Cycling on the Motorway

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Matthew_T

"Young and Ex-whippet"
Have all you old people never heard of thrills? I am young, it is exhilarating going down there at 45mph with traffic barely able to pass you. The road has good visibility, and everyone is very courteous. I am fully aware of the traffic around me and the danger that they pose.
However, unless you actually go down their and have the experience of the thrill, then you dont know what you are missing out on.
 
I have cycled along the A55 many times where it is legal to do so. There hasnt been a suitable hard shoulder so I have kept very close to the cateyes on the left. Everyone gives me room and drives just like it is a normal road as far as overtakes go. I havent been beeped at or yelled at at all.
There are still some people out there who think that it is illegal to cycle along any length of the A55 (it is in certain parts). My mum even thought that I wasnt allowed to drive on there because I was a learner.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkC-RxvxDwg

Serious Kahoonas for that!
Your shadow looks like you're on a Penny Farthing with drops!
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
See, that's why I cringe when I see people cycling on the A82 going up towards Loch Lomond/to Glasgow, its really a motorway in all but name!


Really. Folk must have a pretty strange idea of what constitutes busy and or dangerous. I've used the A82 twice on a LEJOG and a JOGLE and wouldn't hesitate to use it again. There's quite a few folk on LEJOG forums advising against using the A82 but, in my opinion, it's a perfectly acceptable road to cycle on.
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
With regard to the hard shoulder, I've always thought it would be an amusing bit of protest vandalism to get one of those spraying tractors, enable the left arm only, fill it with green paint and paint a section of hard shoulder green, overnight. With enough mates stationed on the verges, you could spray stencil on a load of white bikes too.

Once upon a time it could have been done perhaps in the dead of night, but now I think there are too many cameras, and you'd be nicked in minutes....
 

mcshroom

Bionic Subsonic
With regard to the hard shoulder, I've always thought it would be an amusing bit of protest vandalism to get one of those spraying tractors, enable the left arm only, fill it with green paint and paint a section of hard shoulder green, overnight. With enough mates stationed on the verges, you could spray stencil on a load of white bikes too.

Once upon a time it could have been done perhaps in the dead of night, but now I think there are too many cameras, and you'd be nicked in minutes....

Depends what part of the network you go for. M6 over Shap has very few cameras.

Of course taking the tractor onto the Motorway would also be an offence
 

Mad Doug Biker

Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
Location
Craggy Island
Really. Folk must have a pretty strange idea of what constitutes busy and or dangerous. I've used the A82 twice on a LEJOG and a JOGLE and wouldn't hesitate to use it again. There's quite a few folk on LEJOG forums advising against using the A82 but, in my opinion, it's a perfectly acceptable road to cycle on.

Really? You haven't seen it at its worst, you will have only seen it as a snapshot in time. To be fair, I probably have a local bias about it, but it sure isn't a road I'd cycle on south of Tarbert if I could help it, it's the main route north and there are few alternatives, so EVERYTHING uses it!
 
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