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Sat May 16, 2020 5:52 pm
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I'm reading stuff from local police saying that whatever the advice being circulated by MCN et.al. we still shouldn't be riding our bikes..... The whole thing is a nightmare open to personal interpretation and opinion. |
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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #19 Well assuming that MCN are telling the truth about getting their advice direct from Downing Street, the police need to do one. In addition - see my previous post at https://www.r1200rsforum.com/t2456f12-Where-will-your-first-ride-be-after-this-4.html#msg26611 - the written advice is pretty unequivocal anyway. If I ever manage to get my RS back on the road I reckon I'll be keeping a printout of a copy of the relevant page in my back pocket!
KC100->CB100N->CB250RS--------->DL650AL2->R1200RS
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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #19 they can say what they like and they are entitled to an opinion but they can only enforce the law. As long as you can get home the same day, you can travel anywhere in England. They can only intervene if you are in a group of 3 or more. They cannot enforce the 2m distancing as it is advisory not mandatory. The difficulty is that many people will want to use their new freedom to travel and they will all descend on garden centres, farm shops, beaches, lakes and mountains. On my journey today, there were loads of cars parked in the usual places near the Malverns, Eastnor Castle etc. You then end up with conflict between the local people and the visitors, which then becomes a police matter. The best way to enjoy motorcycling now is just to do a non-stop loop from home. 50-100 miles so you don't need a drink or piss. For my own health reasons, I have no wish to meet anyone else so I will forego the ice cream at Bibury etc. |
Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #19 technically, you are not allowed to ride per se, you are allowed to travel ( ride) unlimited distance to exercise, or to go shopping for food. So its not a free for all. We rode to a forest area to walk as exercise
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Zitat von andygriff im Beitrag #22Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #19 define exercise as the government has not provided a definitive list cycling & motorcycling are recognised as sports in certain contexts. Riding a bicycle for leisure is considered exercise. By extension, any sporting activity done for leisure should be considered exercise. Ergo, riding a motorcycle is exercise. I know my muscles ache and I feel physically tired after a ride. I know, like other forms of exercise, I feel better and have a spike of endorphins during and after a ride. You can go round & round with arguments like this but my advice is to get Occam's Razor out and simply the rule: you are allowed to travel in England as far as you want by any means as long as you return home the same day. The only thing police can enforce is to split up any assembly of 3 or more people who do not live in the same home. Anything else is advisory, including the 2m rule. |
Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #18Zitat von Gunns10 im Beitrag #17 Sorry, don't know if the Strood was up. Tide was out if that helps ! |
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Zitat von Gunns10 im Beitrag #26Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #18Zitat von Gunns10 im Beitrag #17 Then the Strood (bit of road that goes to the island) wasn't over  |
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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #27Zitat von Gunns10 im Beitrag #26Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #18Zitat von Gunns10 im Beitrag #17  could have been a bad exoerience otherwise..... |
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Well it was good to get out for my first ride since lock-down today. I just managed a short ride (1 hour or so) early morning whilst there was no traffic in my part of Staffordshire. It was so thrilling to feel the taught power and agility of the bike again.....and to enjoy the countryside, it feels like a time warp to be suddenly experiencing all the colours and smells of late spring. I really took the ride easy, partly to get my riding legs back and partly to be a responsible citizen. |
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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #19 Interestingly I've just read this from Thames Valley Police, posted today on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thamesvp/posts/10157670008933655. It includes the line "Although some of the Government guidance has changed this week, you still must only travel for essential reasons, such as for work or exercise", which is simply not true despite their numerous requotes of the link to the new guidelines I posted earlier. There are hundreds of follow-up comments to the post, which are divided between non-motorcyclists banging on about bad behaviour by bikers that they've recently witnessed (and probably fair enough), and bikers who are indignantly pointing out to the police that they are providing incorrect information which isn't even backed up by the link they provided.
KC100->CB100N->CB250RS--------->DL650AL2->R1200RS
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