Cyclepathic

[bigstraight6]

The London Borough of Chelsea and Kensington are soon to make it legal for cyclists to go THE WRONG WAY up one way streets! what a totally stupid idea, what next? making it legal for the snarling militant lycra clad pedalist minority to go through red lights and ride on pavements

[Milford Cubicle]

STRING EM ALL UP THAT'S WHAT I SAY

[pogweasel]

[M'coli]

Nah, just force us to use the ridiculous cycle paths that are more unsafe than the roads, esp. the ones around where I live...

[Guest]

Well I'm going to start driving the wrong way down one way streets, that'll show 'em.

[Torsten2001]

To be brutally frank when I'm on a bicycle, which is a rare thing, I really don't give a fcuk! Usually because I'm pissed and talking on the phone!

[vicsmith]

No, showing them would be burrowing vertically into one way streets in some sort of mechanical mole.

[j-j]

I don't understand this one, what's the use in this idea? Cycle paths are useless here too, We have several that are no longer than than a short haircut. There's one here in Glasgow that 'bridges' the pavement between a main road and a side street now bollard-ed off. The path is about 4 meters long. But we also have a brilliant 2 meter long cycle path! couldn't be more useless if it tried.I tend never to ride on the cycle lanes especially since they're so often on pavements where AFAIK it's an offense to cycle. (though more often than not it's perfectly safe to ride at low speed on big, wide, empty pavements) I think cycle lanes etc are the business of local authorities who are free to screw up any common sense available to any road planning of any sort in cities. Any campaigning against things like this might have to be on a local scale only. Maybe not though.As a motorist and cyclist I'll never agree to any tribal side-taking. But motorists (especially City drivers) that never give any alternatives a go have no right to judge cyclists of any type. Funnily too, sometimes out going somewhere in the CX, despite its phenomenal -other worldly comfort - and it's crisp steering and float on air sensation and all the attention you get driving it, I still sometimes just want to get home and hit the road on my bike. It's one of my favourate cars in the universe but even that isn't enough to dash the need for speed that I generated with my own stamina - even at near 30mph a bike feels faster than a car at 120

STRING EM ALL UP THAT'S WHAT I SAY

-string up all cyclists? - so you're referring to myself there too. Duly noted. It's interesting being a biker and a motorist - you get a view of the twits on both sides of the supposed divide. There are however more motorists in number and therefore more twits on that side by number. All those twits with all that power and momentum - scary, no wonder people lose loved ones each year to twits licenced to operate engine driven vehicles. I've experienced many city traffic incidents driving and riding like last month where a chronically thick woman crossed the center line of the road while I was on my bike - fuk, nothing like a little bit of near death to get you through the day. Then I had a twot in a Micra (tho it makes no odds what it was!) up my arse in a bus lane -why was he there with the other lane clear??!! I then hear angry voices behind me: it's a motorbiker shouting at this motorist for being such a twonk. Then I had a redneck in a 6 axle rigid blasting the air horn behind me riding completely in control and with all due consideration to consequence for presumably being 'in his way' -WTF!? his way? On a bike I could out accelerate a truck (or anything else given set distance) had I been given the chance to get out 'his way' but no! blasting of the horns was 'OK' - sad, tragic, unfit losers. I pity them.Despite this little sample of events I'd not say ' all motorists are dangerous, egocentric, power-crazed, nihilistic psycho-morons. Coz I'd have to include myself as a motorist in that. And I'm way too smart and good-looking to be one of them! So I don't tar all drivers with the same brush because it's knee-jerk emotion talking, not the truth being revealed. It'd be nice if some motor fanatics could button it WRT their opinions on 'EM ALL'

[fotorabia]

Im fortunate of not having to put up with to many cars here..just the dickeads who open doors in front of me..minor shit like that..and cause im a full grown [i think] adult on a BMX people are so dumbstruck that im able to pass safely...and i fully ignore the road rules..so its my life and their panelbeater...

 

 

faster u cnuts..notice healthy tobacco about to fall out of back pocket..wheres me lighter..!

[M'coli]

j-j, my experience of Glasgow's cycle paths is that they're bottle banks for yobs who like breaking bottles...

[j-j]

M'coli, sorry you had to experience the lighter side of this town... I got a flat tyre every time I travelled the same stretch but it wasn't glass - it was 2" nails sticking out of small lumps of timber but pointing straight up! Were these booby traps? don't think so - they'd fallen from scaffolding overhead where work was being done.

and i fully ignore the road rules..so its my life and their panelbeater...

- that's no useI always check before opening my door for -anything- coming. Not least I don't want my door bent. Yep, I frequently get doors spring open onto my path but I think it's just forgetfulness 9 times out of 10 and a fatneck moron only once (mind you some drivers don't appear to have good enough eyesight to be legally driving). It's similar with pedestrians crossing between stationary traffic or crossing in front of a bus and suddenly appearing right in front of you - for that I'm extra vigilant on the look out - O, and that makes me a better driver too.

[Milford Cubicle]

STRING EM ALL UP THAT'S WHAT I SAY

-string up all cyclists? - so you're referring to myself there too. Duly noted.

Sorry, I was just mocking the original poster's Daily Mail-esque ramblings, I'm a cyclist myself - though not an urban one.

[fotorabia]

Lobbing beer bottles out yor car window is traditional here as well..after 10 or so punctures i actually had shredded my back tyre..eventually i paid about $10 more on a re-inforced inner tubes and hence no more flats..our art posse here on our street combine an idea of classic cars..a Bambina ,Triumph 2000 Mk2 ,my Viva..and bikes..one Chopper and the rest BMXs..oh..the landlords rides a vintage BSA with original drop handlebars.. and ill rephrase the road rules..i pay all due care..pedestrian crossings..lights..i just take liberties when theres time and room...as i said before..its real quiet here..Wanganui has a motorbike street circuit race here on Boxing day..its called the Cemetary Circuit..i pedal it nearly everyday..and at night there aint a car in sight...

[M'coli]

M'coli, sorry you had to experience the lighter side of this town...

The best one's the one that comes off Dumbarton Road/ Victoria Road at Whiteinch heading towards Partick. Cyclists are not allowed onto the flyover over Balshagray Drive, so we get chucked up a cycle path with no way on or off other than to ride its course.Some arehole had hit the barriers and the headlamp glass was all over the cycle path. Did Glasgow corpy send a wee sweeper out? not in the 4 years I used it!It was also lethal in autumn, too with the leaves from trees forming a carpet across the path.

[mk2_craig]

What's the problem with contraflow bike lanes? If one-way streets are wide enough then it makes perfect sense to legitimise a cycle right of way, just so long as they are PROPERLY marked and ideally separated by kerbstones

[gtd2000]

Actually this is not half as daft as you folks think it is...There was a time when I first lived in the USA this young black chap came whizzing down my side of the road towards me with no lights on his bicycle and I admit I thought, "you stupid little c@#t". The fact that it was difficult to see him in the night was more of a concern and hence my initial reaction.Well, after a few more weeks of driving in Yankyland I noticed a good number of kids and adults on bikes driving towards me on the "wrong" side of the road Then I put 2 + 2 together and thought about pedestrians walking contra to the traffic flow and thought "fook me" this is actually more sensible than cycling with your back to the traffic waiting from some tosser to knock you off into the ditch while chatting on his mobile phone!So, other than the incredibly sensible right turn filter on a red light, this is yet another sensible Yanky solution

[j-j]

Sorry, I was just mocking the original poster's Daily Mail-esque ramblings, I'm a cyclist myself - though not an urban one.

even urban walking can be a nightmare.As for the right turn filter - that IS a good idea. I've seen people doing this here late at night when the traffic is quieter - I don't see it as an offence either -tho plod mightLast night in the pissing rain the police were stopping EVERY car on a busy shopping street here named Byres Road. There's a double murder enquiry going on but why stop every car in tail end of rush hour?

[gtd2000]

Sorry, I was just mocking the original poster's Daily Mail-esque ramblings, I'm a cyclist myself - though not an urban one.

even urban walking can be a nightmare.As for the right turn filter - that IS a good idea. I've seen people doing this here late at night when the traffic is quieter - I don't see it as an offence either -tho plod mightLast night in the pissing rain the police were stopping EVERY car on a busy shopping street here named Byres Road. There's a double murder enquiry going on but why stop every car in tail end of rush hour?

In 1986, as a fresh faced, young "recruitment" soldier on a K.A.P.E tour (Keeping the Army in the Public Eye) I spent some time in that area at a TA centre - god knows what it was actually called now but it was in the general location..I'm sure it's all changed quite a bit since then though?