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Cycling's enemy is not the car; it is the idiot.

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  • #2
    mmclo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭mmclo


    brooklyn-bridge-main_Full.jpg

    must get windy up there!! still some view


  • #3
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    It's a tough one when the area is shared and it's painfully busy.
    I cycled across the Golden Gate bridge a few weeks back (just on a crappy rental) which links a fairly cycling-friendly city (San Francisco) with a cycling hotspot (Marin County). There is only a path on one side of the bridge, shared between everyone, going in every direction. And it's busy as fnck. It's about 3 metres wide on average, with a general "keep right" rule, but with so many tourists, it can get a bit mad. Nevertheless, it's heavily used by idiots training and going well in excess of 25km/h, who get annoyed when a tourist or leisure cyclist gets in their way.

    Clearly pedestrians/leisure cyclists should keep right and look around them, but there's no excuse for going at training speeds within a few cm of much slower-travelling traffic. If I was to blast down a narrow hard shoulder at 100km/h, overtaking traffic moving five times slower than me, I'd lose my licence and rightly so.


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