Cycles on site
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Perhaps when my 8 month grandaughter is old enough to come away with us I'll just cable tie her to a chair & stick an iPad/similar into her hands for the duration ..... that should keep you all happy!
When old enough, I certainly hope you would not let her ride her bike as it is going dark, at speeds well above walking pace, as we observed some very young children doing at Cirencester the other week.
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Perhaps when my 8 month grandaughter is old enough to come away with us I'll just cable tie her to a chair & stick an iPad/similar into her hands for the duration ..... that should keep you all happy!
When old enough, I certainly hope you would not let her ride her bike as it is going dark, at speeds well above walking pace, as we observed some very young children doing at Cirencester the other week.
If only you could put old heads on young shoulders ..... good job then that cars have bright headlights!
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Reading this thread just re-enforces our decision not to go to sites during school holidays. We caravaned with our boys from the ages of 2 and 4 they never took bikes with them neither did we. They were not needed becasue we were always out and about doing something, the boys played on site usually when I was preparing a meal but that wasn't for long. Nowadays it would appear the sites are just huge play grounds and families just dump the kids and leave them to it, or is it the granparents that can't keep up with them
Maybe sites should adopt a NO CYCLING ON SITE rule like we have seen on some european sites.
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Perhaps when my 8 month grandaughter is old enough to come away with us I'll just cable tie her to a chair & stick an iPad/similar into her hands for the duration ..... that should keep you all happy!
When old enough, I certainly hope you would not let her ride her bike as it is going dark, at speeds well above walking pace, as we observed some very young children doing at Cirencester the other week.
If only you could put old heads on young shoulders ..... good job then that cars have bright headlights!
I was more concerned about less nimble pedestrians, they weren't exactly paying a lot of attention to the direction they were traveling
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Perhaps it's because they remember what it's like to have fun.
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Perhaps if the site roads were loose chippings rather than tarmac it would solve two problems at once. There would probably be less furious cycling and cars might travel a litlle more slowly.
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It would appear that most adults on here would like children to be neither seen nor heard. Why not go the whole way and ban either children or moaners from sites.
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My grandchildren spent their holiday yesterday paint balling and practising archery. If the Club were to bring activities like that on to Club sites the bike problem might go away.
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Most adults would probably go away as well, ET.
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The Carnon Down site in Cornwall bans cycling on site (also scooters and skate boards) but they provide a very large playfield for bikes etc and there is nearby cycle path at Devoran. The problem with many CC sites is the lack of play space. One good one
is Brecon which has a lovely big play field, we need more sites like this.
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The Carnon Down site in Cornwall bans cycling on site (also scooters and skate boards) but they provide a very large playfield for bikes etc and there is nearby cycle path at Devoran. The problem with many CC sites is the lack of play space. One good one
is Brecon which has a lovely big play field, we need more sites like this.Write your comments here...There are a few sites that I know of that have playing field but they don't seem to get used very much.
Cirencester Park, Moreton in Marsh and Scarborough West Ayton all have playing fields, maybe others can add to the list.
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Plymouth Sound has a big playfield.
I think most families are off site during the day but children have loads of energy and need play spaces when they return. Riding bikes around many of the CC sites just isn't safe. Hillhead has very steep hills and isn't safe for young cyclists, the big playfield there could be utilised much more.
To be honest, if I had young children we'd be on a CL or rally, the ranks of vans and cars on CC sites would not appeal.
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Nobody wants to see a child hurt, either by being run over by a car, or slamming into the side at circa 10 mph. What also should not be forgotten is apart from the damage to said kids, possibly severe as few seem to wear helmets, is the traumatic affect on the person driving the vehicle. In some cases it could be life changing for both child and driver. Campsite roads are not a play areas and I for one would favour a cycling ban.
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MM......with the greatest of respect, your view that 'kids will be kids' and should be allowed to do whatever they like (and apparantly that includes speeding around site roads on bikes) is exaclty what is attracting all the 'negative' comments about kids.
The thing is, people invest a lot of money in their cars, caravans, motorhomes and also in their holidays (especially if going to CC sites
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so they don't want them to be spoiled.There are plenty of kids that run wild on sites and their parents so often ignore them, because at least they are out of their way for a while. If anyone said anything to those parents though, they would swear blind that they were good kids and that they
were good parents.At York Rowntree, there is a payground right next door to the site with a bike park. And yet kids still play on the site and cycle round and round......often while their parents are 'busy' having a drink outside their van.
That's what the problem is.
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Nobody wants to see a child hurt, either by being run over by a car, or slamming into the side at circa 10 mph. What also should not be forgotten is apart from the damage to said kids, possibly severe as few seem to wear helmets, is the traumatic affect
on the person driving the vehicle. In some cases it could be life changing for both child and driver. Campsite roads are not a play areas and I for one would favour a cycling ban.Agreed.....site roads are not play areas, They are roads.
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We were on the New Forest Centennary Site in May of this year and the children were going around the lower part of the site at ridiculous speed round and round both ways. Anyone who has been there recently will know what i mean. The club has opened a new area last year i believe and this is where the children were going around using it like a racetrack from 3 years of age upwards. We were on the corner and witnesed this every day, they would come out onto the main road and go left against the oneway without looking luckily no one was injured, where's the parents for allowing this to happen.
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.... Campsite roads are not a play areas and I for one would favour a cycling ban.
Agree, they're not a play ground, but a far safer place than the alternative ie the public highway. If kids can't cycle in the relative saftey of a caravan site, where else could you suggest?
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.... Campsite roads are not a play areas and I for one would favour a cycling ban.
Agree, they're not a play ground, but a far safer place than the alternative ie the public highway. If kids can't cycle in the relative saftey of a caravan site, where else could you suggest?
On proper cycle tracks which are plenty in all areas you live and visit
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The thing is kids will be kids. If they cycled round the site within the rules, there would not be a problem. However, the majority don't and this in my opinion is the issue. As Briang says there are plenty of proper cycling tracks, far more than when we were kids. However, except in the case of older children, this does involve the parents going with them. Some I fear find it easier, for them, to let them terrorise the site roads.
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.... Campsite roads are not a play areas and I for one would favour a cycling ban.
Agree, they're not a play ground, but a far safer place than the alternative ie the public highway. If kids can't cycle in the relative saftey of a caravan site, where else could you suggest?
MM, nobody is saying the kids should not ride their bikes around a site. All the comments on here just want some common sense from them and their parents. Particulary parents who just let their charges do whatever they want as long as it not around them!
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It is clear that a lot of people posting on this subject would be happier on Adult Only sites. Why continue to go to sites where children play if you don't like It happening?
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