Race to the ramp

[HJ]

HJ, care to share the location of this wonderful road. It might be worth the diversion.

Hutchison Road...

 

[HLaB]

I use to go down Pilton Drive and north of the Old railway bridge near the Ainslie centre you can really fly, even free wheeling you're faster than cars. You occasionally get one idiot though who doesn't like being overtaken and has to overtake me only to ground at a speed bump . I don't go that way anymore I decided the bumps were taking too much of a toll on my bike my rear rim blew shortly after starting to take the route and both stays of my SKS mud guards snapped too but I was probably going too fast. I wasn't sure how the bumps would handle in the wet/ winter too.

 

[Theseus]

Hutchison Road

Pilton Drive

Unfortunately, neither are close enough to me usual route to warrant a diversion.

 

[stowie]

Near me is a one way street with a slight decline and road-humps. I can fly over them (except when I have the shopping on the bike when the missus gets upset that everything has been reduced to a goey mush in the panniers) and the final road hump must have been measured wrongly because the downside grounds out cars doing little over 10mph. So many cars try to overtake and then trash their suspension on the last road-hump. I cycled past the other week and there was a whole bumper skirt sitting by the side of the road.

 

[goo_mason]

The speed bumps going up Groathill Avenue towards Telford Road are great fun for me - my fave was the one where he floored and and tried to take the middle line up the road to straddle the bumps on either side, only to have to screech to an undignified halt when he realised that he was about to hit a traffic island.

It's pure comedy gold - they roar up behind you, drop way back as they get over the bump, roar up again, drop back ad infinitum. You'd think that eventually it'd sink in that they'll never get past the cyclist until going downhill on Telford Road (and even then they have to beak the 30 mph limit to do it these days)

 

[HJ]

Near me is a one way street with a slight decline and road-humps. I can fly over them (except when I have the shopping on the bike when the missus gets upset that everything has been reduced to a goey mush in the panniers) and the final road hump must have been measured wrongly because the downside grounds out cars doing little over 10mph. So many cars try to overtake and then trash their suspension on the last road-hump. I cycled past the other week and there was a whole bumper skirt sitting by the side of the road.

This particular road is on the route home from the allotment, I am not supposed to use it during the soft fruit season...