Lets see your cycle path

[ColinJ]

I bet those cobbles can get a bit slippery

Around this time of year - very! I walked down 'The Buttress' yesterday holding on to the handrail all the way down because the leaf mulch on top of the cobblestones was really dodgy to walk on. I definitely wouldn't want to be riding down it.

ColinJ, that looks terrifying

I tried riding down it once - just once! I got about 10 yards down it and quickly realised that I was going to die if I didn't stop before I built-up any more speed. The trouble is - how do you slow down on steep, slippery cobbles? In the end I locked the front wheel and started to go over the bars, Fortunately, I was able to grab hold of the handrail to stop myself falling.

In this Health & Safety-dominated world, how do they get away with directing cyclists down that monster!

Here's what one cyclist thought of the ascent ...

I've been toying with trying to ride up it one day, but even that is not without its hazards. You don't want a clipless pedal fall on a surface like that!

I was away this year when they held the first annual Buttress hillclimb event!

 

[dellzeqq]

Shoreham-by-Sea - spot the deliberate mistake.............

 

[threebikesmcginty]

National Route 5 as it passes through the urban sprawl that is Nether Worton.

 

[mcshroom]

Did anyone take a photo of the one we saw on the Whitstable FNR? It went all of two yards then up onto the pavement and round a bus stop layby ...

Is that the green one in Erith?

 

[mcshroom]

Who needs cycle paths, when you can use A-roads like this one

From my trip through the Great Glen last month

 

[snorri]

Is that the green one in Erith?

In the summer time there's a guy who takes over a bit of the pavement on Princes Street Edinburgh and does artwork in chalk, but he does bigger pictures than that cycle farcility.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

 

[potsy]

Thats not your bike ! It's too clean

Shut it Skudster!!

Came home that way today at 4pm, didn't fancy a rush-hour journey home on the roads, not used to travelling at those silly times

 

[400bhp]

Dr Beeching has done good.

Where's that on the TPT Potsy? Don't recognise it.

 

[potsy]

Where's that on the TPT Potsy? Don't recognise it.

Egypt. Here's the pyramid


It is also called Stockport

 

[400bhp]

Ahh, always gone west along the tpt. Never been further west than chorlton water park.

Worth venturing that way with wife and kids in tow?

 

[potsy]

Ahh, always gone west along the tpt. Never been further west than chorlton water park.

Worth venturing that way with wife and kids in tow?

Not really tbh, bit rough in parts, certainly not as good as the Alty-Warrington stretch I've been doing with the Mrs.

Nice change for the odd commute though, hence my need for a more suitable off-road bike

 

[Peteaud]

Dr Beeching has done good.

Where's that on the TPT Potsy? Don't recognise it.

I love the old railway lines, especialy the one with all the original bridges etc.

more i say - more

 

[fossyant]

TPT in winter (Same stretch as Potsy)

 

[potsy]

Looks great that Foss, will have to have a go down there this winter myself.
Tricross with nobbly-ish tyres and disc brakes coming up