Tetedelacourse said:
So it seems there are only 4 myths:
1. tax
2. cycle lanes
3. flashing lights
4. cycling two abreast
One rebuttal suits all: "wrong". Increase in volume and repeat until you deem the situation to be resolved.
Not really worthy of a sticky is it?
There are a lot more than that. Apart from the Helmet one there are plenty of small ones I think.
1. Contraflow cycle lanes or cycle lanes to the left of a no entry sign. Cyclists are allowed to use these.
2. Blue signs with cycle marked in it means some sort of cycle path whether shared use or whatever. There are quite a few peds and dog walkers that think unless the thing is painted in bright red it's not for cycling on. Many quieter shared use paths just have signs up every few hundred yards to sensibly save money.
3. No motor vehicles road sign. This does not apply to cyclists. Red circle with white inside, no vehicles, this does include bicycles. These may apply in town centers but also extreme urban roads and de facto motorways.
4. Gutter cycling, should probably add something in there in general about how rough the surface is, how detritous will give you punctures etc.
5. Filtering/overtaking to the right. Perfectly legal if sensibly done. Just because drivers get irked about it (usually after having just done it to me or other cars).
6. Bus lane mislabelled tarmac reinforcer messages. A fair few bus lanes exist where they have written in white tarmac Buses Only. These are errors/to save space and quite often mean buses, taxis, bicycles & access but they don't have the space to write them on the tarmac. Signs further up the road confirm you are allowed to cycle in them.
7. Many A roads are bad roads to cycle. This is a myth. In urban sections speeds could be as low as 20 or 30 miles per hour, add to that that many have double or single yellows in operation much of the day and the roads can be physically wider by a very large margin allowing primary or strong secondary to be taken with easy passes by other vehicles.