Your attitude exemplifies everything that's wrong with off road bike paths. I can safely and easily maintain a minimum speed of 35km/h on the road; I'm lucky to get up to 30km/h on the bike path. Why should I use an inferior road?MikeyOz said:1. Not on Beach Rd during Peak hour with cars/trucks/buses/motorbikes/cyclists all wanting to get to work, oh wait...hey maybe the Two Lane bike path that follows the same route would be a good idea. And this is Melbourne peak hour not Brisbane Peak hour.
2. Yeah I wanted to ride up behind him yelling at him with Trucks and buses going past him, maybe I should have just pushed him into the Bushes myself.
3. Because he was seriously and dangerously taking up an entire lane and I am a cyclist as well. It works both ways you know, we dont need an entire lane. 2 A breast fair enough, 1 cyclist that time of day on that road, in an entire lane, get off and use the bike path, for that 2 km section.
Besides the whole ``cyclists delay traffic'' thing is a fallacy. Sure, they might have had to pause in their progress for thirty seconds but I bet you every single vehicle (save yourself it would seem) managed to get around the cyclist, only to be delayed by the car in front or the next red light.
The cyclist was quite correct to assert his right to space, it would seem that your knowledge in how to safely use roads is deficient. I suggest you learn before you become a cropper or take your own advice and use those God awful off road bile lanes.
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Cheers
Euan