Re: Bicycle race training technique

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 2/13/2025 7:00 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

 
Time Trials no the road isn’t closed they have code names harking back to
it being illegal, and be large dual carriageways, depending on the location
might be held earlier in the day, though not always.

 
Some here might not know about the days when time trialing was illegal
in the UK. Roger might want to give a quick summary of the situation and
the work-arounds.

The work around was to ride early and to use codes which exist to this day,
it goes back to I’d guess 1920/30’s ha way off 1890-1960 ish was never
actually illegal but of unsure legal position, at least at the time.

Was at the era when motordom was growing and the push to well push other
forms of transportation out, ie fear that a cycleway would be required to
use plus pedestrians attempted to be controlled and so on.

 
Today in the U.S. some advocates have pointed out a potential
disadvantage of having a bicycle legally defined as a vehicle: It may
make bicyclists in technical violation of certain anti-racing laws - for
example, when a cyclist and a buddy sprint for the next telephone pole.
In at least some states, advocacy organizations closely monitor proposed
traffic laws to ensure that certain ones apply only to _motor_ vehicles.
 

At least in uk bike isn’t a motor vehicle and while it should obey some
laws such as traffic signals, speed limits don’t apply and so on, unlikely
to hit them mostly to be honest.

Roger Merriman