'If there's a proper cycle lane, safer and easier than travelling on the road, 99.9% of cyclists will take it': Cycling club chairman hits back at drivers moaning about riders using the road cycling
:"If there's a proper, designated cycle lane that is safer and easier than travelling on the road, then 99.9 per cent of cyclists will take it. The trouble is the vast majority of cycle lanes are either badly designed, they're inconvenient or cars block them."He added that riders cycle on the road, ignoring the cycle lane, normally"because it's less convenient or less safe — they're usually the two reasons that people don't use the cycle lanes.
David said:"As a cyclist you can go the way that motorists go, or you can stop for every single junction and wait at the traffic lights. If I'm trying to get somewhere in a hurry, why should I want to stop at each individual lane, when I could just do what the traffic does which is a lot quicker? "It's also dependent on how efficient the lane is. If it's inefficient and you're trying to get somewhere you'll take a shortest route because you don't want to go around the house or keep stopping. Stopping takes up so much energy as a cyclist. If you have to keep stopping, it just uses twice as much energy.
"If I take people on rides, and I see a cycle lane in a place that I don't know, I often don't take it because I know that nine times out of ten I'll go on it and suddenly it will dump me into a dead end road or pavement. It's the trust in them that they're not going to just dump me after ten yards and it becomes a bit of a waste of time going on it."Dan joined road.cc in 2020, and spent most of his first year keeping you entertained on the live blog.
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