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My 5 year old daughter cycles the mile to school. I also cycle with her around and about. What should I do? Let her cycle on the road?
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Is it?
My 5 year old daughter cycles the mile to school. I also cycle with her around and about. What should I do? Let her cycle on the road?
snorri
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- East coast, up a bit.
It appears you have led a sheltered life and cannot visualise pavements without adjacent shops and houses, also devoid of pedestrian traffic for long periods of the day and even longer periods of the night.
Roadrider48
Voice of the people
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- Londonistan
I'm not saying put small children in the road. And you know that.
But pavement cycling is dangerous!
Roadrider48
Voice of the people
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- Londonistan
It appears you talk crap!It appears you have led a sheltered life and cannot visualise pavements without adjacent shops and houses, also devoid of pedestrian traffic for long periods of the day and even longer periods of the night.
- Location
- Glasgow
It appears you have never visited the outskirts of Glasgow: nobody walks here, the pavements are empty, apart from the occasional cyclist
Not me btw
Get fitter so you can beast mode it up the hill on the road and not worry about the traffic behind you.
Use your judgment I'd say. If it is a busy, fast road with few houses and would be appropriate for share use just not marked, then perhaps it might be acceptable for a short distance. You might be safer on the road than you really think though.
Regarding pavement cycling in general, yes it does piss me off when people do it when I am walking, especially ninja cyclists and ones who ring their bell at me expecting me to jump out the way. The fact is pedestrians aren't as focused on the act of travelling as motorists and cyclists. Pedestrians are on their phones, texting, carrying shopping, daydreaming, young and old, some much slower than others, jogging, pushing prams, on scooters. They aren't in the same mindset as road users, they don't do shoulder checks or walk in predictable lines. It's not a place to be cycling in general, and that's even before you weigh up the potential of drivers reversing out of their drives not expecting you to come whizzing past where they can't see you.
Use your judgment I'd say. If it is a busy, fast road with few houses and would be appropriate for share use just not marked, then perhaps it might be acceptable for a short distance. You might be safer on the road than you really think though.
Regarding pavement cycling in general, yes it does piss me off when people do it when I am walking, especially ninja cyclists and ones who ring their bell at me expecting me to jump out the way. The fact is pedestrians aren't as focused on the act of travelling as motorists and cyclists. Pedestrians are on their phones, texting, carrying shopping, daydreaming, young and old, some much slower than others, jogging, pushing prams, on scooters. They aren't in the same mindset as road users, they don't do shoulder checks or walk in predictable lines. It's not a place to be cycling in general, and that's even before you weigh up the potential of drivers reversing out of their drives not expecting you to come whizzing past where they can't see you.
Roadrider48
Voice of the people
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- Londonistan
I was born in Glasgow!It appears you have never visited the outskirts of Glasgow: nobody walks here, the pavements are empty, apart from the occasional cyclist
Not me btw
RedRider
Pulling through
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- Location Embrocation
Is it the cracks between the slabs? Bring terrible bad luck so I hear.
Roadrider48
Voice of the people
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- Londonistan
Push your bike! People in mobility scooters have trouble walking.
Roadrider48
Voice of the people
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- Londonistan
No, it's the cyclists bunny hopping over them that's the problem.
End of the day, a mobility scooter is being used on a footpath. It poses the same risk regardless of who uses it.
Roadrider48
Voice of the people
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- Londonistan
You have a choice, they do not!
Unless you have some problem with the disabled.
Tell me exactly: what problem am I posing to the pedestrians, riding at less than 10mph with care, that I would not pose if I were walking the bike?
Roadrider48
Voice of the people
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- Londonistan
You really have to ask?