Hi All

Just had an interesting chat with a guy who is adamant that a bicycle is a vehicle and therefore not legally entitled to use a bridleway over common land,can anyone point me to a legal definition of a bicycle that I can use to silence this nitwit?
Ta.

what a bicycle is is irrelevant, Bikes are allowed on bridleways,

Countryside act 1968 section 30 i think.

Yep, that’s it. It’s nothing to do with ‘vehicles’ and everything to do with, specifically, bicycles.

Thanks for helping…it involves a well known Surrey riding spot…I want to nip this in the bud.

“Any member of the public shall have, as a right of way, the right to ride a bicycle, [not being a mechanically propelled vehicle], on any bridleway, but in exercising that right cyclists shall give way to pedestrians and persons on horseback.”