On 04/09/2011 07:51, Doug wrote:
On Saturday, September 3, 2011 12:39:20 PM UTC+1, Simon Mason wrote:
On Sep 3, 5:39 am, Peter wrote:
which I find strange. In my experience bicycling on the footpath is much
more dangerous also for the bicyclist than bicycling on the road.


Same here - even if it was legal to do so, I'd never cycle on the
pavement as it is too slow and there are too many give way points.

Agreed but surely some people cycle on the pavements because they consider the roads and its drivers too dangerous

That would be because they are using a child's toy as a form of
transport - it isn't viable. A silly Victorian diversion.

and therefore are prepared to put up with the many inconveniences of
pavement cycling?

Those 'inconveniences' are called pedestrians.

Personally I disagree with them because pavement motoring also
represents a danger to cyclists.

Because of their vulnerability cyclists have to make difficult choices

in an inequitable situation where drivers can kill them but they can't
kill drivers.

Which confirms that push bikes are not a viable form of transport.


--
Dave - Cyclists VOR. "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a
legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a
vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange," Dave Horton - Lancaster
University