simon the viking
Guru
I believe myself to be a considerate commuter-cyclist. I always wear a fluorescent cycling jacket and helmet, use two sets of lights, look behind me before I manoeuvre in traffic, never JRL (even at crossings) and wear Lycra (the last bit is nothing about being considerate just a confession).
My dilemma is this, on my 15 mile round trip I have to use quite a narrow but very busy bridge with 40 mph limit. do I...
A - Ride across it on the pavement paying particular attention to pedestrians as they have right of way?
B - Ride across on the road and risk injury or worse as cars can just overtake you as long as they only give 2 inches room while buses and lorries can't and just sit two foot off your back wheel revving aggressively?
C - Get off and walk, The bridge is over half a mile long and walking it pushing a bike would be a pain and add ten minutes to a thirty minute commute.
What would you do? Me? for a week I did B now I do A (but feel guilty about it every time) as I can't face C as I'm a cyclist. In my defence most people do A
My dilemma is this, on my 15 mile round trip I have to use quite a narrow but very busy bridge with 40 mph limit. do I...
A - Ride across it on the pavement paying particular attention to pedestrians as they have right of way?
B - Ride across on the road and risk injury or worse as cars can just overtake you as long as they only give 2 inches room while buses and lorries can't and just sit two foot off your back wheel revving aggressively?
C - Get off and walk, The bridge is over half a mile long and walking it pushing a bike would be a pain and add ten minutes to a thirty minute commute.
What would you do? Me? for a week I did B now I do A (but feel guilty about it every time) as I can't face C as I'm a cyclist. In my defence most people do A