Cycling UK Forum

Mmm, this is in a city that boasts the worst postcode area for non insured cars, a staggeringly high percentage. I'm sure a squished cyclist would only mean a trip to the car wash for them. I'm sort of in a smile back and wink at them stage at the moment. You never know how many are sat behind those blackened windows.

Mmm one day I did jump off the pavement and back onto the cycle lane and adopted a kind of "go slow" up to the lights. The driver behind was keen to give me his opinion and told me he would hardly feel a cyclist under his 4X4 wheels should I pull that stunt again.

It is a broken white line lane. It is now a continuation of an earlier marked cycle lane that used to give up just as the cars started to double up approaching the traffic lights some 600m from the junction. Then overnight it appeared all marked and badged up but the cars pay no heed to it.Through the lights it changes to a solid lined bus, taxi, cycle lane with time restrictions and that is observed to the very minute as I try hit it as the times kick in.
I rang the council to confirm it was a cycle lane right to the lights and perhaps a few more bike icons in the newer part might help. God bless them they painted some more in within days, was I impressed.
However to no avail

Hi, What happens if vehicular traffic just ignores a cycle lane? What rights or right of reply does a cyclist have? A main road on my commute has been manic for years, where two lanes of traffic form on basically a car and a half width of road. Half the traffic turns right, half goes straight forward and the cyclists use the unfrequented footpath.
Now part of the road has been designated as a cycle lane, all lined out, signed up and bicycle icons painted on. In theory the two lines of traffic have to form one line and the cyclist has his/her lane.
Not a bit of it, the cars just carry on as it was, even the "professionals" buses, wagons, taxis etc carry on regardless. To cap it all a driver abused me for using the footpath whilst he was jammed on the cycle lane. Of course I suggested I'd use the correct lane if he got out of it. His reply "It will never be a cycle lane, this road is too busy to have one!"
Any thoughts?

thank you all so much for the replies, i'm encouraged to go ahead with it armed with your great advice, cheers

wow! thanks helen. my initial thoughts were a triangular route within the 3 cities venturing into the centres for a little while before getting out, this seems very possible now. managed with little french to secure a room each night but it seemed a bit of a runabout at the time, we will have no italian so i'm leaning towards booking it all in advance. thanks for your detailed reply

Hi everyone, early thoughts for next year may/june, fly to Pisa and take it from there basically. advice needed on all areas.
take bikes on flight or hire there?
use one pre booked place as a base or no problem in finding digs on the day?
50 miles a day possible? terrain?
the best routes, things to see, etc?
if i sound vague it's because i am, last year sought advice from these forums and france trip was a huge success. ive made a rod for my own back as a willing "mug" and armed with an empty visa card i'm looking to you all to input another quality venture.
cheers in anticipation GPL

oh she's not going out at christmas mick, i took her out in july

cycling in france again

her birthday, my birthday, our anniversary all in same week. an old yorkshire trick, i only have to take her out once.

i'm glad about the detectors jan! i hope everybody on here has them. now to answer your question, i know its sad but i would rescue my "activities diary/ledger" it started as a bit of fun recording walks, runs, cycles etc, recorded companions, times, dates, the news story at the time, the music of the time, daft things that happened. sadly registers a few deaths of pals past.
great to look back on but scary too. i was up a fell in the lakes and it was 15 years since my last visit, i'd guessed at 7years. i kept up to it for some reading when i'm old and crippled. i would rescue this.

fit smoke detectors! ring your local fire station request a free home fire safety check, to my knowledge detectors are fitted free, one on each living level, for the elderly free chip pan and electric blanket exchanes. and jan19 will have to worry no more

aye, taylors tea, don't forget t'squeeze bag so spoon stands up in cup, nowt like it.

could cycling, under its own rules and regs, have fallen like other sports into a favouring of the defensives? how many football teams sit back and hope to hit on the counter? baseline tennis players waiting for the mistake? a capable cycling team now feels confident of protecting a minute lead over a three week event. i really dont know enough about cycling to offer solutions but the tour looks as sterile as a competition could ever become. doesn't ever stop me watching it though, its stunning. suppose all sports yearn for a immortal.

prat plate owners, TOSS3Rs