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Off Topic => General Discussion => Topic started by: patrick on May 06, 2013, 04:21:51 PM

Title: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: patrick on May 06, 2013, 04:21:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0AT4ptBCXpk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0AT4ptBCXpk)
Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: Lonewolf on May 06, 2013, 08:06:09 PM
It looks like a motorcycle and side car to me, not a trike, therefore helmets must be worn.
Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: Richard on May 06, 2013, 09:29:14 PM

Hi

Yes its a Motorbike and side car, so lids must be worn

Info on the law here:
http://www.trikeshop.co.uk/trike_law.htm

Its all down to the definition of a bike
"(3) In this regulation "motor bicycle "means a two wheeled motorcycle, whether or not having a sidecar attached"

Crazy if you ask me but there we are, nearly as daft as the fact I can just hop on a 1400 GTR trike, with no bike experience and off I go with a car licence (now stopped for anyone who take there test after Jan 2013)

:biker3:  Richard

Richard
Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: O.C. on May 06, 2013, 09:40:16 PM
Yep, its a bike with sidecar attached, and as has been pointed out helmets are required unless you wear a turban  :whistling:
Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: Lonewolf on May 07, 2013, 09:54:48 AM
However, I doubt there will be a prosecution, there is a new system in place now and everything is geared towards education rather than prosecution.  This applies to nearly all traffic related offences.
Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: Ros on May 07, 2013, 11:59:34 AM
QuoteYep, its a bike with sidecar attached, and as has been pointed out helmets are required unless you wear a turban 

Or, according to Top Gear, you are a woman in Uganda and are travelling back from the hairdresser, in which case a poly bag will suffice...  :wacko:

Ros

Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: Winston Smith on May 07, 2013, 02:07:25 PM
Bloody hell Patrick, which vault did that come from?

That footage is years old
Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: patrick on May 07, 2013, 05:14:10 PM
I saw a link to it on facebook
Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: Lonewolf on May 07, 2013, 06:07:02 PM
Winston, have you had any feedback on the Pentip system and TOR's from your old traffic buddies?


Our guys say its a bit of a lottery dictated by stats, i.e. how many have been sent on courses or prosecuted in any particular month.
Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: Winston Smith on May 07, 2013, 07:42:24 PM
Have no contact with any of my ex colleagues Steve. 

Not being rude, but that is all my past now and I have really severed the links.

I have found it quite healthy and liberating!
Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: Lonewolf on May 07, 2013, 07:52:20 PM
Chris, fair play to you. Some people live and breath the job, some see it as a means to an end. Work to live, not live to work. I'm in the former category. :yes:
Title: Re: hemelt needed on a trike? any one seen this?
Post by: Winston Smith on May 07, 2013, 07:56:20 PM
I was did live and breathe it but as much as some.  I didn't want to stay in the job either in blues or as a civvie, and as I say - it is healthy!

I have always worked to live, although have always been professional - just not let it rule my life
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