Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

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The idiot on the moped I've been encountering the last few days. Not content with having an illegal L plate 2.5 inches across :eek they also ride at 22 mph in the gutter. That's bad enough but this idiot has a habit of filtering past traffic to the front of the queue at traffic lights. All well and good you say, that's what bike are for. But if you then travel at 22 mph all the traffic you've just overtaken then has to overtake you within 100 yards of the lights FFS.
Not content with that, I was stuck behind a bus and a car trying to get past a pushbike which was using the cycle lane. (since adding in a cycle lane on both sides of the road it's made the space for cars 6 foot narrower which makes it harder to overtake bikes if there's opposing traffic). Bugger me if this prat then undertakes me and the car in front and is contemplating undertaking the bus as well when the bus fortunately managed to get past the bike.

I feel your pain as I get a lot of this kind of thing where I live. unfortunately it's not until they have an accident or gain a few years of road experience they realise what dicks they are being. It doesn't help that a lot of the Police I know don't actually know the full laws on L plate riders as the other day a lad on a moped with L plates had a pillion on the back rode past an officer down the white line and did nothing, so I stopped next to the officer and asked why he did nothing and he didn't know that it is illegal for learner riders to carry pillion passengers  :wall
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I thought learners could carry a pillion passenger if the passenger had a bike licence....has that changed?
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I asked if Learners can carry passengers at the riding school where I got licence from and the head instructor stated that at no point can a rider on L plates carry a passenger, he did go into more detail about it but I can't remember the other stuff and the long and short of it is no they can't carry passengers at all.

also this link explains it in more detail: http://www.visordown.com/features/learne...-motorbike