A 24" wheel bike to use for cycle training. It's quite heavy, but solidly built with good components. 10 gears.
It was initially sold for £5.55, outbidding my £5.05 maximum bid. However, the buyer didn't contact the seller, and the bike was offered to me for a fiver.
I collected it by car and took it home. I then transported it to school by bungeeing it to my rear rack. I got pulled over by the police for having a wide load.
Good grief!
I thanked them for their vigilence and asked if they similarly pulled over cars with bikes on their rear racks. There then follwed a conversation about licensing (sp? c or s I can never remember) and road tax. I politely pointed out that I have a licence and have in the past paid road tax but as I only borrow cars now I no longer pay directly. Anyway, they asked me where I was taking the bike and when I told them they let me on my way.
A 24" wheel bike to use for cycle training. It's quite heavy, but solidly built with good components. 10 gears.
It was initially sold for £5.55, outbidding my £5.05 maximum bid. However, the buyer didn't contact the seller, and the bike was offered to me for a fiver.
I collected it by car and took it home. I then transported it to school by bungeeing it to my rear rack. I got pulled over by the police for having a wide load.
Did the officers indicate the basis on which they found your wide load worthy of their attention? I can't think of any basis for such an intervention, other than perhaps a general requirement for a ridden bike to be stable and not overloaded. Did they quote any statute or was it just nosiness or the shock of the different?
Did the officers indicate the basis on which they found your wide load worthy of their attention? I can't think of any basis for such an intervention, other than perhaps a general requirement for a ridden bike to be stable and not overloaded. Did they quote any statute or was it just nosiness or the shock of the different?
Perhaps the officers were concerned that Tom would forget about the wide load and endanger himself and/or others by not taking the increased width into account when going through narrow gaps or through places with limited clearance. After all didn't a poster here enquire about the logistics of making a claim for bike that (s)he had strappd to a roof rack and forgot about as (s)he drove under a limited headroom bar? Didn't someone here complain about a a driver who had failed to take into account the width of a towed caravan when (s)he was overtaken?
Human error and forgetfulness can lead to accidents. I wouldn't be surprised or indignant if I was stopped by the police for transporting a bike on the luggage rack of a bike. It is sufficiently unusual to attract the attention of plod. It isn't a thing that I would contemplate doing myself but there again I don't have the cycle-centric mindset of some of the cycle-centric posters here. On the other hand I don't see anything wrong with playing bagpipes within hearshot of people nearer than 400m ;-)
In article <[email hidden]> Tom Crispin <[email hidden]> wrote: <snip>
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I collected it by car and took it home. I then transported it to school by bungeeing it to my rear rack. I got pulled over by the police for having a wide load.
Good grief!
There was a chap who regularly brought his bike to time trials on the back of a motorcycle, and that didn't seem to cause any problems ...
A 24" wheel bike to use for cycle training. It's quite heavy, but solidly built with good components. 10 gears.
It was initially sold for £5.55, outbidding my £5.05 maximum bid. However, the buyer didn't contact the seller, and the bike was offered to me for a fiver.
I collected it by car and took it home. I then transported it to school by bungeeing it to my rear rack. I got pulled over by the police for having a wide load.
Did the officers indicate the basis on which they found your wide load worthy of their attention? I can't think of any basis for such an intervention, other than perhaps a general requirement for a ridden bike to be stable and not overloaded. Did they quote any statute or was it just nosiness or the shock of the different?
A 24" wheel bike to use for cycle training. It's quite heavy, but solidly built with good components. 10 gears.
It was initially sold for £5.55, outbidding my £5.05 maximum bid. However, the buyer didn't contact the seller, and the bike was offered to me for a fiver.
I collected it by car and took it home. I then transported it to school by bungeeing it to my rear rack. I got pulled over by the police for having a wide load.
Did the officers indicate the basis on which they found your wide load worthy of their attention? I can't think of any basis for such an intervention, other than perhaps a general requirement for a ridden bike to be stable and not overloaded. Did they quote any statute or was it just nosiness or the shock of the different?
Usual reason is that number plate is obscured.
It's slightly unclear, but I think Tom had *no number plate at all*. He was on a bike when he was stopped.
