>> They're a damn menace around here. They expect you to get out of their way
>> on the pavements.
They're a menace in the centre of Northampton too. Mostly males of an age where they could perfectly well be on the road.
On the tabards thing let's compare with car registrations:
There are precise and prescriptive rules about plate colour, fonts, character size and everything else. Yet there are hundreds of thousands of cars on the road with letters/numbers set out to spell, or supposedly spell, a name or a business title. We have a bus company round here with Lion in it's name. They bought up multiple seventies era registrations where the second letter of the registration county identifier was L and the final characters 10N and rearranged them so the last characters spelled L10N. They were quickly rectified, possibly at the instigation of the Traffic Commissioner.
We have a Truckman top pickup locally for years with a reg that apparently reads RIFLE. In closer examination it's B1 FLE with a strategically placed white/yellow bolt.
Yesterday on the elevated section of the M6 I was passed at illegal speed by a motorbike with a tiny rear plate in the silver on black style that ceased to be legal except for pre 1970 machines donkey's years ago.
If they cannot enforce a very clear vehicle register how on earth are tabards to be enforced?
It's a total non starter.
People get away with it for years. H
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