Anyone Ride on the A2?

Gazzaputt

I'm talking the 3 lane part between Danson Park junction and Falconwood. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=a2,+falconwood&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.563564,39.506836&ie=UTF8&hq=a2,+falconwood&hnear=&ll=51.455441,0.089583&spn=0.001255,0.002411&t=k&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.45539,0.08979&panoid=LJQd2uNLQIzpt2I7jZnIRw&cbp=12,105.03,,0,-3.01

If so you have a death wish.

There is a double width hard shoulder but you decide to ride on the inside lane at 7.40am with no lights and no hi viz. It was dark at this time and all the cars around had dipped lights on.

I watched a car skim past you at about 50mph.

Good luck

Edit - This was no POB either panniers, proper cycling gear, road bike, helmet and spds i.e someone who should know a bit better.

mantaray

Darwin award

mantaray

Darwin award

simonc2806

a couple of months ago it was early morning chucking down with rain and the rush hour and in the same place you mentioned a bloke was quite happy cycling along no helmet or lights and only yesterday someone was going from the woolwich road flyover towards the sun in the sands crazy crazy people

sc999cs

Darwin award +1

deptfordmarmoset

Earlier this year I saw a guy on a fully-laden touring bike pulled over on the hard shoulder between the M25 exit and the exit for Bluewater . I can only guess that he'd finally admitted to himself that he'd made a serious navigational error.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 53,,0,9.69

I was in the outside lane in heavy rush hour traffic with a car full of gear so even if I'd been able to stop within half-a-mile of him I wouldn't have been able to put his bike in the back anyway. I hope the poor guy caught his ferry.