What's the UK's best cycling city ?

[Flower]

i disagree with Sheffield being the worst city for cycling.
I grew up in Lodge Moor ,SheffieldS10 by the edge of the Peak District for 9 yrs and ive not seen roads like them since.
The roads that come out of the Hallamshire moors are remote,Untouched by traffic during the week,straight, plus hills for speed-youve got wicked views over the hills and fresh mountain/peak district air-i regrett to this day (27 yrs later) as i lived on the bike up there in moving

 

[rjwilki3]

Cambridge is a good example of a cycling City but it's a double edged sword. The amount of cycling means that there's way more idiots out there. The ones from abroad who ride on the road on the wrong side always crack me up or worry me - depends on how dangerous it is.

have to agree with the amount of idiots in cambridge that just do not seem to get it, on any given day when I ride down hills road and then need to stop at a set of lights I will get jumped by someone who just has to park just in front of me, putting themselves either in the middle of the crossing or just entering a junction, they will then proceed to ride of soooo slowly that I need to go back past as I gather speed, then coming up to the next set of lights they do it again. It does not matter where I seem to position myself they feel the need to get away from the lights first depsite the fact they are holding everyone else behind them up.

And for most of the city centre and slightly out in the sticks riders lights at night seem to be a completely foriegn concept. If I ride home after dark down the cyclepath between the hospital and shelford I have lost count of the close calls I have had with idiots coming flying at me from the other direction out of the blackness with no lights on.

The peds in Cambridge also make it a hazodous place to ride, have damaged a couple of wheels by being forced into the huge potholes on hills road by seemingly blind people just stepping into the cycle lanes.

Overall the drivers do not seem to bad to cyclists, probably because there are so many that anyone driving in cambridge has had to adapt to us so no real complaints there.

I do have a funny off on hills road as well, coming home from a climbing trip I was heading from the city centre up to the hospital, after just coming down the bridge I clock a moped riding in the cycle line, seemed a bit strange but he was obviously having problems as I was slowly gaining on him with my computer showing only 23mph. I catch him and move out slightly to overtake, but as I make my move he spots me in his mirrors and decides to move out and give me the cycle lane, seeing as it is meant for me rather than him. We had a little collision but both were fine so no harm done.

 

[craigwend]

HULL IS THE WORST ...... FACT!!!!!!!

http://www.thisishullandeastriding....cil-s-vision/story-12730007-detail/story.html


http://www.thisishullandeastriding....case-forward/story-12142309-detail/story.html


http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Spotlight-biking-mad/story-11964684-detail/story.html


However in East Riding


http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Cycle-event-complete/story-11955892-detail/story.html


http://www.thisishullandeastriding....uts-Beverley/story-12746441-detail/story.html


http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Sky-Sports-coming-town/story-11947912-detail/story.html


http://www.thisishullandeastriding....ycle-network/story-11951870-detail/story.html

 

[asterix]

The campaign for better transport did a headline grabbing study a while back that for cycling & walking ranked various cities in this order:-

1 NOTTINGHAM
2 MANCHESTER
2 CAMBRIDGE
4 MILTON KEYNES
5 BRIGHTON AND HOVE
6 NEWCASTLE
6 BRISTOL
8 SOUTHAMPTON
8 PLYMOUTH
10 LONDON
10 LIVERPOOL
12 LEEDS
13 LEICESTER
13 LUTON
15 PETERBOROUGH
16 SUNDERLAND
17 BIRMINGHAM
18 COVENTRY
19 SHEFFIELD

If you're wondering why, the questions to decide this were

C1 Children who walk or cycle to school
Percent of children (aged 5-15) who walk or cycle
to school in each city

C2 Condition of footway
General condition of footpaths along main roads
(BVPI 187 Category 1 and 2 Footways) – using
a consistent approach specified by the Audit
Commission. Expressed as a percentage.

C3 Population within 15 minutes of city centre
by cycle
Percentage of households within 15 minutes
cycle of each city centre

C4 Percentage of journeys using bicycle during
commuter time journeys
Estimated percentage journeys during commuter
time (7am - 9.59am) by cycling

I would say the best cycling city is probably London.

Well, it just proves the saying that there are lies, damned lies and then statistics.

My commuting career has included

Ipswich
Felixstowe
Manchester
Southampton
York

I have cycled a bit in London, Leeds, Winchester though not recently.

Southampton was the pits for drivers, Manchester not bad at all, Ipswich was OK, so was Felixstowe. The great thing about York commuting is that cars spend a lot of time not actually moving. The worst bit of my commute was invariable St Peter's School because of the number of parents, driving big posh cars, to whom my existence seemed irrelevant.

 

[marinyork]

Well, it just proves the saying that there are lies, damned lies and then statistics.

It depends. I think C3 is a good measure. They were mostly ripped out of the appendix for the hard of thinking. The list was just to stop the thread dying.

 

[Fab Foodie]

London, no doubt.
Cyclingwise, Exeter's nice, Bristols's nice, Oxford's nice, Cambridge is nice, but London stirs the soul, get's the juices flowing, makes you feel alive.