Anyone ever see a cyclist get a ticket from a copper?

[PaulB]

I think these responses on helmet use has revealed what probably happened. The ride wasn't filmed but I do remember the rider having dark brown curly hair so in all likelihood wasn't wearing a helmet and the coppers did him for that. I did assume he may have removed it while chatting to the officers due to the heat but it was probably because he didn't have one to wear.

 

[Marchrider]

Even though in the bumpf that comes with every EN1078 lid clearly states they're not designed to provide protection in a vehicular impact?

I won't venture further than stating that particular fact as it pushes things very close to the threshold for the helmet section, but seeing as you mentioned it...

aye but, it makes me feel safer so I can ride faster amongst the heavy traffic - and as daft as that statement is, thre is some truth to it

anyways - moving quickly away from helmets and back to coppers

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

should it not be the other way around?
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in the summer I don't bother much with a lid in the countryside, seems little point - but I like it on in the centre of Edinburgh in case I get knocked off

This is the whole confusion in the mind of "the average person"

It seems to me - from experience AND looking at comments from doctors and reading proper studies - that the majority of serious head injuries are caused by either slow speed falls
or collisions with vehicles
both of which are less likely in the countryside where there are less cars and less reason to be going slowly

In urban areas you have lots of traffic and more chance of coming across someone driving badly hence more chance of having to ride slowly or stop - both of which can cause a slow speed fall
and more chance of colliding with something


but lets not develop a whole new "should it be compulsory to wear a cycle helmet" thread

I think maybe there are some around already????

 

[fossyant]

I know someone who got a ticking off for no lid, but was wearing a union jack cycling jersey and apologised profusely, calling in the bike shop for a lid pronto.

 

[FishFright]

Shouldn't this be in the official helmet denial thread ?

 

[Alex321]

I was given a ticket, many years ago, for cycling in the pedestrian area of Queen Street in Cardiff - this was at about 7:30 in the morning (on my way to work), when it was virtually empty.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I was given a ticket, many years ago, for cycling in the pedestrian area of Queen Street in Cardiff - this was at about 7:30 in the morning (on my way to work), when it was virtually empty.

It does annoy me when cyclist get a ticket for riding perfectly sensibly and causing no problem

but the k***heads shoot through at speed and can;t be caught
then the counsel crow about how they are tackling the problem!!

I read one person from "somewhere in the country" who had got a ticket for riding his bike at walking speed
then say on a bench with a coffee and watched a group of teenagers whizzing through, round some streets and then back through on a circuit laughing at the "enforcement officers" who had zero chance of catching them

I have no idea of how you stop that without spending all the Police budget for a month in one day - but it is annoying when I read about it!

 

[Drago]

If an enforcement "officer" stops you just ignore them. There's literally nothing they can legally do.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

If an enforcement "officer" stops you just ignore them. There's literally nothing they can legally do.

AKA -- they can only stop the nice people who obey moral rules and don;t cause a problem

 

[ianrauk]

I got a ticket about 10 years ago outside Buckingham Palace for riding on the pavement from a jumped up little hitler PCSO.
I think @topcat1 has the picture

 

[Moodyman]

Got a polite warning from an officer in a van at red lights. I passed the white line and stopped about 3 metres ahead to create myself an ASL. He thought I was going to jump the light.

 

[Moodyman]

On Spain, I have a couple of days riding from Bilbao, through the Pyrenees into France. It’ll be late September. Would this qualify me for the ‘too hot’ and ‘too hilly’ helmet exemption?

 

[ianrauk]

Found the evidence.
Story was there was a road closure out side Buck House. A real copper waved us onto the pavement, where we where then stopped by PCSO Gordon Brown of Belgravia nick who decided to only ticket me out of about a dozen other cyclists. I tried to appeal but got nowhere and had to stump up £30. And he was a jumped up little hitler, not listening to any reason and even taking off his name badge when I took a picture of him.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Found the evidence.
Story was there was a road closure out side Buck House. A real copper waved us onto the pavement, where we where then stopped by PCSO Gordon Brown of Belgravia nick who decided to only ticket me out of about a dozen other cyclists. I tried to appeal but got nowhere and had to stump up £30. And he was a jumped up little hitler, not listening to any reason and even taking off his name badge when I took a picture of him.
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Are they allowed to remove their name badge
I would have thought that would be grounds for an appeal in itself??

 

[ianrauk]

Are they allowed to remove their name badge
I would have thought that would be grounds for an appeal in itself??

Told them that and showed them the evidence but wouldn't have it. I couldn't be arsed to take it further and just coughed up.
The thing is we weren't even cycling, too many people as you can see in the picture. We were more scooting along very slowly.
At least I had the satisfaction of giving his hand a really, forceful hard whack when he grabbed my bike, me thinking it was someone trying to grab it off me.