Cycles on site

1789101113»

Comments

  • EmilysDad
    EmilysDad Forum Participant Posts: 8,973
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #362

    But Ian, in this & other topics, you seem very much in the camp of 'my way or the highway' and any one that disagrees with me  is wrong

  • Takethedogalong
    Takethedogalong Forum Participant Posts: 17,077 ✭✭✭
    10,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited September 2016 #363

    I'm definitely in Group 1

    You are in a group of your own! How many reincarnations is this now Piemuncher?Wink

  • magnet
    magnet Forum Participant Posts: 157
    edited September 2016 #364

    i  some times wonder if some people on here ever  had a childhood ? most of you must have been born old and grumpy or perhaps you may not have had children ? perhaps the club could have loads of adults only sites. we all stand more of a chance going to the
    supermarket and getting some idiot banging into our cars with there  doors and shopping tolleys now that is something to moan about.

  • EmilysDad
    EmilysDad Forum Participant Posts: 8,973
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #365

     ...... we all stand more of a chance going to the supermarket and getting some idiot banging into our cars with there  doors and shopping tolleys now that is something to moan about.

    exactly!! ...... not many crime ref numbers for car park dings

  • chris23
    chris23 Forum Participant Posts: 38
    edited September 2016 #366

    I'm not saying that sites shouldn't allow children to play or ride their bikes, as a parent of a 5 year old I understand their needs but my child plays within the club rules and if he doesn't he gets told off and if he continues to break the rules (on purpose)
    he is disapline. I think some parents fail to do this and that's why we have problems/incidents on sites.

  • EmilysDad
    EmilysDad Forum Participant Posts: 8,973
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #367

    ... but my child plays within the club rules and if he doesn't he gets told off and if he continues to break the rules (on purpose) he is disapline. ...

    101 or the full 999? Sealed

  • chris23
    chris23 Forum Participant Posts: 38
    edited September 2016 #368

     ...... we all stand more of a chance going to the supermarket and getting some idiot banging into our cars with there  doors and shopping tolleys now that is something to moan about.

    exactly!! ...... not many crime ref numbers for car park dings

    Write your comments here... But that's because most of the people who ding other people's doors disappear and don't take responsibility for what they have done. If you caught someone doing it and they tried to make off you would look at it differently (maybe)

  • EmilysDad
    EmilysDad Forum Participant Posts: 8,973
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #369

     ...... we all stand more of a chance going to the supermarket and getting some idiot banging into our cars with there  doors and shopping tolleys now that is something to moan about.

    exactly!! ...... not many crime ref numbers for car park dings

    Write your comments here... But that's because most of the people who ding other people's doors disappear and don't take responsibility for what they have done. If you caught someone doing it and they tried to make off you would look at it differently (maybe)

    Depends whether accidental or deliberate

  • chris23
    chris23 Forum Participant Posts: 38
    edited September 2016 #370

    It doesn't matter either way, if someone damages something belonging to you they should cover the costs to have it put right. If they don't and try and make off then it would be worth involving the law

  • EmilysDad
    EmilysDad Forum Participant Posts: 8,973
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #371

    It doesn't matter either way, if someone damages something belonging to you they should cover the costs to have it put right. If they don't and try and make off then it would be worth involving the law

    you mean the 8 yr old cycled off without leaving any contact deatails?????? No wonder you got plod involved!

  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited September 2016 #372

    i  some times wonder if some people on here ever  had a childhood ? most of you must have been born old and grumpy or perhaps you may not have had children ? perhaps the club could have loads of adults only sites. we all stand more of a chance going to the supermarket and getting some idiot banging into our cars with there  doors and shopping tolleys now that is something to moan about.

    true on all counts, until you have kids its is really difficult to understand what looking after that actually means, and how people without them can actually give extremly simplistic advice to those that have is beyond me.

    Club sites, as you say, are probably the safest place to cycle on. However the younger the child the more supervision it needs

  • IanH
    IanH Forum Participant Posts: 4,708
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #373

    Caravan sites are very unsafe places for kids to be playing on the roads and it seems very irresponsible of people to suggest otherwise. There are large motor vehicles and people towing huge trailers driving around - how can that be safe?

    No, the bottom line seems to be that parents just cannot be bothered to take them to somewhere more appropriate.

  • JayEss
    JayEss Forum Participant Posts: 1,663
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #374

    Part of being a responsible parent is allowing children to explore a safe environment without close supervision depending on age etc

    However when my kids were younger we did not take their bikes to club sites because driving standards are generally quite poor.  Apart from the speeding I tend to see an awful lot of poor observation and some reaction times that are slower than ideal. 

  • moulesy
    moulesy Forum Participant Posts: 9,404 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #375

    Well fortunately (for some) most of the little blighters will be back at school this week. Thank goodness for the dedicated and hard working teaching staff who provide youngsters with a safe and disciplined environment ( and stop them cycling around the
    playgrounds at breakneck speed in random directions! Wink)

  • IanH
    IanH Forum Participant Posts: 4,708
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #376

    I think you may have said that before, M........

  • moulesy
    moulesy Forum Participant Posts: 9,404 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #377

    Being repetitive must be catching then Ian, I say, being repetitive must be catching! (Apologies to the late Fred Elliott!) Wink

  • IanH
    IanH Forum Participant Posts: 4,708
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #378

    I think you may have said that before, M........

  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited September 2016 #379

    Well fortunately (for some) most of the little blighters will be back at school this week. Thank goodness for the dedicated and hard working teaching staff who provide youngsters with a safe and disciplined environment ( and stop them cycling around the
    playgrounds at breakneck speed in random directions! Wink)

    +1, if they don't play truant of course Smile

  • moulesy
    moulesy Forum Participant Posts: 9,404 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #380

    I think you may have said that before, M........

    I think you may have said that before, Ian. (About a minute ago in fact!) Wink

  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited September 2016 #381

    the tarmac 'roads' on site aren't really roads are they? how many times do you see people in dressing gowns and crocs working down the middle of your local road?

  • IanH
    IanH Forum Participant Posts: 4,708
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #382

    Well, in some parts of Lancashire I've heard.....

  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited September 2016 #383

    Smile

  • Hoskins123
    Hoskins123 Forum Participant Posts: 8
    edited September 2016 #384

     .... Please parents play your part, the wardens do their best but they are not resposible for your children, could you just imagine pulling into a site and bang you have a bump with a small child

    But as the driver, as long as you keep to 5mph & are able to stop, the worse that will happen is that they bang into your stationary vehicle, they're on holiday too.

    9m long?Innocent Our outfit is 43' long (don't do metric if I can avoid it)

    Write your comments here...I tow a trailer behind the camper

  • EmilysDad
    EmilysDad Forum Participant Posts: 8,973
    1000 Comments
    edited September 2016 #385

     ......I tow a trailer behind the camper

    Undecided ...  not sure of your point Undecided 

    there are trailers & trailers as there are campers & campers

  • Hoskins123
    Hoskins123 Forum Participant Posts: 8
    edited September 2016 #386

     ......I tow a trailer behind the camper

    Undecided ...  not sure of your point Undecided 

    there are trailers & trailers as there are campers & campers

    Write your comments here...I was asked how 9mts = 43ft, the camper is 9mts and I tow atrailer with a smart car inside it, camper and trailer = 43ft

  • Hoskins123
    Hoskins123 Forum Participant Posts: 8
    edited September 2016 #387

    Can I just say that I have no probs with kids or kids on bikes on site, I was trying to make a point on how guilty the driver, moving or stopped and the wardens would feel if a serious accident accured