It’s Tuesday, the sun’s out (at least where I am), and Ryan Mallon’s back for a lovely, crisp day of cycling news, views, and nonsense on the live blog
Not sure about this one but most bike paths where I am have been desgned by traffic enginner who drive cars. They fusking mostly hopeless
And from the article
You know they laid the wrong type of surface?” Smallman asked a driver in the comments. “If you have a hybrid or road bike it’s useless.
“It’s designed for kids’ mountain bikes. The surface is loose stones, it’ll shred a road bike tyre. No cyclist was consulted when they chose the surface type.”
They do have a point. Except that apparently the bike path totally sucks.
Not sure about this one but most bike paths where I am have been desgned by traffic enginner who drive cars. They fusking mostly hopeless
And from the article
What is this even talking about? Road tires work just fine on gravel, it’s not like they surfaced it with broken glass.
Does “loose stones” mean something very different than “gravel”?
They’re saying it’s not a hard packed gravel. Someone got lazy and didn’t finish their job.
If the stones aren’t locked together by being packed down, they skip and slide across each other, which makes for poor ‘road’ conditions