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Motorway cycling
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...300986,00.html
Of course, the M6 is normally so congested that it was probably safer than the pavement... |
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"Zog The Undeniable" wrote in message news:4216e8dd.0@entanet... http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...300986,00.html Of course, the M6 is normally so congested that it was probably safer than the pavement... I saw 2 lads on BMX type bikes cycling on the M1 hard shoulder earlyish one morning a few weeks ago, Notts or Derbys IIRC. Pete |
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In article , Peter B
writes "Zog The Undeniable" wrote in message news:4216e8dd.0@entanet... http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...300986,00.html Of course, the M6 is normally so congested that it was probably safer than the pavement... I saw 2 lads on BMX type bikes cycling on the M1 hard shoulder earlyish one morning a few weeks ago, Notts or Derbys IIRC. Pete An endearing memory from a few years ago was a gentleman of retirement age on a very old sit-up-and-beg bicycle, raincoat billowing out behind him, proceeding along the hard shoulder of the M4 between Langley and Windsor. -- Peter Grange |
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Reminds me of a frightening time, when my wife 'mistook' a turning off
of the dual carraigeway, and went down onto the M4 during a 10 mile time trial :-| After about 2 miles she realised her mistake. The frightening part (for the both of us) was that the Police found her attempting to cross the motorway (to get back) gave her a massive bollokin (acceptable, and fair enough) but then left her in a field to make her own way back. (idiots) The rest of us were with the timekeeper wondering where the f... she was, scouring the area, and she eventually turned up about 2 and a half hours later. Her worst 10 time ever :-| but alive !! |
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 07:21:04 +0000, Zog The Undeniable
wrote in message 4216e8dd.0@entanet: Of course, the M6 is normally so congested that it was probably safer than the pavement... Also faster, which is probably why they were so ****ed off :-) Guy -- "then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales |
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Zog The Undeniable wrote:
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...300986,00.html caution eh? Thant's nowt - should we all have a go??? Inagine the thrill.... I vaugely remember walking along the M57 from Hyde to Denton, before it opened to traffic. The local paper had a walk organised which we missed, sp we did it the weekend after - five parts ****ed. Quite a thing really. Also, we did a bit of trail riding on the mud of the M60 construction site, that was interesting too. All pretty illegal, I would have thought. bfn, Tony B |
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"Colin McKenzie" wrote in message ... I wonder how effective the ribbed white lines are at stopping sleeping drivers wandering onto the hard shoulder. Wake up at the back! They're buggar-all use, hence the advice to leave your vehicle and get well behind the barrier should you break down on a mway. Actually cycling on a mway hard shoulder is probably one of the pastimes in hell ;-) Pete |
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Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 07:21:04 +0000, Zog The Undeniable wrote in message 4216e8dd.0@entanet: Of course, the M6 is normally so congested that it was probably safer than the pavement... Also faster, which is probably why they were so ****ed off :-) I wonder how effective the ribbed white lines are at stopping sleeping drivers wandering onto the hard shoulder. If they work, it's arguable that M-way hard shoulders are as safe as anymhere to ride. Rules would be: come off and on again at every junction (including service areas); always pass stopped vehicles on the inside, dismounting if necessary. If the ribbed lines are effective, most of the casualties would be at the interchanges - where it's legal to cycle now. Of course, if cyclists could use the hard shoulder, there'd be nothing to stop pedestrians, mopeds, horses... Colin McKenzie |
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"Colin McKenzie" wrote:
I wonder how effective the ribbed white lines are at stopping sleeping drivers wandering onto the hard shoulder. If they work, it's arguable that M-way hard shoulders are as safe as anymhere to ride. Rules would be: come off and on again at every junction (including service areas); always pass stopped vehicles on the inside, dismounting if necessary. If they allow cyclists to use motorways, but with the restrictions you suggest, then that could be the thin edge of the wedge to "marginalise" cyclists on non mway roads. |
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In article , Peter B
writes Actually cycling on a mway hard shoulder is probably one of the pastimes in hell ;-) Unless you've actually been there (hard shoulder that is) it's difficult to imagine what it's like. My car broke down on the m4 about 20 years ago. I phoned the police then rather naively got back into the car to continue listening to the sports program on the radio. I got out after a very few minutes and stood on the grass bank. The violent bouncing around of the car caused by enormous vehicles travelling at enormous speeds only a foot or two away is a frightening experience. Apart from the possibility of a cyclist getting hit on the hard shoulder itself, the risk of being sucked into the nearside lane behind one HGV & squashed by the next one must be significant. -- Peter Grange |
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