This here kid on a bike twitter stooshie.

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How far do I have to go down the thread to find out what the police said? I got bored reading all the usual shit from potential killers driving cars....

Edit: clicked a different bit of the link and it brought up the police bit! I don't really know how twitter works.....

How far do I have to go down the thread to find out what the police said?

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The moronic comments are spoiling my day a little bit.

I'm reading that reg as LD10KPU, correct?

If so that's registered to a silver ford mondeo. And that, is a blue ford focus...

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It's the usual fundamental disconnect between the statement:

'Children that young shouldn't be on the roads! It's not safe!'

and the obvious answer to the follow up question

'So why are the roads so unsafe for our children?'

The number of people saying it's a busy road when clearly it's a quiet, traffic-calmed residential street. And the idea that you shouldn't be teaching your kid to ride in traffic at 5. By seven or eight they should be able to head off by themselves on their bikes with their mates. When should you start teaching them if you want them to ride safely at seven?

I’m reading that reg as LD10KPU, correct?

LO10KPU - blue focus

LO10KPU – blue focus

Ah, cheers. 👍

Still, regardless of whether the kid should have been on the road, the driver stopping and doing the right thing would have cost them about 10 seconds of time.

Bizarre. The driver didn't really do anything wrong. Maybe he could of paused, but he was going slow and wasn't close to the kid.

The police's twitter response is pretty pathetic as well.

I personally don't think riding provocatively like that with a kid of that age is the right thing to do - well within the law, but silly.

I would be next to him, making sure to shelter him from the traffic and ensure that I was a nice big high indication of a smaller road user next to me.

riding provocatively

What now?

Joe - the driver was far too close to the child breaking two provisions of the highway code in doing so

Remember its a wide angle lens

Why was the adult following not further out tho to ensure the driver did not squeeze thru

Provocative riding? If anything the adult was too timid. I would have been a metre further right without kids to make it clear there was no room for the car. You should be far enough from the parked car on the left that if they open the door it does not hit you.

I personally don’t think riding provocatively like that with a kid of that age is the right thing to do

Nice victim blaming there.

Still, regardless of whether the kid should have been on the road, the driver stopping and doing the right thing would have cost them about 10 seconds of time.

To be honest, likely wouldn't have cost them any time as they would just have joined a queue 10 seconds later and spent 10 secs less in the queue, but you know, "Rarrrr making progress, I'm king of the road in my ford focus etc etc"...

Is provocative riding like, when I wear a really short skirt or something? Defo asking for “it” then

lolz@ mashr

The police response is great. Brought a wee smile to my face 🙂

If anything the adult was too timid. I would have been a metre further right without kids to make it clear there was no room for the car.

Well here I am agreeing with teej for a change

If that was my child I'd have been behind and to the right - regardless of if the car was coming or not. It's where I ride so folks coming from behind give the little one room and if anyone is taken out by a mistake it's me....not Jnr.

I guess the question is What age is suitable for riding on the road then ? I mean when I was 6 I was riding from Arbroath to friockheim with my old man.....

Ive been told I shouldn't even have my little.one on the bike seat on the road from my house to the village - they promptly got shut down.

If you feel the roads too dangerous as a car driver for cyclists then you are the problem not the cyclist.

I know where they are coming from it requires confident defensive riding to use our roads as a cyclist these days noticibly worse over the last 20 years I've been doing it. But if we stop doing it its a self fulfilling prophecy that people don't do it there's no demand ......then you get no more facilities.....

Bizarre. The driver didn’t really do anything wrong.

So if you were driving towards a 5 year old on a parked up street you'd give them a couple of feet room and press on? Because the second or two it would have cost you was just too much effort?

then you get no more facilities

That road in the video IS cycling facilities.

then you get no more facilities

That road in the video IS cycling facilities.

Well that's great if all your journeys are cyclaable.

I'm talking facility's like secure bike parking at train/bus stations.....

Hell space to take your bike on the train.

Employers with changing and washing facilities...

That sort of thing rather than places to ride your bike.

All the extra blockers than make folk jump in the car rather than take bikes.

Ok, fair point.

Police response is brilliant, especially this

Didn’t know? If you have any form of driving licence - you damn well should

Don't see anything wrong with where the child was riding. That's exsctly where I taught my children to ride, don't hide in at the side, make sure you are seen

Almost started a thread about how young is too young following this myself.

The Teapot family school run is me, my 6 year old and 3&1/2 year old. We do a mix of road and pavement, but when we're on the road (all 20mph residential roads) I am riding on their outside and the youngest follows the oldest who is better at paying attention. Drivers almost universally give us lots of space and time. Mostly I worry about them getting doored when we get near to the school.

If that was my child I’d have been behind and to the right –

Me too.

I'd imagine I'm not alone in seeing this thread as a great lens into why people get so het up about twitter toxicity. It's the first time I've opened a thread about something I have real interest in and it's been a stressful and unpleasant experience.

HTF do you cope with being a long term user of twitter?
A huge proportion of people on it seem to be vile scummers.

A huge proportion of people on it seem to be vile scummers.

They are, but you're not obliged to read everything, and you can follow people who you've found to be interesting or useful. Or, indeed, entertaining.

Definitely read the police bit, not the relies from various fools (Sajid Javid included).

HTF do you cope with being a long term user of twitter?

I don't.

I have an account so I can read stuff people send me but I never open it to consume. Every topic is like the comments section of the daily mail.

Cars are shit.

Just imagine if some of the negative commentators encountered this....

https://twitter.com/BikeBusShaw/status/1591011844239785985?t=ZNr90p7KIPntuZGM4qWQ_w&s=19

HTF do you cope with being a long term user of twitter?

Doesn't wind me up. I follow tofu-eating wokerati so most of what I read there accords to my world view. On this story I saw lots of people defending the biking father and child, and didn't scroll down far into the complaints.

I like the idea that Durham police have roads and armed response teams in the same unit. Would be nice if they could trade responsibilities occasionally. 😁

Reading that twitter thread was an eye opener for me. What a load of vile, incorrect, entitled car drivers.

As children in the 60's and 70's, we rode almost everywhere on our bikes, it wasn't that safe but it's worse in this day and age with more traffic on the roads but children have every right to ride their bicycles on the road.

More children should be riding their bikes and parents/schools should be encouraging this, it needs to become normal for drivers to see this happening on the road.

Reading that twitter thread was an eye opener for me. What a load of vile, incorrect, entitled [s]car drivers[/s] Twitter users

Ftfy.

Let's be honest, for every 'bad' attitude or bad driver, there's many more respectful and careful ones.

I vote for more tanks on the road. Let's see how these clowns would like 74 tonnes doing a close pass or tailgating.