Alien8
Senior Moment
- Location
- (A little bit north of) Cambridge
Imagine the following scenario:
On your regular commute there is a stretch of road of about 75m/100m where the near-kerb road surface (out to maybe 1.5m) is rapidly deteriorating with potholes etc. To ride over this you would need to substantially reduce your speed but it would still jar your bike all over the place – it would not be nice.
Your choices are to ride well out which will stop any following vehicles overtaking (traffic is bumper-to-bumper in the other direction) or use an off-road cycle path to your left. The cycle path, as usual, is fragmented by crossing side-roads and again your speed would be significantly reduced.
I choose to ride on the road – typically at +20mph on this section. Sometimes this is fine. Other times, like today, you get a continual horn blowing muppet and load of abuse from the muppet’s passenger (note that I pointed to the crap road surface as we went along to explain what I was doing and gave them a nice cheery wave as a thanks for the abuse).
On your regular commute there is a stretch of road of about 75m/100m where the near-kerb road surface (out to maybe 1.5m) is rapidly deteriorating with potholes etc. To ride over this you would need to substantially reduce your speed but it would still jar your bike all over the place – it would not be nice.
Your choices are to ride well out which will stop any following vehicles overtaking (traffic is bumper-to-bumper in the other direction) or use an off-road cycle path to your left. The cycle path, as usual, is fragmented by crossing side-roads and again your speed would be significantly reduced.
I choose to ride on the road – typically at +20mph on this section. Sometimes this is fine. Other times, like today, you get a continual horn blowing muppet and load of abuse from the muppet’s passenger (note that I pointed to the crap road surface as we went along to explain what I was doing and gave them a nice cheery wave as a thanks for the abuse).