The Dumb Cyclists and Pedestrians thread...

[g-boaf]

Soon supposedly there will be a separate walking track, so she will be obliged to use that.

I suppose “soon” means 25 years away in the case of my council.

[jasonc]

Soon supposedly there will be a separate walking track, so she will be obliged to use that.

I suppose “soon” means 25 years away in the case of my council.

the $60 would provide so much satisfaction. of course your alternative is a bluetooth speaker that played loud revving 2 stroke motorbikes. maybe she'll move then

[Cyclophiliac]

Soon supposedly there will be a separate walking track, so she will be obliged to use that.

I suppose “soon” means 25 years away in the case of my council.

If it's anything like Melbourne, having separate paths will make absolutely no difference. Melbourne has some parallel walking and cycling paths along the shore between Port Melbourne and Brighton, and the pedestrians never stay off the cycling path. Naturally, if any cyclist (a) politely asks pedestrians to stay off the cycling path or (b) cycles on the pedestrian path, then there's hell to pay. But that's life for a cyclist in this country.

[Mr Purple]

Speaking of which, ran into one of the bigger park runs on Kedron Brook Bikeway on Saturday.

Pretty much this section:



Somehow despite it having separate bikeways and pathways, they'd managed in places to occupy the entire width of both going one direction. Kudos to the organisers who were doing their best to keep people on the grass and the walking path, but you do wonder what people are thinking sometimes.

Having said that I'm enjoying these sorts of situations more on my gravel bike than my road bike. Because 'giving up and taking to the grass' is always an option.

[jasonc]

Speaking of which, ran into one of the bigger park runs on Kedron Brook Bikeway on Saturday.

Pretty much this section:



Somehow despite it having separate bikeways and pathways, they'd managed in places to occupy the entire width of both going one direction. Kudos to the organisers who were doing their best to keep people on the grass and the walking path, but you do wonder what people are thinking sometimes.

Having said that I'm enjoying these sorts of situations more on my gravel bike than my road bike. Because 'giving up and taking to the grass' is always an option.

at my local it's mentioned every week that it's a shared path. you do have to wonder about the sense for the same rider to go back and forth a few times though. if I saw the signs, knowing the width of the path, i would be going elsewhere, very quickly

[Mr Purple]

Yep. As a rider you sort of have to accept fate at some point.

I met a friend at the hockey fields, and both of us had already decided 'we're not going back that way'. Given it's only a 5km event you'd have to mess up pretty seriously to run into it twice.

[g-boaf]

Soon supposedly there will be a separate walking track, so she will be obliged to use that.

I suppose “soon” means 25 years away in the case of my council.

the $60 would provide so much satisfaction. of course your alternative is a bluetooth speaker that played loud revving 2 stroke motorbikes. maybe she'll move then

Don’t need a speaker for motorbikes, those (and quad bikes) are already regular users of the shared path.

[jasonc]

Soon supposedly there will be a separate walking track, so she will be obliged to use that.

I suppose “soon” means 25 years away in the case of my council.

the $60 would provide so much satisfaction. of course your alternative is a bluetooth speaker that played loud revving 2 stroke motorbikes. maybe she'll move then

Don’t need a speaker for motorbikes, those (and quad bikes) are already regular users of the shared path.

wonder how old mate handles them

[Anrai]

Still trying very hard not to be the Dumb Cyclist myself, recently had..

A very small child out on a Saturday family ride, dismounted (with mother) to cross and stand on the opposite lane (can't go further, bordered by railway fence) to look at the ocean. I slowed right down just in case and sure enough the tyke turns around to no-look run straight back across in front of me, with the mother apologising. I'll dub that one Schrödinger's Toddler; treat as simultaneously occupying every positional state across the path until you're close enough to really know where they're gonna be.

I'm 25th(!)/85th respectively on the two variants of a gravel descent down a very shared path, but there's always about a 40% chance if I go for it there's going to be one or more groups fully blocking a section, and you can't really do much but slow down and accept it's not the day. Visibility is quite good so there's no close calls, but it might still be nice if people were aware it's a path bikes come down at 35+km/h before they go three-wide with their backs to the hill. (I still somehow managed 3s/1s from PRs yesterday after slowing to walking speed.)

Oh, and I think I've given up going for the uphill on the cycleway out of Hobart CBD. There's an alternate route that doesn't involve mutually assured destruction with cyclists cutting off across the path on a blind corner.