Racing roadkill
Guru
As a percentage of the low amount of times I use the things, it is a 'remarkable number of times'.
Shared use path/lanes?
- Thread starter Tin Pot
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As a percentage of the low amount of times I use the things, it is a 'remarkable number of times'.
- Location
- Manchester
Stay left where possible, especially going round corners where cyclists coming the other way will be on their left. If I meet a cyclist coming the other way who is on their right, I stop or slow down until they move over.
Runners, joggers and walkers etc can go where they like. Lots of patience, polite requests and the use of the bell needed.
Runners, joggers and walkers etc can go where they like. Lots of patience, polite requests and the use of the bell needed.
Racing roadkill
Guru
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
I don't give a monkeys, it's a rights and responsibilities issue again. They have the 'right' to do it, they have a responsibility not to ( ie to stay the hell out of the SEGREGATED cycle bit). If they don't like being shouted at, don't walk in the bit for cycles.
WOW..what a sad Sam you are.
I have ridden on shared paths in Denmark for 13 years and never had to shout or have an altercation with a cyclist or pedestrian. If I am approaching from behind a non aggressive ping on the bell gets their attention and they move out of the way. I dont care if I pass left or right of them as long as we are all safe and I get past.
Your rides must be so enjoyable.
- Location
- Manchester
Everyone moves eventually!You'd be waiting a while round here.
Racing roadkill
Guru
I was ignoring you, but I hit the 'show ignored content' thing, due to sausage fingers. Now I remember why I was ignoring you (you add nothing of interest to me whatsoever).
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
And it's not like anyone on a bike needs to get anywhere in a reasonable time(!)
"A fun and friendly cycling community"
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
Thank you. I hope you dont mind if I reciprocate.
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
What will it be like when everyone is cycling? It appears to me that the infrastructure being built at the moment is inadequate for even current levels of cycling. Rather like building single lane motorways.
- Location
- Manchester
And it's not like anyone on a bike needs to get anywhere in a reasonable time(!)
I've never been held up for long on a shared path and only ever by a jogger in front of me with loud music on through their head phones, when I couldn't get past for ages until a bit where the path widened out.
I find the junctions with side roads the thing that significantly affects progress rather than other users.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Not all of it, but a lot of it is. Highways England in particular need to get it through their thick skulls that 0.8m isn't really even wide enough for a single bike (the official width of a cyclist's envelope is 1m, plus another 0.5m if going slowly).
But the infrastructure being built now won't need to cope with everyone cycling. At least, not the ones alongside roads. It should only need to get us to the point where there's a critical mass and cycling can reclaim the carriageway, either through reallocation of space (bollarding off left lanes) or sheer weight of numbers. This is yet another reason why it's important that anyone who wants to cycle on carriageways still can.
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
Not read the whole thread, but just a comment on the staying left notion - which is something I do do, but not all cyclists drive or care about cars (or anything but asserting their own progress regardless in some rare instances) and while drive on the left roads are ubiquitous, if thats not your thing then its maybe not as intuitive to some as to others.
A piece of path with a bike painted on it could be seen as ride wherever just don't go onto the bit with the walky person symbol.
A piece of path with a bike painted on it could be seen as ride wherever just don't go onto the bit with the walky person symbol.
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
The only one I use around here has a dividing line but nothing to show which side is for cycles and which for peds.
I use the least lumpiest side until I see somebody coming then I would usually move left, though actually seeing another cyclist is quite a rarity on there anyway.
I use the least lumpiest side until I see somebody coming then I would usually move left, though actually seeing another cyclist is quite a rarity on there anyway.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
Yebbut honestly, how often do you meet a cyclist approaching you at 30mph on a narrow path?
