Cycle Speed Bumps
n1_pete
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Hi first time I've posted a topic. Hope of interest to you.
Local residents have installed 'cycle bumps' to slow down speeding cyclists. I'm off down to take a look to see how effective they actually are. The 'street' is more of an alley.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090925/tuk-pavement-speed-bumps-slow-cyclists-6323e80.html
Has anyone else seen these things in their area? Do you think it's a sign of things to come?
Local residents have installed 'cycle bumps' to slow down speeding cyclists. I'm off down to take a look to see how effective they actually are. The 'street' is more of an alley.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090925/tuk-pavement-speed-bumps-slow-cyclists-6323e80.html
Has anyone else seen these things in their area? Do you think it's a sign of things to come?
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Bunny hop.
They'll have to be quite lethal to bikes cause allot of bumps you can do well over 30 on a bicycle if you are careful.0 -
I'd plow into it and sue the feckers 8)winter beast: http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr34 ... uff016.jpg
Summer beast; http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr34 ... uff015.jpg0 -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8274031.stm
I think they have just used a pic of some speed humps because these wouldnt slow me down. What I have found is that the newer speed bumps doesnt slow me down at all. I can comfortably hit them at over 20mph.0 -
In the Tour of Britain they went over much MUCH worse speed bumps than that at likely over 30mph.0
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Here's a link to the story in the times.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6848203.ece
Note the pic, I wouldn't go over those at 30!
Plus, of course, the usual anti-cyclist crap in the comments.
Can some of you Londoners comment on how prevalent aggressive, illegal riding really is among city cyclists?0 -
Local councils have for years been installing random potholes all over their roads to discourage cyclistsn1_pete wrote:Has anyone else seen these things in their area?0 -
Wouldn't a white line down the middle with bikes on one side and walkers on the other cost less?
No wonder the roads are full of holes! Muppets in charge!0 -
Is this a piss take?
Do they not have something more constructive to spend money on?0 -
Apparently they don't extend to the edges so there are some quite challenging slalom possibilities... not that I'm suggesting anything, oh, no....0
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What a waste of time. Speed bumps hardly slow cyclists down as we can just take the bump in our knees anyway. I only bother slowing down for really harsh ones now!0
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I want to take my mountain bike down there and have a go at full speed.0
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the funny subtitle on the yahoo "speeding cyclists shattering the peace of a quiet back street" in response to that, the mtb & bmx riders should make this sound
http://dagobah.biz/flash/f1.swf
whyamihere your challenge if you choose to accept it. major 0
