Riding bike on pavement

[abstibus]

Visiting someone who lives on a one-way road. We' were sitting in the garden in the sun - honest - and I couldn't help but notice how many people were riding bikes on the pavement - some in the wrong direction.
Is it legal in UK to ride a bike on the pavement?i I checked a few websites but got conflicting answers.
Just in passing, I wish all bikes were fitted with bells/buzzers that ring automatically every so often. I walk my dog on the prom and cyclists whizz silently out of nowhere along and beyond the cycle lane.

[HowardKennitby]

no it isn't

[tenrec]

I so agree with you anne. If only a biker would ring their bell before they get right up behind you.

[chaptazbru]

It's not legal to ride a bike on the pavement, but nobody does anything about it. I won't move out of the way for a bike and often mutter as they ride past !

[RATTER15]

No it is not legal unless their is a designated lane on the pavement.

[bookbinder]

According to the Highway Code, Rule 64 says:
You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement. [not my caps.]
It then goes on to refer to which laws cover this.
http://www.direct.gov...highwaycode/dg_069837

[AliceTickband]

and I wish all cyclists were forced to wear helmets, pay road/path tax,have their cycles mot'd and have insurance...........hey ho!

[Baldric]

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1138327.html

[Old_Geezer]

It is not legal. But society has such fallen standards these days many folk think they can do what they like and "yah boo sucks" to anyone else. I've even had folk ring there cycle bell or yell at me to get out of their way when they cycle on the pedestrian's pavement. If they really believed I'd obey that then they had another think coming. The rules I was taught seem to be for naught these days due to lax parenting I suspect. You see it in all sorts of situations. An attitude of, "I do what I like and you dare try to stop me".

[paddywak]

Last year in Arnold a guy was ASBO'd and tagged for persistently riding his bike on the pavement.

[chaptazbru]

Good !

[Canary42]

An ASBO - my word, I bet that frightened him !

[bibblebub]

It really irritates me, particularly on a local road where there are wide cycle lanes on both sides of the road and yet there are still more than a few on the pavement, even with the traffic on their side of the road going in the same direction so that they don't have to spend all of 5 seconds crossing the road. When they pass I do sometimes shout at them to use the f***ing cycle lane (the f***ing part is what I feel like saying but can't stop myself being polite)

[Nibble]

We've got a one-way system across the bottom of our road, so cyclists "have" to ride on the pavement if they want to ride against the traffic :-)

[paddywak]

I know it's not much canary, but it is a start. I remember as a kid getting caught by the local copper taking a short cut down a alley that was a no cycling zone, it cost my dad 10 shillings (50p), sounds laughable now but it was a fair bit of money in the fifties, and I got a thick ear as well.