Cycling UK Forum

So, of course it now looks like a conventional UK design. This should have been welocomed by those who spent most of this thread arguing that the proposed turbo design would have been cycle hostile. That really is a most disgraceful suggestion. Is this really your idea of adult debate? To suggest t...

I spent half an hour or so watching the traffic flow in the "rush hour" around this roundabout last time I was in Bedford and it seemed to be working quite well - traffic was flowing calmly, unlike the rest of the road system, and cyclists were either using the shared used pavement or tur...

I see the job is done. Anyone got any detail on whether it's any good in practice? All I've seen is a picture on Twitter, from @hesterkw, of a particularly naff transition from footway to carriageway via an angled kerb - didn't fill me with confidence that the rest of the execution would be much good.

Best 20" wheeled bike in the UK? This gets my vote: http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/01/04/e93090a5b41417b6146d64b3d7eebafd.jpg An oft-overlooked advantage of twenty inch wheels is that, especially on suspension bikes, they can be built very stiff (VERY stiff), which makes them much less li...

Great info - thanks everyone. Does anyone know if this has been done in Lincoln? It has a really steep town centre hill called, logically enough, Steep Hill. It's steep (naturally) narrow and cobbled in places. I saw a really good video of a fun hill climb up a road like that, which really gave a fl...

Anyone know of hill climb in a town centre, open to the general public? I'm sure I saw a video of one of these, and wonder whether my town could do something similar to encourage local cycling.

No, the auditors didn't understand it at all. I'm sorry, but in my option, they DID. The auditors understood that, with the originally proposed lane dividers, the only safe way for it to function was for cyclists to be forced off the carriageway. That the designers were originally, erroneously sugg...

Alan in Wales has said it - the auditors understood this better than the council. Again from the RSA:


M J Ray (@mjray on Twitter) deserves a medal for his FOI request.

Good blog update on this - http://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.co ... s-weirder/

Sustrans is defending its continued support for this mess:
http://www.sustrans.org.uk/blog/keep-pu ... e-progress

Pete Owens wrote:Actually it is very much worse than that. It is not just the lane dividers, but ALL the cycle-freindly design features appear to have gone.

Ah no, fair's fair. Presumably they'll still be installing eight dropped kerbs to give access onto pavements, and eight 'Cyclists Dismount' signs, perhaps...

Here's more. From the BMF, in favour:
http://www.ridermagazine.co.uk/the-bedf ... oundabout/

and from MAG, against:
http://invictamoto.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... t.html?m=1

Well Bedford's cycling officer was right - the turbo-roundabout will indeed be constructed in July. It appears that the problems have been 'solved'! http://www.transportxtra.com/magazines/local_transport_today/news/?id=38406&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter They've obviously had a q...

My job means I'm out on the water all day, every day (lucky me!) If I don't wear sunscreen, I burn. Then I have to go out on the water the following day - and I burn more. Without wearing sunscreen I couldn't do my job, it's as simple as that. It has nothing to do with avoiding skin cancer and every...

Surreal, isn't it? Language is sometimes so corrupted that phrases like "non accidental accident" take on a spurious legitimacy.

Your link shows us that the indiscriminate use of 'accident' to describe all RTCs is wrong, very wrong.