Is that a thing? I ask because I and my best friend have vivid memories of my step dad, who used to be a postman, cycling home from town with 4 - 5m timbers under one arm. This would have been late 80s/early 90s. He’d call out and wave to people he knew with his “free” hand as he passed as well.
If even moving a plank of wood is illegal I can’t imagine how he got away with that, unmolested by plod, for so many years.
In the UK, 'pavement' doesn't refer to any paved road, but to what Americans call a 'sidewalk'.
Bicycles are ridden on the road, not the pavement.
Sometimes people ride bicycles on the pavement, but doing so with a long piece of wood would be very dangerous indeed.
Maybe a bicycle counts as a vehicle.