'New' bike purchase...

[1198]

Under the new Covid 19 rules about essential journeys I'm a little curious how sales of bikes can continue? (I'm ignoring sales to essential workers for transport reasons) I have visions of people leaving bikes on drives so people can inspect them,negotiating a deal from a distance then throwing bags of cash 2m to the seller who chucks the v5 across, before the bike gets loaded into a van and driven home down back lanes to avoid police road blocks...
Yet the Internet is still full of people selling 'projects'....

[stinkwheel]

I think people need to be a little bit less self riteous about some things. (following solo walkers with drones, publically shaming people sittinbg on a park bench, police wandering round supermarkets checking what people have in their baskets) . It's getting toxic, more so than the virus.

I'm certain I could buy and pickup a second hand bike without coming within 10 feet of a single solitary human.

There's "rules" and there is common sense.

If that oppinion is "selfish" and "putting others at risk", I'd like to hear a credible reason why, not just because it's "the rules"

They make "rules" simple and broad because people can't be relied upon to make a sensible risk assessment themselves and because if you give them an inch, they'll take a holiday at the seaside. But I see it as like putting a 40 limit on a quiet twisty country road. It's a rule for people who can't drive, not for me.

In any case buying a bike locally off ebay, paypaling the money across, getting the V5 electronically then loading it into a van off the end of someones drive is a pretty low-risk activity in my book.
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[1198]

That’s pretty much my logic as well - common sense. I see little wrong with the concept personally, but having read and seen some over righteous chumps I’m simply interested!
I am aware of police stopping and turning around cars though - I work in Cumbria yet live in North / Mid Wales. Both areas are turning cars around and sending them home if seen as ‘tourist’ use - Lancashire Police seem particularly keen on enforcement from what I’ve read. It does mean that the roads are quiet though - my trip to the supermarket yesterday was rather speedier than normal!

[Easy-X]

I wonder if anyone's done any tests on the plastic money: does the virus cling to it better than the old paper notes? Brings a whole new meaning to "laundering money"
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[Bhud]

Going by news reports, there clearly isn't a lockdown in place, and the only REALLY Aimportant thing to do is to stop sunbathers and people going to the Lake District. International flights, ferry travel and Eurotunnel are fine though. So the policy here is herd immunity on the hush-hush. The only guaranteed safe bet outcome here is total economic collapse. Some people will have bought options in advance, and they won't want to cash in too early, so a few more weeks will be needed to inflict the most profit. There was never a plan to implement testing, was there. Well, that's handy: just run some care home/hospital tests when you feel like whipping up public panic.

I am extremely sceptical of these lockdown measures. In all honesty, I thought they would suspend all international travel. Superspreaders, not sunbathers, are what you want to stop. Instead we have the veneer of being seen to do something while not disadvantaging the people you shouldn't mess with. This has, slowly, become clear over the past couple of weeks.

If you look, there are gaping holes in the regs and you could drive a bus right through them. If deliveries are still given a tacit pass, and you don't need a govt licence to be a courier (to your own address), then collections must also be allowed (as selling or buying a bike is your work that can't be done from home that day), so there's your bike buying or selling covered.

[Polarbear]

In my world of canals you just have to see the bile being thrown about by the livaboard boaters who seem to think the canal towpath is their own personal path and no one else should be on it 'incase you kill me'.

Utterly utterly ridiculous accusations when there is no more risk than going anywhere else.

'But the towpath isn't wide enough for social distancing when passing'. Neither is a pavement or a path but as long as you are sensible it can be OK.

If the government think too many wankers are being too stupid they will implement a total lockdown. Till then being sensible and carrying on with life as best you can is fine in my view.

Trouble is, it isn't in so many others and shop to the police seems to becoming very popular.
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[ThatDippyTwat]

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[wr6133]

Sold a bike last week, just did so as normal. We didn't shake hands was all.

Neighbours were bitching about it on Facebook within 10 minutes

The only bad interaction with old bill you can have is travelling to the bike. Once you bought it and loaded up then why give a shit if you get stopped.... £30 fine added to ££££ the bike cost.

[mattyfattyboo...]

My brother bought a bike last week. Arrived at the guys house, everyone wash their hands and kept a decent distance. Paid by bank transfer and rode it home. No issues.

[TravisBickle]