Grounded!

[O.C.]

If it doesn't fall into the essential journey category, as tempting as it is and I've been trying to think of reasons I could use to justify a recreational ride myself, don't do it.

Agreed, I don't intend to Steve, we live in a very rural location and self isolating pretty much reflects any other day TBH

Anyway it's only in the last few days that the weather here has been anything like good enough to make me want to ride out .... brrrrrr             

[Lonewolf]

Yes I have to agree, so far as far as I am concerned, circumstances haven't really differed from any other normal day.

I'm still walking the dogs on The Moors which is good, its good for the soul and mind and the exercise is beneficial too.

[pross]

I am one of the ones showing Coronavirus symptoms.
Isolated for 7 days to be reviewed weekly tried to get the bike in the flat but the stairs are a bit tight for the GTR 

[PRD]

I am one of the ones showing Coronavirus symptoms.
Isolated for 7 days to be reviewed weekly tried to get the bike in the flat but the stairs are a bit tight for the GTR 

Get well soon.

[pross]

Get well soon.

Thanks PRD hope you and your good lady are well 👍

[O.C.]

I am one of the ones showing Coronavirus symptoms.
Isolated for 7 days to be reviewed weekly tried to get the bike in the flat but the stairs are a bit tight for the GTR 

Hope that you are feeling better real soon     

I have been concerned as I do have underlying health issues, so I'm 'watching my step'

[pross]

Hope that you are feeling better real soon     

I have been concerned as I do have underlying health issues, so I'm 'watching my step'

Thanks .
Same here  O.C. I am diabetic and have a lung problem at the moment so that is why I have to check again in seven days time  they did tell me  the Coronavirus can clear but the cough can remain for quite a few weeks so we will plod along

[patrick]

It's still not clear if it is okay to take a recreational ride out,   common sense tells me that it isn't as in the event of a breakdown (unlikely) or an accident then third parties would be involved          

Nothing stopping recreational ride, until police start stopping you.. which they are.. and doing you for un-necessary journey, or a small mishap takes you to a virus filled hospital :-(

[PRD]

I'm noticing a vast increase in cyclists since lockdown. Surely they must be at risk as well.

[pross]

I'm noticing a vast increase in cyclists since lockdown. Surely they must be at risk as well.

They are probably getting away with it as a daily exercise like walking the dog 👍.
As long as not a group of them . I don't think a motorcycle 🏍 ride would be classed as that

[Lonewolf]

Tony, I hope it's just a bug you have and not the virus, try and stay optimistic. Have you been working during the last couple of weeks, if so are any work colleagues you've been in contact with displaying similar symptoms?

[BigAlan]

I need to visit my mother who is 10 miles away, 86 years old and registered disabled, she wants yogurt and bananas, my sister has got her sorted with the normal stuff but she insists she needs these items.

So it's a bike ride to her this morning as she can have what the yogurt the grandkids would have eaten had they been round. 

The long way of course.

[O.C.]

Covid-19 Virus is NOT an air born virus read this..... unashamedly stolen from another forum

Airborne refers to any virus or chemicals ability to live outside the body or "in the air". Thankfully, Covid-19 is not airbourne in that it cannot survive outside of a host very long and certainly does not hang around in the air.
It does live for a short while on surfaces which is why cleaning surfaces and hands, etc... is so important.

When we talk or breathe, we naturally release tiny amounts of saliva into the air which can carry the virus, if we're infected. Coughing and sneezing is the most dangerous because that has the same affect but in greater amounts and flung further. So although the 2 meter thing is about touching, it's also to protect you while talking to someone. It's worth remembering 2 meters is the MINIMUM recommended distance.
I hate to say it, but when stood a normally social distance away from each other having a conversation face to face. You are literally spitting over each other on a microscopic level. Sneezes and coughs compound that effect with a stronger concentration of fluid and greater ferocity.

Because this is first and foremost a biking forum, I will say that Lockdown rules aside. Ride or don't ride really doesn't make a difference. Presuming you're riding from your own house, dressed in full protective gear, including you own helmet. If you just leave, ride around in a circle (1 mile or 100 miles doesn't matter). While your self contained you're not spreading or contracting the virus.
The problem is when you stop, refuel, pick up the virus from touching the pump / door handle or from the attendant.
You then ride on to a cafe and meet others from the V forum, share some witty banter over a full English, sitting next to or opposite each other... that's where the problem comes in.
If you're infected, you've not only passed it to your fellow V forum buddy but to the nice cafe lady who served you grub. The local man who came over to chat to you about your bikes. Anyone else in the cafe after you touched the toilet door handle.
Those people are then going to unsuspectingly go home and infect their loved ones. All of a sudden that quiet sleepy village has been affected by the viurs, not previously introduced to their community, just because you wanted to go for a ride!

That's where riding becomes the irresponsible thing to do.  :192:

[PRD]

I'm using my bike to go shopping when I need it.

[Lonewolf]

I see even old Boris is now positive! I wonder if he caught it off his Dad, who only last week was insisting on Radio 2 to Jeremy Vine that he would still be visiting his local boozer.