How do you like your directions?

[Mad Doug Biker]

Seriously though, I think my Dog navigates on where you can get food from.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'll ask, sit and 'listen' and then carry on doing whatever I was doing because I didn't really hear a word of it.

 

[roadrash]

I need my directions to be as detailed as possible in all three respects, as I seem to have no sense of direction at all. Once I've gone round a couple of corners I have no idea which way I'm facing, it's quite a disability.

me too, youcould spin me round in my living room and i would be lost

 

[Arch]

If asked for directions, I always try to indicate turn directions with my hands, because I have a tendency to mix up left and right, and to get it correct I have to point, look at my hand and think it through.

York is a very convoluted place to give directions in, so many little streets at odd angles, with funny names. And if a driver asks I have to think carefully in case I send them down a road with cycle-only-width bollards at the end.

 

[summerdays]

I'm pretty happy using a combination of ways ... never the road names, but more by landmarks and my remembering the shape of a route. I'm going a different route to work tomorrow as I need to check out a particular route for a future trip. I've not looked at a single road name, instead I have a vague idea of the shape of the route, major junctions I've noted which way I need to turn and if the worst comes to the worst if I keep cycling at some point I will come across another bit that I recognise - however I suspect I will be absolutely fine.

 

[summerdays]

And if a driver asks I have to think carefully in case I send them down a road with cycle-only-width bollards at the end.

That last bit is the hardest bit I find about giving directions suddenly remembering that a car can't take the cycle contraflow or the route through the park and trying to work out how you are meant to get there when you can't use a bike! I even have that problem in the car myself.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That last bit is the hardest bit I find about giving directions suddenly remembering that a car can't take the cycle contraflow or the route through the park and trying to work out how you are meant to get there when you can't use a bike! I even have that problem in the car myself.

You think that's bad? Cindy (the dog) can't comprehend that a car can't take a pee in a bush....

 

[JtB]

The only directions I need are a post code and street number, TomTom does the rest.

 

[ColinJ]

The only directions I need are a post code and street number, TomTom does the rest.

Unfortunately, sometimes mister TomTom, he say 'go' when he should say 'no' - LINK!