The Highway Code goes through the cycling laws and makes it fairly
clear that there should be no problem with riding on the road. But
forget about The Highway Code, what it *doesn't* give is a legal
definition of a cycle. That's what I managed to find:
'"Cycle" means a bicycle, tricycle, or cycle having four or more
wheels, not being in any case a motor vehicle.'
So cycle laws don't cover a unicycle. There is nothing about
unicycles anywhere in the road traffic legislation. I'm not going to
wade through the whole of English law looking for any reference to
unicycling, so if anyone knows of a reference elsewhere I'd be
interested. It seems that it is quite legal to ride a unicycle on the
pavement in England. Does anyone know what the law says in the rest of
the UK?
If anyone fancies getting a copy of this definition (you never know
when it might be useful), my source is:
Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th edn, vol. 40 (Road Traffic), published
in 1983 by Butterworths, London.
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