Your cycling fallacy is…

[booze and cake]

Can't believe its taken until page 5......'there is such a thing as road tax, and cyclists don't pay it'.

 

[Nibor]

The new one at Curry mile in Rusholme for one. Completely seperated now. Not ridden it yet but looks great and user friendly once finished.
The Padiham Greenway, The Haslingden Greenway.

the partially segregated ones on Manchester road on the Rawtenstall side of Haslingden arent bad either.

 

[cyberknight]

Lance Armstrong was the 1st cyclist on the Moon.

He probably felt like he was with the amount of juice sloshing around in his veins .

TMN to @Yellow Saddle

 

[shouldbeinbed]

The new one at Curry mile in Rusholme for one. Completely seperated now. Not ridden it yet but looks great.

Likewise I shall go for a play on it.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

You only cycle because you can't afford a car.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

You get less punctures if you call them p*'s

 

[booze and cake]

Some Dawes Galaxy owners are under 50

 

[classic33]

“People cycle on footways, causing danger to those walking”

“It’s too wet / dry / windy / hot / cold to cycle where I live”

 

[SavageHoutkop]

"you must get wet on your bike" (no, not normally, given good waterproofs)

 

[mjr]

You have to ride expensive lightweight bikes to REALLY enjoy cycling

I've just got my Dutchie roadster back on its wheels, it's lurvely to be cruising along again and it's definitely not lightweight (about the same weight as my hybrid but so much nicer).

maybe you can point me to one (not in Holland say)
I know I'm slightly trolling, but I genuinely can't off the top of my head recall a cycle lane which is "a good thing", though they may exist i theory

It's difficult. Most of the ones I like are cycle tracks rather than lanes, but how about Cambridge Hills Road? https://www.camcycle.org.uk/newsletters/122/article25.html - much better than the narrow shoot they replaced.

As for the later point about making every driveway a hazard - every driveway is already a hazard! A cycle lane/track without sufficient visibility of emerging motorists failing to stop might be a worse hazard, but some of the fools will pull out because "it's only a bike" and you can't be moving at any speed, right?

Cycle lanes ARE a good thing.

If you live in any other European country than the UK.

Yeah. Most of the UK is still crashingly bad at them. Even the better places aren't consistently good. So maybe the best cycle lanes in the UK are the short ones that bypass road closures or traffic lights?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Recumbents are dangerous because they're too low down for drivers to see them.

GC

 

[raleighnut]

"you must get wet on your bike" (no, not normally, given good waterproofs)

TMN to me.

 

[mjr]

"you must get wet on your bike"

@Fnaar?

 

[Markymark]

People taking about Strava make it sound interesting.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

You need a helmet if you want to go cycling.

GC