Serious M.T.B. on local pavements.

[summerdays]

The one I vaguely know is not riding on the path to avoid traffic, but thrill seeking down flights of steps and is dangerous IMO! He has been stopped by the police but so far they have just said "naughty naughty please don't do it again".

 

[MontyVeda]

The one I vaguely know is not riding on the path to avoid traffic, but thrill seeking down flights of steps and is dangerous IMO! He has been stopped by the police but so far they have just said "naughty naughty please don't do it again".

not one of these two is it?

 

[briantrumpet]

The fears are unfounded. Mile for mile you're far more likely to kick the bucket riding on cycle specific infra structure than on a road.

Have you got data to back that up? This isn't one of those "You're making it up and I want to show you up!" requests, just that it would be genuinely useful to
shove down the "Get on the f**king cycle path" morons one occasionally has the pleasure of meeting.

 

[Drago]

It was in the CTC magazine, IIRC not the last one but one before.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I appreciate that, but we need to set the example that certainly adult bikes are not for pedestrian pavements, I also understand peoples fears of road traffic.

So what's your solution? You appreciate why people fear riding on roads but you want to send out a message that they shouldn't ride on the pavement.

 

[Hip Priest]

I cycle on the pavement for the mile and a half it takes me to escort my daughter to school. We go at about 7mph and take great care around pedestrians. The route to school via road simply isn't safe for a child (in my opinion) and I refuse to give up and take the car.

 

[classic33]

There's one who comes flying down to seperate streets, over the road(blind junction) "getting some air" on a set of steps, and finishes off by going down a pedestrian only precinct.
The roads he comes down are pedestrian only, except for morning and evening(deliveries).
He doesn't care about what he does and has managed to write one bike off this year, having hit someone.

The other ones seen daily are bus drivers, who feel that the roads are
en't safe, because there's too many buses on the roads!

 

[Globalti]

I don't ride on the pavement, I don't want chewing gum on my tyres.

 

[NorvernRob]

I see far more MTB's on the footpath than I do on the road. There are lots of trails around here (TPT, a country park and the Peak District) and 90% of MTB riders seem to get to those trails via footpaths instead of the road.

I see one guy in his 40's leave a local factory regularly and he also rides past my house on his way home - MTB, hi-viz jacket and riding on the footpath the entire time.

 

[Old jon]

In the dim and distant past,
My bicycle was not so fast,
If I did the pavement use,
All my mates would shout abuse.

 

[sidevalve]

Here we go - It's let's find excuses for cyclists to break the law time. Next will be examples of big bad car drivers breaking the law as though someone else doing something wrong in some way makes it ok. Footpaths - pavements are for PEOPLE - and that includes their children dogs invalid scooters wheelbarrows and anything else they want to use they are NOT for grown adults on bicycles bleating on with some pathetic excuse about the roads being dangerous or it's a short-cut rubbish. You want respect - grow up and take responsibility.
PS I expect a load of flak for upsetting the 'cyclists are perfect and can do as they please brigade' but I am getting a bit tired of this we can do no wrong crap.

 

[Julia9054]

One of my good friends is a mountain biker. He is terrified of riding in traffic. Yet he will happily chuck himself and his bike off cliff edges that look like certain death to me!
Takes all sorts.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Here we go - It's let's find excuses for cyclists to break the law time. Next will be examples of big bad car drivers breaking the law as though someone else doing something wrong in some way makes it ok. Footpaths - pavements are for PEOPLE - and that includes their children dogs invalid scooters wheelbarrows and anything else they want to use they are NOT for grown adults on bicycles bleating on with some pathetic excuse about the roads being dangerous or it's a short-cut rubbish. You want respect - grow up and take responsibility.
PS I expect a load of flak for upsetting the 'cyclists are perfect and can do as they please brigade' but I am getting a bit tired of this we can do no wrong crap.

What about canal tow paths, are we ok to ride on those? They have lots of grumbling pedestrians on them walking their dogs, sticking their fishing rods right across the path,having boozy parties like i witnessed in the summer.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

What about canal tow paths, are we ok to ride on those? They have lots of grumbling pedestrians on them walking their dogs, sticking their fishing rods right across the path,having boozy parties like i witnessed in the summer.

Yes. there is a permissive cycle access on towpaths, but pedestrians have priority.

 

[Drago]

I use the steps at a branch of Tesco for training Fed Pedallers, but have their permission to do so and tape the area off while we're at it.

PS I expect a load of flak for upsetting the 'cyclists are perfect and can do as they please brigade' but I am getting a bit tired of this we can do no wrong crap.

Not from me you won't. As a user group were terrible for shrieking blue murder are the perceive poor behaviour from others, while ignoring or sometimes even condoning similarly poor behaviour from our own Brothers and Sisters.