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Old August 7th 20, 11:32 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Default Nick Freeman appears on Good Morning Britain calling for "registeredtabards" for cyclists

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Freeman called for the 1988 Road Traffic Act to be updated to include cyclists, and that cyclists must be "held accountable"; this is despite Freeman specialising in helping celebrities avoid motoring convictions, counting Jeremy Clarkson and David Beckham amongst his former clients. He said: "I welcome the increase in cyclists, I think it's fantastic and Boris Johnson is on the right track. But we do now need to regulate, if there are 8 million (cyclists) on our roads."

Duncan Dollimore of Cycling UK tried to explain the complications and costs involved in registering millions of bicycles in the UK to Mr Freeman, saying: "The reality is that 99.3% of pedestrians who die on our roads are involved in a collision with a motor vehicle. We have a situation where 41 cyclists died last year in a collision with drivers. No driver or car passenger was involved in a death in those and haven't been in recent years.

"The reality is that statistically cyclists don't present that risk, so we don't regulate them the same way that we regulate drivers. If we chose to regulate them (cyclists) we'd have to regulate people owning 25 million bikes in the UK, including 7 million children who ride bikes regularly."

Freeman then pulls out his "registered tabard" idea that he has floated numerous times in the past, saying: "I'm suggesting that all cyclists should be registered, there should be a registered tabard, identifiable with that particular person so that we know at any one time who is on a cycle."

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Old August 7th 20, 04:31 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Default Nick Freeman appears on Good Morning Britain calling for "registered tabards" for cyclists

On 07/08/2020 11:32, Simon Mason wrote:
QUOTE:
Freeman called for the 1988 Road Traffic Act to be updated to include cyclists, and that cyclists must be "held accountable"; this is despite Freeman specialising in helping celebrities avoid motoring convictions, counting Jeremy Clarkson and David Beckham amongst his former clients. He said: "I welcome the increase in cyclists, I think it's fantastic and Boris Johnson is on the right track. But we do now need to regulate, if there are 8 million (cyclists) on our roads."

Duncan Dollimore of Cycling UK tried to explain the complications and costs involved in registering millions of bicycles in the UK to Mr Freeman, saying: "The reality is that 99.3% of pedestrians who die on our roads are involved in a collision with a motor vehicle. We have a situation where 41 cyclists died last year in a collision with drivers. No driver or car passenger was involved in a death in those and haven't been in recent years.

"The reality is that statistically cyclists don't present that risk, so we don't regulate them the same way that we regulate drivers. If we chose to regulate them (cyclists) we'd have to regulate people owning 25 million bikes in the UK, including 7 million children who ride bikes regularly."

Freeman then pulls out his "registered tabard" idea that he has floated numerous times in the past, saying: "I'm suggesting that all cyclists should be registered, there should be a registered tabard, identifiable with that particular person so that we know at any one time who is on a cycle."

https://road.cc/content/news/cycling...st-2020-276261


Did anyone "explain" why the law shouldn't appy to cyclists and cycling?
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Old August 7th 20, 05:12 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Default Nick Freeman appears on Good Morning Britain calling for "registered tabards" for cyclists

On Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:31:59 GMT, JNugent
wrote:

On 07/08/2020 11:32, Simon Mason wrote:
QUOTE:
Freeman called for the 1988 Road Traffic Act to be updated to include
cyclists, and that cyclists must be "held accountable"; this is
despite Freeman specialising in helping celebrities avoid motoring
convictions, counting Jeremy Clarkson and David Beckham amongst his
former clients. He said: "I welcome the increase in cyclists, I think
it's fantastic and Boris Johnson is on the right track. But we do now
need to regulate, if there are 8 million (cyclists) on our roads."

Duncan Dollimore of Cycling UK tried to explain the complications and
costs involved in registering millions of bicycles in the UK to Mr
Freeman, saying: "The reality is that 99.3% of pedestrians who die on
our roads are involved in a collision with a motor vehicle. We have a
situation where 41 cyclists died last year in a collision with
drivers. No driver or car passenger was involved in a death in those
and haven't been in recent years.

"The reality is that statistically cyclists don't present that risk,
so we don't regulate them the same way that we regulate drivers. If
we chose to regulate them (cyclists) we'd have to regulate people
owning 25 million bikes in the UK, including 7 million children who
ride bikes regularly."

Freeman then pulls out his "registered tabard" idea that he has
floated numerous times in the past, saying: "I'm suggesting that all
cyclists should be registered, there should be a registered tabard,
identifiable with that particular person so that we know at any one
time who is on a cycle."

https://road.cc/content/news/cycling...st-2020-276261


Did anyone "explain" why the law shouldn't appy to cyclists and
cycling?

Did you not notice this bit?

Freeman, saying: "The reality is that 99.3% of pedestrians who die on
our roads are involved in a collision with a motor vehicle. We have a



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Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
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Old August 7th 20, 08:50 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
JNugent[_12_]
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Default Nick Freeman appears on Good Morning Britain calling for"registered tabards" for cyclists

On 07/08/2020 17:12, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
On Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:31:59 GMT, JNugent
wrote:

On 07/08/2020 11:32, Simon Mason wrote:
QUOTE:
Freeman called for the 1988 Road Traffic Act to be updated to include
cyclists, and that cyclists must be "held accountable"; this is
despite Freeman specialising in helping celebrities avoid motoring
convictions, counting Jeremy Clarkson and David Beckham amongst his
former clients. He said: "I welcome the increase in cyclists, I think
it's fantastic and Boris Johnson is on the right track. But we do now
need to regulate, if there are 8 million (cyclists) on our roads."

Duncan Dollimore of Cycling UK tried to explain the complications and
costs involved in registering millions of bicycles in the UK to Mr
Freeman, saying: "The reality is that 99.3% of pedestrians who die on
our roads are involved in a collision with a motor vehicle. We have a
situation where 41 cyclists died last year in a collision with
drivers. No driver or car passenger was involved in a death in those
and haven't been in recent years.

"The reality is that statistically cyclists don't present that risk,
so we don't regulate them the same way that we regulate drivers. If
we chose to regulate them (cyclists) we'd have to regulate people
owning 25 million bikes in the UK, including 7 million children who
ride bikes regularly."

Freeman then pulls out his "registered tabard" idea that he has
floated numerous times in the past, saying: "I'm suggesting that all
cyclists should be registered, there should be a registered tabard,
identifiable with that particular person so that we know at any one
time who is on a cycle."

https://road.cc/content/news/cycling...st-2020-276261


Did anyone "explain" why the law shouldn't appy to cyclists and
cycling?

Did you not notice this bit?

Freeman, saying: "The reality is that 99.3% of pedestrians who die on
our roads are involved in a collision with a motor vehicle. We have a


I did.

Your question certainly doesn't answer mine.

Did anyone "explain" why the law shouldn't apply to cyclists and cycling?
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Old August 8th 20, 10:28 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Default Nick Freeman appears on Good Morning Britain calling for "registered tabards" for cyclists

On 07/08/2020 17:12, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
Freeman, saying: "The reality is that 99.3% of pedestrians who die on
our roads are involved in a collision with a motor vehicle.


Ah, but drivers don't mean to do it, and have a perfect sense of
appropriate speed together with fast reactions at sounding the horn so
it doesn't count. Whereas cyclists come from nowhere like bats out of
hell and scream and shout, therefore they are evil.
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Old August 9th 20, 01:08 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Kerr-Mudd,John[_3_]
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Default Nick Freeman appears on Good Morning Britain calling for "registered tabards" for cyclists

On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 09:28:03 GMT, TMS320 wrote:

On 07/08/2020 17:12, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
Freeman, saying: "The reality is that 99.3% of pedestrians who die on
our roads are involved in a collision with a motor vehicle.


Ah, but drivers don't mean to do it, and have a perfect sense of
appropriate speed together with fast reactions at sounding the horn so
it doesn't count. Whereas cyclists come from nowhere like bats out of
hell and scream and shout, therefore they are evil.


And they might be committing an illegality! Thus car drivers are innocents
and supported by all right-thinking Nugents. He just refuses to accept that
all car-drivers are part of the problem.


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Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
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Old August 9th 20, 02:16 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
JNugent[_12_]
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Default Nick Freeman appears on Good Morning Britain calling for"registered tabards" for cyclists

On 09/08/2020 13:08, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 09:28:03 GMT, TMS320 wrote:

On 07/08/2020 17:12, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
Freeman, saying: "The reality is that 99.3% of pedestrians who die on
our roads are involved in a collision with a motor vehicle.


Ah, but drivers don't mean to do it, and have a perfect sense of
appropriate speed together with fast reactions at sounding the horn so
it doesn't count. Whereas cyclists come from nowhere like bats out of
hell and scream and shout, therefore they are evil.


And they might be committing an illegality! Thus car drivers are innocents
and supported by all right-thinking Nugents. He just refuses to accept that
all car-drivers are part of the problem.


What does any of that irrelevance have to do with the fact that cyclists
don't want the Road Traffic Act to apply to them?
 




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