That's put paid to that then,

[glenn2926]

1km here for exercise so wouldn’t be happening here.

I don’t think 1km really counts as exercise.

 

[spitfire]

I don’t think 1km really counts as exercise.

It does here lol But you could go around the perimeter of the 1km radius .

 

[gus-lopez]

I don’t think 1km really counts as exercise.

It is a maximum from your house of 1km so you can go backwards & forwards 100 x if you wish

 

[spitfire]

It is a maximum from your house of 1km so you can go backwards & forwards 100 x if you wish

But you have to do it in 1 hour lol

 

[Captain Yoghurtpot]

From the gov website:

You should avoid all non-essential travel by private or public transport.

Essential travel includes, but is not limited to

• essential shopping
• travelling to work where your workplace is open or you cannot work from home
• travelling to education and for caring responsibilities
• hospital GP and other medical appointments or visits where you have had an accident or are concerned about your health.

If you need to travel we encourage you to reduce the number of journeys you make, walk or cycle where possible, or to plan ahead and avoid busy times and routes on public transport. This will allow you to practise social distancing while you travel.

Overnight stays and holidays away from primary residences will not be allowed- including holidays in the UK and abroad. This includes staying in a second home, if you own one, or staying with anyone you do not live with or are in a support bubble with.

But you can stay away overnight in a hotel IF it is for work purposes, apparantley and you can travel wherever permitted again, for work!

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[TheBig1]

Well I can see the New Forest from here and can tell you that the rangers and the police were very hot on moving people on in the last lockdown. Any carparks with barriers locked and regular patrols

 

[Minxy]

But you have to do it in 1 hour lol

gus-lopez is also known as his alter ego Speedy Gonzalez!

 

[Lusky]

If you park up at home, it can still be fun to have a few days away from home, in the Motorhome, on your driveway. Not quite the same, but better than nothing. It also is a good way to make sure everything is working

Yep, that’s what I’ll be doing on and off the next few weeks. It won’t replace my planned tour of the south west coast, but with the screens down I can be anywhere !

 

[filopastry]

We are in Mortagne sur Gironde and the gendarmes are certainly mooching about here, French being French they use the small back roads to try to avoid the gendarmes, funny really as this assumes the Gendarmes are not aware of the little back roads. You wanna bet

 

[Keep Right On]

Why do so many people want to put their own interpretation on the rules/advice to justify 'just one' non essential trip? If we all did that we might as well not have a lockdown at all. And some would be ok with that I'm sure.

It's not forever. It will pass. Be patient and if you're lucky i.e. not dead, you'll be able to travel again soon.

It was a straight question - if the law says No then that's fine by me. To put it into context, the parking place in the Forest is half an hour from home and it would be a half day trip to get some fresh air. Can't overnight there because all of the camp sites are closed until next April anyway and there's a time limit of dusk for parking elsewhere.
Mrs Keep Right On is in the vulnerable category and with mobility problems, can't walk far anyway or cycle anywhere and so the green, isolated areas of the Forest have a lot of appeal.
I do believe it would be "legal" but guess the risk assessor in me asks what would happen if there was a road accident or a breakdown which then involved other parties to get us or the Moho home - there, I think I have answered my own question

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[Minxy]

It was a straight question - if the law says No then that's fine by me. To put it into context, the parking place in the Forest is half an hour from home and it would be a half day trip to get some fresh air. Can't overnight there because all of the camp sites are closed until next April anyway and there's a time limit of dusk for parking elsewhere.
Mrs Keep Right On is in the vulnerable category and with mobility problems, can't walk far anyway or cycle anywhere and so the green, isolated areas of the Forest have a lot of appeal.
I do believe it would be "legal" but guess the risk assessor in me asks what would happen if there was a road accident or a breakdown which then involved other parties to get us or the Moho home - there, I think I have answered my own question

This is exactly the point I made the first time round when restrictions were put in place about where to exercise and how far to travel to do so especially in relation to cyclists who are in a very high risk category for injury, both on and off-road.

 

[2x2camper]

This is exactly the point I made the first time round when restrictions were put in place about where to exercise and how far to travel to do so especially in relation to cyclists who are in a very high risk category for injury, both on and off-road.

Why do you think cyclists high risk?

 

[Minxy]

Why do you think cyclists high risk?

Because many a time they share the road with idiots or go off on trails where there is a higher risk of coming off but more especially those who think that doing 20 miles or more in one go is allowed ... the longer you're out and the further go the greater the risk, to put this in perspective if a cyclist travels at 20 miles per hour on a good run out that would equate to a car or MH being taken up to 70 miles to have a bit of exercise elsewhere which we would say is selfish.

 

[Coolcats]

Just booked two nights out so will be back on Wednesday evening....Happy days then any thing else will have to be on the drive and if feeling miserable we can go out to it, have a meal watch a Movie so its not all bad

 

[2x2camper]

Because many a time they share the road with idiots or go off on trails where there is a higher risk of coming off but more especially those who think that doing 20 miles or more in one go is allowed ... the longer you're out and the further go the greater the risk, to put this in perspective if a cyclist travels at 20 miles per hour on a good run out that would equate to a car or MH being taken up to 70 miles to have a bit of exercise elsewhere which we would say is selfish.

So cyclists shouldn't cycle because the drivers are idiots. That's a good reason to ban drivers and therefore cars rather than cyclists.

Very few cyclists come off there bike just as there are very few rtc's with vehicles each day compared to the number on the road. Or could you point me to the evidence to show i am wrong.

Seems to me you just don't like cyclists enjoying themselves

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[2x2camper]

Because many a time they share the road with idiots or go off on trails where there is a higher risk of coming off but more especially those who think that doing 20 miles or more in one go is allowed ... the longer you're out and the further go the greater the risk, to put this in perspective if a cyclist travels at 20 miles per hour on a good run out that would equate to a car or MH being taken up to 70 miles to have a bit of exercise elsewhere which we would say is selfish.

Also so how are should you be allowed to walk.

 

[Coolcats]

I read an interesting report which was said to be based on ROSPA statistics that more Cyclists drown than Canoeists

 

[spitfire]

So cyclists shouldn't cycle because the drivers are idiots. That's a good reason to ban drivers and therefore cars rather than cyclists.

Very few cyclists come off there bike just as there are very few rtc's with vehicles each day compared to the number on the road. Or could you point me to the evidence to show i am wrong.

Seems to me you just don't like cyclists enjoying themselves

Last time here they were banned . Cyclists that is but not sure this time .

 

[Minxy]

So cyclists shouldn't cycle because the drivers are idiots. That's a good reason to ban drivers and therefore cars rather than cyclists.

Very few cyclists come off there bike just as there are very few rtc's with vehicles each day compared to the number on the road. Or could you point me to the evidence to show i am wrong.

Seems to me you just don't like cyclists enjoying themselves

Also so how are should you be allowed to walk.

I'm not against cyclists as such, I was just using them as an example of what I mean, it's the same for any others who do more than is sensible and thus increase the risk to themselves and others who may have to come and scrape them up from the road etc, same for those going off walking into the fells, mountains etc thinking it's okay and then having to be rescued.

There's nothing to stop people exercising in their own area within say 5 miles max but some just seem to want to continue on as they did previously without any regard for the consequences for anyone else if they need assistance.

 

[2x2camper]

I'm not against cyclists as such, I was just using them as an example of what I mean, it's the same for any others who do more than is sensible and thus increase the risk to themselves and others who may have to come and scrape them up from the road etc, same for those going off walking into the fells, mountains etc thinking it's okay and then having to be rescued.

There's nothing to stop people exercising in their own area within say 5 miles max but some just seem to want to continue on as they did previously without any regard for the consequences for anyone else if they need assistance.

Last time it was great with most of the cars off the road.
Families walking and cycling along the rodds. Made the countryside even better

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[Marty Gilly and Pup]

So cyclists shouldn't cycle because the drivers are idiots. That's a good reason to ban drivers and therefore cars rather than cyclists.

Very few cyclists come off there bike just as there are very few rtc's with vehicles each day compared to the number on the road. Or could you point me to the evidence to show i am wrong.

Seems to me you just don't like cyclists enjoying themselves

From my own perspective I think driving standards have fallen somewhat of late - perhaps I’m just slowly becoming an old git! However, I’ve also observed some pretty appalling and dangerous cycling over the last couple of years. This doesn’t usually manifest itself in children or young people going to their friends, but normally by young or middle aged Froome wannabes who make up their own rules. Less than 50% stop at traffic lights, they descend our village hill (20mph with pinch points) at above 40mph, waving and cursing at drivers and anyone else who gets in the way of their Olympic preparations.
I suspect most are safe and competent vehicle drivers when not on bicycles. I absolutely support cycling and agree more of us should be doing it but many cause greater danger to themselves than they need to. Cycle tracks are just that and can be raced on. Roads for all users have rules which we fail to observe at everyone’s peril.

 

[gus-lopez]

Seems to me you just don't like cyclists enjoying themselves

All exercising should be wearing masks. Same here .Ridiculous situation when you have people walking having to wear a mask yet the person "exercising" ,hawking up everywher, blowing like a whale over everyone doesn't have to? Very stupid reasoning.

Last time it was great with most of the cars off the road.
Families walking and cycling along the rodds. Made the countryside even better

They shoud try it next time without any financial assistance. See how they like 'enjoying' themselves then ?

 

[2x2camper]

From my own perspective I think driving standards have fallen somewhat of late - perhaps I’m just slowly becoming an old git! However, I’ve also observed some pretty appalling and dangerous cycling over the last couple of years. This doesn’t usually manifest itself in children or young people going to their friends, but normally by young or middle aged Froome wannabes who make up their own rules. Less than 50% stop at traffic lights, they descend our village hill (20mph with pinch points) at above 40mph, waving and cursing at drivers and anyone else who gets in the way of their Olympic preparations.
I suspect most are safe and competent vehicle drivers when not on bicycles. I absolutely support cycling and agree more of us should be doing it but many cause greater danger to themselves than they need to. Cycle tracks are just that and can be raced on. Roads for all users have rules which we fail to observe at everyone’s peril.

Strange how we all have our own prejudices.

Have you been on a bike at 40mph its frightening hardly anyone can do it. At 30 I chicken out as I think of the losses of skin if I ever come off. Most people over estimate how fast cyclists are travelling yet think nothing of the speed cars go.

I hardly see any cyclists go through red lights, yet see it from car drivers everyday.

 

[TheBig1]

I'm not against cyclists as such, I was just using them as an example of what I mean, it's the same for any others who do more than is sensible and thus increase the risk to themselves and others who may have to come and scrape them up from the road etc, same for those going off walking into the fells, mountains etc thinking it's okay and then having to be rescued.

There's nothing to stop people exercising in their own area within say 5 miles max but some just seem to want to continue on as they did previously without any regard for the consequences for anyone else if they need assistance.

Simon Cowell is a good example of somebody pratting about on a bike getting hurt. It happens, such is life

 

[2x2camper]

They shoud try it next time without any financial assistance. See how they like 'enjoying' themselves then ?

What do you mean?

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[Marty Gilly and Pup]

Strange how we all have our own prejudices.

Have you been on a bike at 40mph its frightening hardly anyone can do it. At 30 I chicken out as I think of the losses of skin if I ever come off. Most people over estimate how fast cyclists are travelling yet think nothing of the speed cars go.

I hardly see any cyclists go through red lights, yet see it from car drivers everyday.

Not sure about cycling but I’ve been on skis quicker than that and it’s scary for me! As for the cyclists, I can’t catch some of them after the speed limit area but I’ve clocked a few I’ve followed at close to 50mph on the mile long drop to the next village. It’s a site for mobile speed cameras at 30mph lower down and they are far in excess of that for sure. No idea what happens if they can or do trip the radar thing.

 

[2x2camper]

Not sure about cycling but I’ve been on skis quicker than that and it’s scary for me! As for the cyclists, I can’t catch some of them after the speed limit area but I’ve clocked a few I’ve followed at close to 50mph on the mile long drop to the next village. It’s a site for mobile speed cameras at 30mph lower down and they are far in excess of that for sure. No idea what happens if they can or do trip the radar thing.

Nothing as the limits, except in very few instances, do not apply to cycles.

 

[glenn2926]

Because many a time they share the road with idiots or go off on trails where there is a higher risk of coming off but more especially those who think that doing 20 miles or more in one go is allowed ... the longer you're out and the further go the greater the risk, to put this in perspective if a cyclist travels at 20 miles per hour on a good run out that would equate to a car or MH being taken up to 70 miles to have a bit of exercise elsewhere which we would say is selfish.

20 miles on a bicycle isn’t very far at all. When I rode a bit we usually rode between 70 and 100 miles on each ride. I tend to walk around 15 to 20 miles on my walks. Not everyone is unfit. Some of us realise that being as fit as we can be gives us a better chance of surviving Covid if we catch it.

 

[filopastry]

gus-lopez Here at the seafronts there are signs to advise twice the distance for those riding a bike or jogging. How each country in the European dis-union organise themselves. Funny really

 

[John and Jo]

I read an interesting report which was said to be based on ROSPA statistics that more Cyclists drown than Canoeists

That's because bicycles don't float.

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