A plea to tractor drivers.

[Renaultman]

Drove towards one in the car last week and rider was that busy giving me wild hand signals that they spooked their own horse before I was anywhere near it.
My passenger (horse rider) laughed at the excitable rider.

We have one like that around us. Lovely docile old horse with a halfwit on its back.

 

[gone]

Actually dying young and suddenly is what saves the health service a fortune. How much have you cost compared to the rest of your family?

So true.
To add to that Cyclists are the 2nd most likely group of road users to be hospitalized with minor and major injuries.
I am a cyclist and not trying to run down cycling, but it is not way to reduce health costs or spending.

 

[Cowabunga]

So true.
To add to that Cyclists are the 2nd most likely group of road users to be hospitalized with minor and major injuries.
I am a cyclist and not trying to run down cycling, but it is not way to reduce health costs or spending.

I bet its cyclists with motors that are in 1st place.

 

[betweenthelines]

Clearly no one on here lives anywhere near a built up area or the complaints would be about users of electric scooters, quingo type things etc. One well publicised case recently of an electric scooter rider killed in an accident with an HGV (electric scooters are illegal on both the highway and the pavement btw) and a recent case of a pensioner being hospitalised after being knocked down by a quingo type machine in a pedestrian precinct. At least horses have some "horse sense"

 

[Derrick Hughes]

So true.
To add to that Cyclists are the 2nd most likely group of road users to be hospitalized with minor and major injuries.
I am a cyclist and not trying to run down cycling, but it is not way to reduce health costs or spending.

You best give your advice to Cardiff NHS then who have been giving out free cycles to improve health
They said the bikes are in profit by by 9 Months

 

[TheTallGuy]

Clearly no one on here lives anywhere near a built up area or the complaints would be about users of electric scooters, quingo type things etc. One well publicised case recently of an electric scooter rider killed in an accident with an HGV (electric scooters are illegal on both the highway and the pavement btw) and a recent case of a pensioner being hospitalised after being knocked down by a quingo type machine in a pedestrian precinct. At least horses have some "horse sense"

Electric mobility scooters are not illegal on pavement or highway in the UK - https://www.gov.uk/mobility-scooters-and-powered-wheelchairs-rules. Two wheel electric scooters, skateboards, segways & hoverboard type are a different matter altogether

 

[Daddy Pig]

Off for Sunday lunch?
Or waiting for a supermarket delivery?
This post demonstrates the value of British grown food
by some of the public.

also demonstrates the total disregard for the law shown by some farmers and contractors

 

[Lazy Sod]

We followed a tractor towing a baler with a flat 8 sledge. At speed, the sledge was swinging back and forth such that even on a straight road wide enough for cars to normally pass each other, it was unsafe for us to overtake him.

The driver would slow down or even stop for cars coming towards him, but not once for us to overtake. He couldn't have looked in his mirrors. We followed him for more than 2 miles.

 

[2wheels]

I bet its cyclists with motors that are in 1st place.

yes duckie, we know you don't like motorbikes but like all the other groups of road users there are numpties and sensible bikers too.

 

[Rowland]

I’ve often get stuck behind both cyclists and horses , i usually have a trailer on the motor so over taking is not quite as easy as they think. I’ll get waved passed but I won’t over take until I can see it’s safe. This seams to pee them off but I’m never in to much of a hurry these day .

 

[Nearly]

I’ve often get stuck behind both cyclists and horses , i usually have a trailer on the motor so over taking is not quite as easy as they think. I’ll get waved passed but I won’t over take until I can see it’s safe. This seams to pee them off but I’m never in to much of a hurry these day .

Yès, they get really annoyed if you wait until you can see the road ahead FOR YOURSELF before you overtake.
Try explaining to plod that you overtook the horse on a blind bend because the rider waved you on.

 

[Bogweevil]

The horse riders certainly don't round here!

To be fair they are helping the public grow good roses.

 

[traineefarmer]

You best give your advice to Cardiff NHS then who have been giving out free cycles to improve health
They said the bikes are in profit by by 9 Months

I should imagine most of them turned a profit after 5 days on ebay.

 

[traineefarmer]

I wholly agree with what others have said about good and bad on all sides, but I must share this story from a couple of years ago..

I was driving the short journey home from the farm down a very rural road when I came across a person laying in the road in riding gear. The lady had been thrown from her horse and was unconscious. (It turned out I knew her as she was the mother of one of my daughter's friends, but she was so badly knocked about I didn't recognise her!) Dialled 999 and followed their advice and waited for paramedics, etc. Some other neighbours had come along and the emergency services weren't far behind. The police also turned up and I was relaying what had happened to them when another pair of horses and riders approached.

Rather than turn around or wait they forced the horse up the bank and onto a narrow field margin to pass the scene. The horses were pretty skittish so the lead "lady" shouted down to the medics and officers "You're scaring our horses! Keep still!". The officer I was speaking to replied with something I can't share on this forum before they galloped off.

As with so much in life, the petulant mentality of a few spoil it for the conscientious majority.

 

[glasshouse]

We had a plonker near here who insisted on riding his dark horse wearing dark clothes at dusk. I stopped one day to politely point out his lack of respect for other road users and had an earful in response.

Next time I saw him I made a point of maintaining good progress. And the next.

He now wears hi vis.

Fu ck em

 

[glasshouse]

Morons

 

[glasshouse]

I’ve often get stuck behind both cyclists and horses , i usually have a trailer on the motor so over taking is not quite as easy as they think. I’ll get waved passed but I won’t over take until I can see it’s safe. This seams to pee them off but I’m never in to much of a hurry these day .

Horses just love a rattling ifor williams.

 

[Rowland]

Horses just love a rattling ifor williams.

There’s a road on one of my routes that’s to say the least fu?ked pot holes and very uneven.
Every time I use it I meet some ‘very happy ‘ women on there horses from a local horsey place , now I pull over and let them pass as they won’t fixken move over on to the nice big grass verge . Once past I bounce over the pot holes and the dancing can be seen in my mirror .

 

[Gerbert]

I always slow down for horses, as I do for children but if the horsey people fail to acknowledge me I'll be sure to give a good bit of throttle when I've passed them. While I love to moan I am quite accomodating, but if your horse cannot handle traffic do not go on the road. It's like drunk driving to me, make sure you are fit to use the road without being a hazard to others.

 

[7610 super q]

Too many folks using the roads maybe ? Too many cyclists, too many horses, too many motorbikes,too many cars, too many lorries, too many tractors.....
Too many people in this small island ?
Tin hat on, retreats to air raid shelter....