Wrong way down one way streets
thelawnet
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If you need to go the wrong way down a one way street, would you ride in the road, push your bike along the pavement , ride on the pavement or take a long detour?
Assume that the road is a residential road with speed bumps, and the pavement has very few people on it.
Assume that the road is a residential road with speed bumps, and the pavement has very few people on it.
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Might depend how long the street is, and whether I'm wearing shoes I can walk in.0
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short detor unless there was a very good reason, if not i'd walk the bike.0
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Depends on how far I'd be going down the street. Depends on how far the alternative rout was. Depends what the weather's like.
Just depends really.0 -
Yep! Depends on what the road is, how busy, how long, what time of day.... When I do go against the flow I will jump up on pavements if I have to and I'll walk if I have to too!0
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Do you lot run red lights as well?
Get off and walk, or get a map and figure out how to get to the other end of the one way street.0 -
thelawnet wrote:If you need to go the wrong way down a one way street, would you ride in the road, push your bike along the pavement , ride on the pavement or take a long detour?
Assume that the road is a residential road with speed bumps, and the pavement has very few people on it.
You don't NEED to go the wrong way doewn a one way street
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I do if it's a very quiet street with barely any traffic and it's just a short pootle, but not a major 1 way thourougfare. Sometimes I just clip 1 foot in and "scoot" with the other foot, so not really cycling. Better than ruining the clipless shoes. It's legal to cycle the "wrong" way down certain 1 way streets in London now anyway, BoZo legalised it.Do not write below this line. Office use only.0
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Headhuunter wrote:I do if it's a very quiet street with barely any traffic and it's just a short pootle, but not a major 1 way thourougfare. Sometimes I just clip 1 foot in and "scoot" with the other foot, so not really cycling.
Better than ruining the clipless shoes. It's legal to cycle the "wrong" way down certain 1 way streets in London now anyway, BoZo legalised it.
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spen666 wrote:Headhuunter wrote:I do if it's a very quiet street with barely any traffic and it's just a short pootle, but not a major 1 way thourougfare. Sometimes I just clip 1 foot in and "scoot" with the other foot, so not really cycling.
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I'd walk the bike down the pavement.
Not worth the potential fine, and ire of car drivers and peds alike for the few seconds gained. imho.Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0 -
Headhuunter wrote:spen666 wrote:Headhuunter wrote:I do if it's a very quiet street with barely any traffic and it's just a short pootle, but not a major 1 way thourougfare. Sometimes I just clip 1 foot in and "scoot" with the other foot, so not really cycling.
Do you have experience of that then?
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