Britain's top cycling city - what's your choice?

jamescw
jamescw Posts: 87
edited April 2010 in The bottom bracket
Cycling Plus have ranked Britain's 20 biggest cities in order of bike-friendliness and concluded that Bristol is the country's top cycling city:

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/c ... ersy-25634

Of course, not everyone agrees, and the article has provoked plenty of debate. So, which of the 10 cities that came highest in the list do you think should have come out on top?

Comments

  • br00kmeister
    br00kmeister Posts: 18
    Voted for Nottingham as its the only one I have cycled in!

    Although Nottingham do seem to be making more of an effort than some other cities to make cycling easier, it is still far too little compared to other European Cycling Cities.
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    suprised Oxford is not on the list - and to only include cyclists who are members of either BCF or CTC is utterly ridiculous....

    That's a very lazy way of gathering the data and it probably skews the entire survey...
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    no bodys wants to cycle IN a city, so I would siuggest you would be hard pushed to beat Leeds - Yorkshire dales, Pennines, North York Moors and the Vale of York for flat stuff all cycleable within the day, chuck in some fantastic beers and cakes and you are onto a winner

    but yes Leeds is god awful for actually cycling IN
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    meh! 5 votes since last Thursday! You need a 'None of the above' category cos they're all shite I expect (don't get me started on Bristol. UK's first cycling city my arse!!!)
  • Alain Quay
    Alain Quay Posts: 534
    A bit grim. I live in Edinburgh and parts of it are very dangerous for cylists.
    It also has some of the worst roads in the Uk for potholes etc.
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    I only know Nottingham and Leicester - of those I'd say Leicester is making a genuine attempt to make cycling more popular.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    I'd have expected York to be on there. Certainly better than Manchester.
  • bexley5200
    bexley5200 Posts: 692
    how about scunthorp
    going downhill slowly
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    bexley5200 wrote:
    how about scunthorp
    is that near Scunthorpe? i.e. Firewall City?
  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    its near grimsbe.
  • benjboy
    benjboy Posts: 258
    All citys are shit for cycling in because there are to many cars/buses/lorrys/taxis/4x4s.Do you want to take your life in your hands by trying to dodge these things day in day out!!
    Keep the chain tight all the way.
  • mattbass789
    mattbass789 Posts: 355
    the best city for me having ridden in a few is easily newcastle. Easy to get in and out of, and thanks to great north road, and the A1 most cars stay on those roads, and the high streets and residential areas are very quiet. and not far from northumberland national park so great riding.

    Also, Hull, cause it's so flat. and when you are out of the city through to the likes of beverley, walkington and etton, and out further there is some beautiful country side, I can go out for 6 hours and not see a single car, but lots of cyclists!
    “If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.”

    @mattbeedham
  • backtocycling
    backtocycling Posts: 479
    Leicester gets my vote but don't understand why London is not on the list. Cycling in London can be a pleasure in the right conditions.
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