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[Matthew_T]

If I ever do need to jump the lights (legally) because they dont work/pick me up in the dark, then I get off the bike, walk it along the pavement, and hop back on when I am through them. I think it is quicker and easier to wait for the lights or a car to come behind you.

 

[upandover]

"What do you say...start-over?"

Good man - that's a much better response. No-one responding may have been particularly aggressive, but it did feel like a guy asking a simple question and then getting lynched. I'm sure there have to be better ways to change a mind?

If you're still reading Subway - start-over sounds good to me - much as I'm not much of a regular myself.

I am a big fan of the 'instant pedestrian' approach, on a difficult/slow junction. Hop off, walk - hop on = Cyclist, pedestrian, cyclist.

Cheers
Steve

 

[Norm]

If you're still reading Subway - start-over sounds good to me ...

Yup, maybe by explaining whether he'd act like that in / on a different vehicle.

As for outrage or aggressive, methinks subway's guilt was the driver for that, throwing toys around rather than considering that there might be a lesson in the responses, but he has deleted that post now so it is less obvious.

 

[gb155]

I've been commuting my 18 mile round tripfor a 8 month now
And am about to get my new cycle to work voucher
With my subway I often mount the pavement to bypass lights ect
Would a road bikes wheels cope or crumble ?

Troll anyone

 

[SportMonkey]

Troll anyone

Please don't tell him that, he'll get bad habits.

 

[smokeysmoo]

originally posted by the OP in another thread on the 1st July 2012

Cycling on the road is suicide in Manchester I stick to cycle lanes as much as I can but cars just park in them and cycle lanes on the footpath are full of pedestrians who tut when you aproach. I have seen police cyclists on the pavement many times so if they use the pavement so will I .as long as you give way to pedestrians nobody seems to mind. I have troed to cycle on the road but I would like to live a bit longer. If the cars and wagons dont kill you the huge amounts of glass and rubbish like tin cans and wire will

I guess subway uses parts of Manchester I've never been too in my 39 years. Mind you, it is a bloody big place innit?

That said, what does anyone expect when cycling in and around a city centre? It's bound to be feckin' busy with traffic!

Perhaps the Police you've seen were attending emergency calls and they were taking the shortest route, I hope they do that if I ever have to call them. As for the rubbish, I've never seen the level of detritus you describe. You weren't at the local dump looking for wheels were you?

 

[Norm]

Smokey, if you have comments on something in another thread, can you keep it to the other thread, please. There's no benefit putting it in every thread which subway has posted in.

Thanks.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Smokey, if you have comments on something in another thread, can you keep it to the other thread, please. There's no benefit putting it in every thread which subway has posted in.

Thanks.

Whatever you want boss. It just seemed relevant to this thread too IMHO.

*Hangs head and skulks off*

 

[fossyant]

Whatever you want boss. It just seemed relevant to this thread too IMHO.

*Hangs head and skulks off*

Hee hee - told off. !!!!

 

[Norm]

Whatever you want boss. It just seemed relevant to this thread too IMHO.

*Hangs head and skulks off*

Forum etiquette rather than anything else, smokey. Many places are fine with it but it can make the place a bit repetitive.

Thanks muchly.

 

[Lozatron]

At the risk of leaping in with both size tens...on my commute (from West London out to Staines) there are two junctions where the bike lane is actually on the pavement, and a totally legitimate way of going through a red light (in one case a left turn and the other straight on) is to get onto the pavement, bypass the light and get back on the road again. IN one case (the left turn) it actually seems like quite good road design - in the other it's one of those terrifying bike lanes which are set back into a wide pavement...

 

[Nebulous]

I have some bike lanes on the pavement, and I just totally ignore them. One deposits you right at the front of a queue of traffic at a very busy junction. Time your approach wrong and the traffic takes off while you are still on the pavement, and you have to sit looking at it until the lights change again.

 

[gambatte]

At the risk of leaping in with both size tens...on my commute (from West London out to Staines) there are two junctions where the bike lane is actually on the pavement, and a totally legitimate way of going through a red light (in one case a left turn and the other straight on) is to get onto the pavement, bypass the light and get back on the road again. IN one case (the left turn) it actually seems like quite good road design - in the other it's one of those terrifying bike lanes which are set back into a wide pavement...

I'm guessing with the reply that this isn't the situation faced by the OP though?

 

[fossyant]

PS a decent set of handbuilt road wheels are a damn site tougher than the wheels on most MTB's.

FACT ! Been explaining this to folk for 20 years.......... oh they are a bit thin....