Pavement cycling.

Cycled on the inside of that pavement this morning, instead of the outside. Don’t know why. Large bloke coming towards me. I think he’s seen me… Yes, he’s seen me… he didn’t see me.

Suddenly lurched to his left and barged me against the wall. Was it deliberate? Was it an accident? Don’t know. Don’t say anything. “Jesus, mate, you’ve got the whole fewkine road to cycle on”!

About to say sorry then he kicks the back wheel. Hard. Couple of spokes broken and maybe the hub gears are furrked.

How’s YOUR start to the day? 🙁

hub gears are ****

HINT: The mods are coming down heavy on SFA…still a chance to edit 🙂

EDIT: Yes, you should be on the road I’m afraid, but his overreaction was quite scary.

Your gears will be fine.

Sounds like an idiot but he’s right…you should be on the road!

Yeah….

you could’ve kicked him. hard.

would have called the cops.

Is this a troll?

Just because you were breaking the law does not give him the right to assault you or commit criminal damage.

I believe that anything smaller than 29er/700 wheels is legally allowed to use the pavement…..otherwise little kiddies would be forced to use the roads. What size wheels did you have ?

would have called the cops.

how would you start the call .. well officer i was illegally riding my bike….

i didnt think it was down to tyre size… IIRC its anyone under the age of 11 is allowed to ride on the pavement. but i’m probably wrong as that little nugget of knowledge seems to come from about 16 years ago in my brain.

ernie – thats a myth I am afraid. there is guidance that cops should not prosecute small children for riding on the pavement however theree is no legal exemption

ernie – thats a myth

LOL ! 😀

(I really did laugh out loud !)

It’s a Brompton.

He was very big. I didn’t pursue it…

TJ is correct.

You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement.
[Laws HA 1835 sect 72 & R(S)A 1984, sect 129]

Bang out of order !! Where did this happen Mr Whoppit?
I cycle with my 10 year old boy to and from school every day. We use a mix of pavement and road.
Get the odd abuse/remark from (mostly) old pedestrians, but I am always polite and give them right of way or stop for them to pass.
The little kiddies on the fringes of being out of control on their little scooters are a bigger danger to pedestrians than a responsible cyclist in full control of his bike. 💡

Pavement alongside the wall at the boundary of St Katherine’s Dock, Wapping.

Giving my Brommo a kicking because he got bumped into DID seem a bit extreme, to me.

TJ fully correct, legally and morally.

You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement.

How about if I fit stabalisers to my bike?

Fine for kids to ride on pavements. You should ride on the road with the rest of the grown-ups.

I often see a couple of cops cycle past my office on the pavement having a chat and ambling along. Eases my guilt as I ride out of the office onto the pavement and just round the corner to skip the lights. Very quiet pavement though and the lights take around 5 minutes to change. I’d never ride on the pavement in a built up area but the rage above was a touch ott.

iwluap easy to say that but you don’t know the circumstances.

how would you start the call .. well officer i was illegally riding my bike….

and then some judge dread style oaf assaulted me and damaged my bike.

why fit stabalisers to your bike when you can fit them…. to your shoes!

the real mans version of those awful “heelie” shoes, just glide to work

Should have kicked off unless he was really big. As long as you were been careful and considerate I think riding on the pavement for safety is fine.

Bloke was a [omit swear word] idiot who deserved at least a smack in the mouth. There’s a lot of them about unfortunately.

On my ride to work, the pavement is the cyclepath. Even past the school. Bloody ridiculous, which is why I don’t use it.

It’s legal to cycle on the path where I live.

Has been since 1987 I believe.

why fit stabalisers to your bike when you can fit them…. to your shoes!

the real mans version of those awful “heelie” shoes, just glide to work

Real men wear pavement crampons

Surely the point is not whether it was legal to cycle where you did, but whether sad bloke could cause criminal damage deliberately to your property.

You could legitimately have called the cops, doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be after your house and family next though.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. He wouldn’t have got away with it with me.

maybe he was just warming up to sort out some pavement parkers

“Jesus, mate, you’ve got the whole fewkine road to cycle on”!

You should have lamped him for using the Lord’s name in vain.

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, you should have scraped his face off with a hammer drill and beat him to death with your penis… that’s what real men do.

LOL @ Phil 😀

(Makes mental note to buy Big Dave a pint next time he sees him…)

Thing is, sounds like he tried to prevent you from further continuing your journey along the pavement. He could argue he was trying to impede your progress to prevent potential harm to other pavement users.

Knowing the area as well as I do, there’s no reason to use any pavement round near ST Kat’s dock. I’m sure there are ‘No Cycling’ signs up around there. Plenty of alternative routes, or be courteous and respectful to others, and get off and walk.

I suspect you’ll be doing so in that area in future, and maybe elsewhere. So, in a roundabout way, the bloke’s behaviour is actually morally justifiable in some ways. Understandable, certainly.

Can’t have been an STWer though, or you may have ended up in the basin itself…. 😉

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. He wouldn’t have got away with it with me.

Don’t be silly Peter; what if the bloke had pulled out a knife and stabbed you in the face?

you’re lucky he didnt have syeel toe caps on !!! (did he) ?…. 😉

steel toe-caps 😉

Don’t be silly Peter; what if the bloke had pulled out a knife and stabbed you in the face

simples, PP would have turned his head sideways and the knife would’ve gone through the hole in his ear along with the mans arm, using his mighty lobe-strength PP would have then spun around, thus whipping the man into the air and into the wall head first causing minor bruising on the forehead… enough to teach any man a lesson i feel.

there’s a lot of illegal stuff that everyone does each day. i don’t like these law crusaders. anyway, in barcelona it’s legal to cycle on the pavement provided that you respect and give way to pedestrians and that the pavement is at least 5m wide. that works well in a planned city with a grid-system and with wide roads. problem is that the drivers are really aggressive c*nts so going on the road is not an option.
at least in london the traffic is much calmer and cyclists are more respected (believe me they are) compared with a southern european city so normally going on the road is OK.

Fair enough, I don’t know the circumstances and in no way condone the bike bashing behaviour (although I sometimes think bad thoughts about cars and wing mirrors or SPD scrapes down the side… due to poor driving) but on the whole if there is a choice between road or pavement I think it is an adults responsibilty to be on the road, set a good example and all that. I may be a prude as I don’t cycle across pedestrian crossings while the lights are on red like some of my other biker commrades but that’s just me.

People like that wheel crunching mother licker just want an excuse. I’ve had old folk shout at me as I ride the pavement; sometimes the road system asks you to go around a 3 lane filter system to reach your destination less than 10m away. I think it’s better to get out of the car’s way on this horrible “gyratory” than hold everyone up doing the right thing. I do stop for red lights and try and cycle as correctly as possible, but maybe the answer is get off and walk on these connecting bits of pavement?

Or people need some perspective to see that life’s too short to go about “correcting” people.

Schadenfreude=pleasure at someone elses expense.

Sorry to hear that happen to you!