Driving on bridleways
Splottboy
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Someone was fined £900 for driving on a bridleway to the edge of a 100ft cliff.
They blamed their Sat Nav. The RAC said not to be so trusting - I think they meant "stupid".
Pity it wasn't James Martin, in the dark, in a storm, with no windscreen wipers, on bald tyres
They blamed their Sat Nav. The RAC said not to be so trusting - I think they meant "stupid".
Pity it wasn't James Martin, in the dark, in a storm, with no windscreen wipers, on bald tyres
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Surely driving on a bridleway is no different to cycling on a footpath.Northwind wrote: It's like I covered it in superglue and rode it through ebay.0
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Let me see...a human powered vehicle that is only .25 horsepower weighing approx 12 stone, versus an ave. 80 horsepower vehicle capable of 100 mph, weighing a ton.
I know what I'd take my chances being hit by...
Tell you what, go to your local A+E and ask how many people are brought in per year for
A, Road Traffic Accidents or
B, Cyclists riding on footpaths.
Better still, I'll ask the Mrs how the family reacted when she took them to the morgue to see their 17yr old daughter, who face was missing, after a Banned, Drugged, Pissed, Disabled teenager crashed into a tree in Anglesey, killing 4 people. He survived...0 -
Ah, X is worse than Y, therefore Y is fine! I like it
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:roll:BorisSpencer wrote:Surely driving on a bridleway is no different to cycling on a footpath.
I'm lost for words. Really, I am.0 -
REALLY? His car actually had to HIT the fence? He didn;t even see it and stop?He only realised something was wrong when his car hit a fence
Sounds like a bigger idiot than Boris Spencer.0 -
Lol, some people shouldn't be allowed to drive. Or leave the house.
Idiots. I think some people rely way too much on technology these days...0 -
One local lad has had two run in's - literally - with drivers. The first knocked him off by himself, many back operations later, he got back into road riding.
Second, he was with a group on a Sunday road ride. Boy Racer drove past dangerously,
knocking some of them off. When they shouted for him to take care, he STOPPED, REVERSED AND TRIED TO BACK OVER THEM!!!
Yes, he went to court, banned, fined blah-blah-blah. But No Excuse for this a-hole...
I've heard similar stories like this.0 -
speaking about roadrage and using 2T of metal as a battering ram, there was a cyclist in Toronto lost a leg late last year when he got into a verbal with a taxi driver and the driver backed into him, pinning him against a lamppost. Pretty much severed the guy's leg on the spot.
Taxi driver drove away then a while later called in an attempted robbery but the cops didn't buy it and the guy changed his story later on. TO police charged him with assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder, which surprised me a little (just because there seems to a tendancey to sweep these things aside, at least that's the way it feels) but then the injury was so severe that I suppose they had to throw the book at him.
There are some severe anger management issues out there and guys who can't control their anger shouldn't be allowed in charge of something so dangerous as a car.
as for following your GPS down a bridleway into a fence; you can only laugh really, can't you? I recall a story last year of some Germans (I think) driving their car into a river because their GPS swore blind that there was a bridge there....Everything in moderation ... except beer
Beer in moderation ... is a waste of beer
If riding an XC race bike is like touching the trail,
then riding a rigid singlespeed is like licking it
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yeah, I remember that. there's a piece of the picture to the right which is cropped where you see a cop car. Turns out the cop car was escorting the riders but had pulled away when he saw the car barrelling in. My immediate reaction at the time was "WTF why didn't the cop put his car between this nutter and the collection of exposed legs and arms he was charged with protecting" but n second thoughts that's considerably easier said than done. There was a case in Ireland around the same time I think where some dude did a similar thing .. but on purpose. :shock:Everything in moderation ... except beer
Beer in moderation ... is a waste of beer
If riding an XC race bike is like touching the trail,
then riding a rigid singlespeed is like licking it
... or being punched by it, depending on the day0 -
Surely driving on a bridleway is no different to cycling on a footpath.
Well for starters, one's usually a criminal offence, the other usually isn't.0 -
BorisSpencer wrote:Surely driving on a bridleway is no different to cycling on a footpath.
£900 says otherwise.0 -
Best thing to do (IMO) in that instance is to slowly fall onto the car- if its slow enough, if you fall onto it (down the side works best!) with the handlebars with ally bar ends.... that are rough from well, er whatever... :twisted:
As for the original post, enough Star/Sun/Mail readers keep doing things like this, its to be expected! 0 -
Mancunianfightingcat wrote:probably this tool...
Really it couldn't have got much worse for him - he was in a BMW!! Obviously he'd passed the Advanced BMW Driving Course!!
You know, the one where they disconnect the indicators, tell you it's OK to be a total tw@t and that tailgating is perfectly acceptable.0 -
Hell yes.dave_hill wrote:
Someone posted a road "race" video recently, of some couriers or something in london.
Biggest bunch of arseholes I've ever seen :roll:
I never understood the aggro cyclists get in London, until I saw that.0
