Options- take it off, now I’m caring me £400 helmet, getting bashed by plebs, unable to pick things up.

- leave it on your bike, yes soon be someone else’s.
- put it in your basket, yes i do and only buy half of what i need, tesco’s loss (and mine).
- go some where else, worth a though.

I think we should sod the rules and have an arguement EVERY time, they’ll soon get pissed off.

The latest i heard was that filling with petrol, the fumes given off can sometimes find there way into ones helmet, particularly if one is astride the bike at the time [perhaps more likely to ride off after filling] so they are generally advising riders to remove helmets for safety sake. Tho the petrol suppliers have made a statement that there is no problem as they can see supporting the retailer to come to that conclusion.

There will always be possible senarios if the dot is missing or perhaps the placing of the dot on the helmet may help.

The tax disc idea was as far, as I am aware, a back up to the dot.

So worse case no tax disc and the dot is missing.

Re the warning danger onthe sticker of the danger of removing a helmet, personally I do not think that this should on the helmet.

I have completed a First Aid For Riders course http://www.firstaodforriders.org which included helmet removal.

My own personal opinion is if I am faced with two casualties, when doing an initial assesment for response and I see a sticker saying “Do Not Remove Helmet” I will go to the other casualty. first.

Some riders do not display their tax discs anymore for fear of having them stolen, so thats another problem.

Quite right warning of the danger of removing a crash helmet. It should only be done by the emergency services when they arrive, unless of course the casualty is not breathing and extending the head and neck doesnt work. under those circumstance, no matter what other injury to the neck may be suspected. rescucitation must be given and the helmet removed for that purpose, unless it a flip front.

However providing that we are considered only 1 % or all traffic in terms of volume absolutely nothing will be done about it.

Its that same old arguement re say passenger airlines, the manufacturers and operators know that there is a specific problem but the cost of putting right the problem is far to expensive when considered against the cost of insurance payout for death or serious injury.

In the meantime we have to suffer.

There maybe hope,however, in that as cycling is becoming the be all and end all of the green side of politics and is receiving much more government support and finance [by licking rather than biting,] then maybe, just maybe we can support them, afterall we are cousins of a sort, and by supporting them maybe they can complain.!!!!!!!

[ does anyone know of a cyclist that is in the lobbying business?]

You can now download and respond to the consultation.

The Department of the Environment is seeking your views, comments and ideas on proposed amendments to driver licencing fees, to enable an informed decision to be taken before the relevant legislation is drafted. In particular, the Department would welcome comments as to whether:

• the proposals are considered reasonable and effective with regard to their purpose;
• they are relevant to Northern Ireland; and
• there are any potential problems associated with the proposals

You can download the document and find out more about this consultation, including how to respond, from the Department of the Environment’s website at the following link.

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Deadline for response – 8 July 2012

15th May 2012

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Its a problem all over the mainland. Whilst many complain about cow shit its basically the agri farms that are worse.

at least with cow muck u can expect it every day and at regular times all the year round and it generally doesnt require or involve any farm vehicles.

With agri farming crops they have every vehicle under the sun out and with trailers, bloody great big ones with all sorts of dangerous spikes and disk blades, enough to cut up motorcyclists into several pieces, i know of one that was decapitated by such a blade. also they are out as early in the year as possible to prepare land and cover it with shit [ manure] and then seed it and then de weed and spray it and then reap it later on in the summer and they work round the clock even into night time with tractors going from field to field.

If that isnt all they just drop whatever is on their wheels onto the tarmac and put out a poor hand written notice warning of mud, one which inevitably falls over or is washed away by the next downpoor.

When complained about the police or local authorities do shit all about it, lets face it as far as they are concerned we deserve all the pain ,suffering and death we can get. one less KSI statistic.for the future.

It appears that the police did suffer by what the farmer did not do and so got taken to court.

Lets hope more are prosecuted for their outright beligerance.

Nice one.

As a footnote… beware when the crops are being harvested JULY/AUG/SEPT. havesting creats a lot of fine dust and broken stems and chaff to fall on the road, This is lethal as it creats a barrier between the road tarmack and your tyres. Its very much like ice. Also if not protecting the eyes it can blind you when blown by the wind.

So if any farm nearby is harvesting be very, very carefull it can put u off the road and into hospital.

You have been warned.

Put it in the Highway Code

Put it on your local website.

put it everywhere.

Its not a very well known fact and persons have come to grief and the police have put it down to rider error.

please make sure all your friends know about it.

On the lighter side, i was down a country lane the other day and a farmer had put up a notice saying.’BULLS BEWARE…..KEEP OUT. Now i never new that bulls could read, did u.!!!!!!

Off course there will be the oportunity to respond to these proposals in the forth coming published consultation.