Message for them wot make them cycling signs

[bluezelos]

How's about putting what sort of cycles can ride on signposted cycle route?


ie: I don't want to start going down a cycle route on my nice road bike only to be greeted with a load of gravel and potholes halfway down the route. I ain't going over that, so it's a u-turn for me.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The A6 is shocking isn't it?

 

[Drago]

Nice idea. A "Felt cycles only" route would be sweet.

 

[Twizit]

"No carbon - steel is real * "


* or titanium

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Nice idea. A "Felt cycles only" route would be sweet.

You've got to stop feeling up bikes. It's no longer the 70's.

 

[steveindenmark]

Brompton already do that in their advertising. Apparently they are City bike and you can only ride them in cities.

Then of course you can only ride electric bikes if you are old or knackered.

 

[vickster]

How's about putting what sort of cycles can ride on signposted cycle route?


ie: I don't want to start going down a cycle route on my nice road bike only to be greeted with a load of gravel and potholes halfway down the route. I ain't going over that, so it's a u-turn for me.

Nothing to stop you carrying out the research with support of other organisations such as Sustrans and providing the funds for doing so

Nothing to really prevent the use of a roadbike on a gravelly potholey surface, just take it slow and steady , walk if it's really bad, after all plenty of UK roads are not dissimilar to this

 

[Globalti]

Read up on The Rough Stuff Fellowship, they were riding, pushing and carrying skinny tyred bikes over mountains about 50 years before a bunch of American hippies even coined the term "mountain bike".

 

[Richard Fairhurst]

How's about putting what sort of cycles can ride on signposted cycle route?

ie: I don't want to start going down a cycle route on my nice road bike only to be greeted with a load of gravel and potholes halfway down the route. I ain't going over that, so it's a u-turn for me.

It's a great idea. Believe it or not the Department for Transport is really strict about what's allowed on signs - you're only allowed designs that are shown in this thing called TSRGD (Traffic Sign Regulations and General Directions). So you'd have to get them to agree to the idea...

 

[booze and cake]

More often that not when I have used the NCN routes on a road bike out in the shires, its ended up a rocky, bone shaking or boggy route that is not suitable for a road bike unless you inch along at 3mph, in which case you may as well walk. So now I just assume all NCN routes aren't suitable for road bikes, and generally avoid them as a result, sadly.

 

[Drago]

They quite happily put "unsuitable for motors" signs on roads that deteriorate into tracks, so I don't know why "unsuitable for road bicycles" would be that much of a leap for them.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

They quite happily put "unsuitable for motors" signs on roads that deteriorate into tracks, so I don't know why "unsuitable for road bicycles" would be that much of a leap for them.

Because it would be on every piece of cycling infrastructure ever built. Basically they'd be admitting "yes, this infrastructure is shoot"

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Just more guff and eye clutter. Just rip it up, start again and give us segregated infra.

 

[slow scot]

Nice idea. A "Felt cycles only" route would be sweet.

Who would need to feel it though? Could it be just anyone? Can't see that working!

 

[Drago]

Just more guff and eye clutter. Just rip it up, start again and give us segregated infra.

But good quality, well planned, well made segragated infrastructure. If they simply churn out more of the rubbish they produce at the moment they may as well not bother.