Rob Cowell
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http://www.cyclingweekly.com/videos/watch/watch-cyclists-pulled-police-riding-two-abreast
You may already have seen this. I wonder what people think? I used to ride a bike a lot on the road. Because I now do all my riding with a 7 year old we try to stay off them, and I have to say when we do need to be on the road so far motorists have been very considerate.
The policeman here seems mostly wrong to me. He tells them it's against the law to ride two abreast. It isn't. He tells them they are causing other drivers to drive carelessly, which is possibly the most absurd statement I've heard from a professional driver. The highway code says you should (not must) switch to single file when the road is busy, which is open to pretty wild interpretation. I don't think it's wrong for the policeman to advise the cyclists he thinks the road is busy, but he makes such a hash of the rest of it my opinion of his opinion is severely diminished.
You may already have seen this. I wonder what people think? I used to ride a bike a lot on the road. Because I now do all my riding with a 7 year old we try to stay off them, and I have to say when we do need to be on the road so far motorists have been very considerate.
The policeman here seems mostly wrong to me. He tells them it's against the law to ride two abreast. It isn't. He tells them they are causing other drivers to drive carelessly, which is possibly the most absurd statement I've heard from a professional driver. The highway code says you should (not must) switch to single file when the road is busy, which is open to pretty wild interpretation. I don't think it's wrong for the policeman to advise the cyclists he thinks the road is busy, but he makes such a hash of the rest of it my opinion of his opinion is severely diminished.