Don't ride in groups or we will be stopped cycling completely.

[mjr]

No it's not, :
by being at the 2nd home they are potentially relieving pressure from the 1st home area. This is a non issue,

Ok I'm sure you know better than the people who planned NHS provision on the basis of first homes and the hospitals in places like Cornwall, Carmarthen and Cumbria can cope just fine if all holiday homes are unexpectedly occupied during a pandemic (!)

 

[vickster]

I feel it depends on the nature of the second home. If it's a holiday home in an area where these are significantly prevalent it has the potential to increase pressure on local resources.

Two homes in say London and Oxford are unlikely to create such a problem.

The PM would have been transported to Chequers in a car, presumably on medical advice to recuperate somewhere quiet away from the centre of Govt. It‘s not like he has gone to the countryside on a jolly like the Scottish CMO (twice) or the second homers to the Suffolk coast

 

[geocycle]

This is all futile really. There will always be some riding too far. It pales into insignificance against joyriders and second-homers including the former Scottish CMO and now the PM. Worrying about tiny numbers of cyclists is like fretting about a rural garden bonfire while our cities burn!

Quite, I’ve moderated my riding to daily 20 milers locally and i will not be heading out for a long ride in the Dales anytime soon as I’d not want to carry anything into another area. I’ve also cancelled my b and b for the tour de yorkshire even though it is in cycling range.

 

[vickster]

Ok I'm sure you know better than the people who planned NHS provision on the basis of first homes and the hospitals in places like Cornwall, Carmarthen and Cumbria can cope just fine if all holiday homes are unexpectedly occupied during a pandemic (!)

Chequers is about an hour from London though, it’s in Buckinghamshire (which beings with a B not a C)

 

[mjr]

Seriously, you really are on one aren't you, are you just trolling for a responses or do you actually believe the nonsense you are spouting?

I could ask the same. Well done. You roped me into that well and proper.

Anyway, back to the general point: people cycling from their homes is a tiny tiny problem compared to many of the risky behaviours currently seen out there. And the newspapers are being shooty self-gratification artist daffodils.

 

[mjr]

Chequers is about an hour from London though, it’s in Buckinghamshire (which beings with a B not a C)

Served by Stoke Mandeville rather than St Thomas's, whose capacity is presumably based on the number of primary residences in Bucks not London?

 

[BoldonLad]

Spain and Italy have banned outdoor exercise altogether. It'll be happening here soon, so if you have a dog I hope you have a garden.

Don't know about Italy, but, in Spain (and France), dog walking is still allowed.

 

[BoldonLad]

Does a car overtaking a cyclist have to abide by the 2m social distancing rule?

If only

 

[BoldonLad]

It is relevant as you have decided to flaunt what you have been asked to do, you have been asked to limit you exercise to 1 hour, you have all decided to ignore that as you clearly know better & double the amount of time. The relevance of urban/rural is that in an urban scenario your risk of contact or the potential to spread the infection is likely to be greater due to the greater risk of contact.
I'm not surprised less chance of being identified

Official link for this claim? Please...

 

[Mike_P]

Does a car overtaking a cyclist have to abide by the 2m social distancing rule?

If the windows are down yes although few seem to realise. Was turning right giving way to a car turning right into the road I was exiting and the driver passed by well within 2m with his window down. In contrast on another occasion I stopped at the top of a climb and was just about to set off when a car started to emerge from a drive on the left just in the front, the driver waved me on because he was turning right.
I am limiting my rides to a hour and a bit, the bit usually dependent on how bad the headwinds are, through the simple expediant of taking a single water bottle and nothing to eat. Means the cake tin typically gets ransacked when I get back

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Official link for this claim? Please...

Go back & read again please....

 

[hoopdriver]

Go back & read again please....

I did and it still says “ you’ve been asked to limit your exercise to one hour... “

And still the question remains, what is the official link for this claim?

a rhetorical question, actually, as the answer is well known. There is no official link or rule specifying the length in distance or duration in time for exercise.

 

[hoopdriver]

Try again, we both know the answer, now take your wooden spoon & do something useful with it!

I’ve already made a batch of oatmeal cookies today, thank you - and most sustaining they were, too, on my perfectly legitimate two hour ride through the countryside.

 

[PaulSB]

Yes. I think this makes sense for those fortunate to own more than one home. Choose which one you want to see out this period in and stay there..........no running back and forward.

I feel you are correct provided the numbers aren't huge. I believe there are areas, I can't name them, where second home ownership reaches 40/50% of the housing stock. As these homes are not used full time local services, in the broadest possible sense, may not be adequate if all the owners descended on an area.

 

[alicat]

Staffordshire police have requested the public stop reporting breaches of the guidelines because they cannot cope with the number of reports coming in.

I can believe that. I'm not really seeing much evidence of the lockdown being observed round here.