Doubling Up On Road

[freecyclist]

Youve said alot including motorists should treat all cyclists like cars and only overtake when they can do so 100% in the other lane.
You now seem to be trying to distance yourself from this opinion by dishonest accusations and denials.

 

[Tim Hall]

Sorry Poacher i leave reading the highway code to sad old bankers like you.

Ah. Sub optimal response there.

Please don't make any further contributions to this thread til youve got a life.

What about me? Can I contribute?

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Sorry Poacher i leave reading the highway code to sad old bankers like you.
Please don't make any further contributions to this thread til youve got a life.

Said the man STILL arguing the same point some THREE DAYS after everyone else has given up...

 

[Hip Priest]

36 pages in and I don't think anybody is going to have their minds changed. Why not agree to disagree?

 

[MissTillyFlop]

36 pages in and I don't think anybody is going to have their minds changed. Why not agree to disagree?

Oh my god - surely not!? Wouldn't the whole world implode or something?

 

[ManiaMuse]

I haven't bothered to read this thread.

But, in normal everyday riding/commuting...

...what's the point in riding 2 abreast when you could be drafting them and getting a free ride instead? (unless with a group obviously)

 

[ianrauk]

I haven't bothered to read this thread.

But, in normal everyday riding/commuting...

...what's the point in riding 2 abreast when you could be drafting them and getting a free ride instead? (unless with a group obviously)

To have a conversation perhaps?

 

[theclaud]

I haven't bothered to read this thread.

But, in normal everyday riding/commuting...

...what's the point in riding 2 abreast when you could be drafting them and getting a free ride instead? (unless with a group obviously)

Probably wise on balance.

But it's nice to ride side by side. Companionable. Convivial. It says something about what public space is for. We should all do more of it.

 

[growingvegetables]

i leave reading the highway code to sad old bankers like you.

Your point is noted.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Has the time come for an Admin type to lock it out?

Nooooooo
This is classic stuff for some of us from the old C+ daze ....

Thread of the year IMO.

 

[Bicycle]

But it's nice to ride side by side. Companionable. Convivial. It says something about what public space is for. We should all do more of it.

I think we should not all be doing more of it.

Public space is for many things, but the roads are (amongst other things) part of our national transport infrastructure.

There are lots of lovely places to travel side-by-side and enjoy good company or a nice chat.

I think the road network is not necessarily one of those places.

Some drivers might confuse your desire for dialogue on a single-carriageway section of the A417 with a slightly bloody-minded attitude to other road users.

 

[totallyfixed]

If this isn't one huge wind up then someone has serious issues, but in any case please please keep going, haven't been this entertained since Fawlty Towers, tenacity and farce in equal measures

 

[gaz]

Surely it is ok to ride like this, i see plenty of drivers doing it each day.

 

[HLaB]

Is this still going

 

[pepecat]

I'm going to regret this but.........

Public space is for many things, but the roads are (amongst other things) part of our national transport infrastructure.

There are lots of lovely places to travel side-by-side and enjoy good company or a nice chat.

I think the road network is not necessarily one of those places.

(Off topic here but what other things are roads besides part of our national transport infrastructure? Or am i being thick here?)

Anyhow.... not sure of these lovely other places where one can cycle side by side. There are precious few cycle paths around the place, and those that are decent width are generally shared with pedestrians and any speed over about 8mph seems to be frowned on by those with kids / dogs / pushchairs also using the path. Plus you can't really go side by side on these paths because of the other path users.
Which i guess is the 'don't ride sidy by side on the road' argument - we can't (or shouldn't) cos of the other road users?

What's the problem with riding side by side on a wide road, or a quiet country road, or just on a normal size road? Any time i've been side by side with someone, we drop into single file when we hear a car coming up behind, let is go past, and then assume side by side-ness again. Are we really suggesting that decent cyclists kicking along at 18mph and more, and having a chat as they go (wish i could do that!) should not be on the roads side by side if it's possible to do that?