Royal Parks says Jeremy Vine didn’t break speed limit – because it doesn’t apply to cyclists

Question about speed limit on a bicycle.

My bicycle does not have a speedometer? It is not required to have one either for legal use on highway.

So, how do I accurately gauge my speed to comply with 'speed limits' that parks may or may not be enforcing?

Of course, I understand guidance about 'cycling furiously' I.e. racing/acting like a prat where excess speed is inappropriate and dangerous to others.

You really could not make it up!?!

I think the organisation responsible for the Royal Parks know best whether or not there is a speed limit for cycles, and they say there is NOT.... This isnt a case of people not reading properly unless you count anyone missing the fact that the response is from said organisation!

To make it worse, those amendments were all about imposing parking fees for Richmond Park, which was then abandoned. Total confusion. I'd be amazed if the Parks had been intending to change the law so as to be the only place in the country with speed limits for cyclists. This situation offers no legal certainty. They need to issue a formal statement.

Actually, I'm afraid, there is a speed limit for bicycles in the Royal Parks.

The principal regulations were laid in 1997. Amendments have been laid from time to time since, and in 2010 there were amendments which set new speed limits for veicles in each park, and a new definition of "vehicle" as a mechanically propelled vehicle designed primarily for road use.

Some people have read this on legislation.gov.uk and looked no further, but the site doesn't show legislation as amended, only as it was in its original form, so you have to read on to later amendments.

In fact, there was a furher amendment regulation in 2010, very shortly after the 2010 regs referred to by other commenters, which explicitly revoked specific bits of the regs only laid a few months earlier. They did not revoke the 2010 amendments on speed limits, but they did revoke the definitions including that of "vehicle"

That means you have to go back to the 1997 regulations, which don't contain their own definition of vehicle. That means you have to look under the rules of statutory construction first to a general legal definition, and failing that to a dictionary definition. I understand that the general legal definition however does not restrict to mechanically propelled and does include bicycles (and presumably horse drawn carriages) .

Why don't the idiot plods stand at the side of any rural road, preferably behind a hedge, pointing their radar gun at speeding cars exceeding the speed limit? If they stopped me in any of the mentioned parks I would love to tell them what they could do with their radar gun.

Met officer with a speed gun in a Royal Park and told to stop cyclists and give them a warning about their speed?
Sounds like an initiation prank which has been caught on camera!
Poor fella, bet he's getting heaps back at his station.

Now can the teenage boy taken to court for descending Sawyers at 37mph (Chapeau!) have his criminal record deleted and his fine refunded?

How could a motor vehicle use a cycle lane on the footpath? Does this mean cyclists can legally exceed 20mph in Richmond Park? Are runners also "asked" to keep their speed below 5mph on the path? So many ???s Lovely British muddle.

“a criminal offence occurs when someone intentionally or recklessly interferes with the safety … of any person.”.............Interesting to hear a bit more from the police on that one, particularly on how it seems not to apply when you are behind the wheel of a car.

Have you been given a Royal Pardon then?

Ha!