Is it legal? Wearing a MP3 player whilst cycling?

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I'm talking about on the cyclepaths, next to the riverbank. Not main
roads.

It's /legal/ on main roads. Whether it's wise or not... In my distant youth
I used a walkman and good head-banging music when commuting by bike in
heavy traffic on main roads. Great adrenaline rush.

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I'm talking about on the cyclepaths, next to the riverbank. Not main
roads.

Yes it is, but you'll probably have it stolen during your first ride
with it.

And then you'll be pushed into the river.

Cue next question: cyclist deaths by drowning?

Dunno, but in the last month I've spoken to two cyclists who've ended up in
canals (with their bike). Must be a Manchester thing shrugs.

On 11 May, 00:10, Mark Thompson
pleasegivegenerously@warmmail*_turn_up_the_heat_t o_reply*.com wrote:
I'm talking about on the cyclepaths, next to the riverbank. Not main
roads.

Yes it is, but you'll probably have it stolen during your first ride
with it.

And then you'll be pushed into the river.

Cue next question: cyclist deaths by drowning?

Dunno, but in the last month I've spoken to two cyclists who've ended up in
canals (with their bike). Must be a Manchester thing shrugs.

Hahaha. Brilliant.

On 10 May, 23:31, Simon Brooke wrote:
It's /legal/ on main roads. Whether it's wise or not... In my distant youth
I used a walkman and good head-banging music when commuting by bike in
heavy traffic on main roads. Great adrenaline rush.

In my distant youth they hadn't invented the walkman. I used to tie a
cassette player to the crossbar.

POHB wrote:
On 10 May, 23:31, Simon Brooke wrote:
It's /legal/ on main roads. Whether it's wise or not... In my distant youth
I used a walkman and good head-banging music when commuting by bike in
heavy traffic on main roads. Great adrenaline rush.

In my distant youth they hadn't invented the walkman. I used to tie a
cassette player to the crossbar.


Yes but that was in the good days of the cassette player. It used to be
murder tying the radiogram to the handlebars...

--
Brian G
www.wetwo.co.uk

On May 11, 10:46 am, Brian G wrote:
POHB wrote:
On 10 May, 23:31, Simon Brooke wrote:
It's /legal/ on main roads. Whether it's wise or not... In my distant youth
I used a walkman and good head-banging music when commuting by bike in
heavy traffic on main roads. Great adrenaline rush.

In my distant youth they hadn't invented the walkman. I used to tie a
cassette player to the crossbar.

Yes but that was in the good days of the cassette player. It used to be
murder tying the radiogram to the handlebars...

at least the wind up gramphone could be pressed into service as a
power assist device when necessary and left you free of the range
limitaions of a power cord

:-)

Brian G wrote:
Yes but that was in the good days of the cassette player. It used to be
murder tying the radiogram to the handlebars...

I used to own a yelow Radio Rover, purchased from Halfords in 198x. It
was an AM receiver which needed retuning every time I turned a corner
and operated from a PP3 battery. Oh the days of being able to get Radio
3 on medium wave.

wrote:
On May 11, 10:46 am, Brian G wrote:
POHB wrote:
On 10 May, 23:31, Simon Brooke wrote:
It's /legal/ on main roads. Whether it's wise or not... In my distant youth
I used a walkman and good head-banging music when commuting by bike in
heavy traffic on main roads. Great adrenaline rush.
In my distant youth they hadn't invented the walkman. I used to tie a
cassette player to the crossbar.
Yes but that was in the good days of the cassette player. It used to be
murder tying the radiogram to the handlebars...

at least the wind up gramphone could be pressed into service as a
power assist device when necessary and left you free of the range
limitaions of a power cord

Hah! you had it easy, I like to listen to opera. You try looking round
the Fat Lady sitting on your handlebars to see where you are going!

--
Don Whybrow

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such thing has truly occurred! A mere slogan, an empty litany.
No arguments are heard, no evidence is weighed. It isn't news at
all, only a source of amusement for idlers." (Gibson-Sterling,
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in message , Don Whybrow
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wrote:
On May 11, 10:46 am, Brian G wrote:
POHB wrote:
On 10 May, 23:31, Simon Brooke wrote:
It's /legal/ on main roads. Whether it's wise or not... In my distant
youth I used a walkman and good head-banging music when commuting by
bike in heavy traffic on main roads. Great adrenaline rush.
In my distant youth they hadn't invented the walkman. I used to tie a
cassette player to the crossbar.
Yes but that was in the good days of the cassette player. It used to be
murder tying the radiogram to the handlebars...

at least the wind up gramphone could be pressed into service as a
power assist device when necessary and left you free of the range
limitaions of a power cord

Hah! you had it easy, I like to listen to opera. You try looking round
the Fat Lady sitting on your handlebars to see where you are going!

That's no way to speak of your lady wife!

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; have mercy on the slender grass

On 11 May, 20:13, Don Whybrow
In my distant youth they hadn't invented the walkman. I used to tie a
cassette player to the crossbar.
Yes but that was in the good days of the cassette player. It used to be
murder tying the radiogram to the handlebars...

at least the wind up gramphone could be pressed into service as a
power assist device when necessary and left you free of the range
limitaions of a power cord

Hah! you had it easy, I like to listen to opera. You try looking round
the Fat Lady sitting on your handlebars to see where you are going!

and you had to be careful not to run over the kids eating handfuls of
cold gravel in their cardboard box in t' middle o' t' road