Shrewsbury cycle route in Daily Mail today.

Shrewsbury cycle route in Daily Mail today.
Anyone used it?

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Martin Bulmer

Martin Bulmer wrote:
Shrewsbury cycle route in Daily Mail today.
Anyone used it?

What, the Daily Mail? Yes, wiped my *rse with it only this morning.

HTH,

- Bill -

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Shrewsbury cycle route in Daily Mail today.
Anyone used it?

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This article???

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...id=1770&ct= 5

Cheers, helen s

The Daily Mail have a strange split personality with regard to
cyclists:

Columnists1 On your bike and above the law

07/09/2005 10:37:49

An idiot on a bicycle went swerving through the shopping mall in
Staines, and hit an old woman right in the side. The idiot, he was
about 20, couldn't balance the bike after the collision. He came off
and also lay sprawled on the ground. .....read

Home2 Do lycra louts enrage you?

19/10/2003 09:53:09

As a survey highlights the dangers of cyclists, Kate Hoey MP launches
an attack on lycra louts - who she claims are law-breaking, smug road
users who threaten high street safety. Do you agree?.....read

News

http://tinyurl.com/fzjbt

wafflycat wrote:
"Martin Bulmer" wrote in message
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Shrewsbury cycle route in Daily Mail today.
Anyone used it?

This article???

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...id=1770&ct= 5

I believe that is a cycle lane rather than a cycle route.

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Dave...

Martin Bulmer wrote:
Shrewsbury cycle route in Daily Mail today.
Anyone used it?

Can't imagine why I'd wantr to.

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Cheerful Pedalling
John Mallard

Martin Bulmer wrote:
Shrewsbury cycle route in Daily Mail today.
Anyone used it?

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Martin Bulmer
Seems a good way of making sure that following vehicles can't see you -
so why use it?
Who dreams up this stuff? (and more worryingly, why?) I know who pays
for it :{

wheelist wrote:
Quotes from the article:

"And, because it forms a sharp curve, local riders say it would be
impossible to use the marked lane - which is only just longer than a
bike - without falling off."

'"I have found that the short length combined with the sharp curve
makes it impossible to ride around," said former racing cyclist Jim
Leach'

Okay, so the cycle lane is crap. But after looking at a picture of the
'lane' and judging from the quotes above I can see that there is a
much bigger problem: *people from Shrewsbury can't ride bikes round
corners!

I guess they were inspired by the course of their river;
http://tny.se/Kz
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Martin Bulmer

dkahn400 wrote:
wafflycat wrote:
"Martin Bulmer" wrote in message
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Shrewsbury cycle route in Daily Mail today.
Anyone used it?

This article???


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...id=1770&ct= 5

I believe that is a cycle lane rather than a cycle route.

Just quoting.
Any pedantry should be directed to the letters page at the Daily Mail.
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Martin Bulmer

Martin Bulmer wrote:
dkahn400 wrote:

I believe that is a cycle lane rather than a cycle route.

Just quoting.
Any pedantry should be directed to the letters page at the Daily Mail.

It's not just pedantry. The Highway Code, for example, treats cycle
routes and cycle lanes differently, and it's very easy to miss the
distinction as indeed the Mail did.

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Dave...