on my way home."

A spokesman for Lancashire Police said: "Mr Copland was arrested and taken to a police station after he refused to provide his details."


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On the face of it it seems heavy handed, but if he wasn't prepared to co-operate with the police then its his own fault. But a summons to court is ridiculous, he should have been given a police caution or, at most, an 'on the spot' fine.
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