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glasgow guy · 19-09-2008, 19:36

you should always wear one as you never know when it may come in handy...that and your little one may think if mums not wearing one why should I ?
I have one and dont go out on my bike without it & my shades...whether it be on the canal or the road..
I have now got my time from my accy road burnley to my house in clayton down to 24 minutes!..and I must admit I do go pretty fast on some parts of the canal as there is nothing better than zipping through the mud and puddles at speed - but only when there is no one else on that bit..as I am not an aggressive cyclist..although it does bug me when you get a group of cyclists who cycle 2/3 or even 4 wide and wont let me go by them/leave enough room for me to get by, even though they know I am behind them..and that goes for the same on the road also...leaving me to cut out onto a lane of traffic to get by..and dont get me started about cars creeping into cycle lanes..the amount of times I get this is unreal - that and car drivers who dont use their mirrors at junctions thus not seeing me and nearly putting me on their bonnet/through their window AND cars who park next to cycle lanes and open their doors without checking whats comeing up behind them, I had a woman do this to me last week - she opened her door, I had to swerve out into the road and had a car nearly hit me - if I hadnt of swerved I would have hit her and her car at about 26 miles an hour...probably have broken every bone in my body if contact had been made...

and in regards to the poster going on about dogs on the canal, I see both sides of the coin being a dog owner and a cyclist and I have to agree that some folk dont give a hoots about there dogs and the fact I may be coming along behind them, and when I am on the canal with my dogs I always call them into the side when I see some lucky sods on their bikes coming towards me...nice to be nice and all that...
I have never been towards church way on my bike along the canal as my journey is always from clayton to burnley so I may have to give it a bash one morning...

19-09-2008, 19:36	#41
glasgow guy Senior Member+ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: ................... Posts: 1,441 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 891	Re: Bike Rides along the canal you should always wear one as you never know when it may come in handy...that and your little one may think if mums not wearing one why should I ? I have one and dont go out on my bike without it & my shades...whether it be on the canal or the road.. I have now got my time from my accy road burnley to my house in clayton down to 24 minutes!..and I must admit I do go pretty fast on some parts of the canal as there is nothing better than zipping through the mud and puddles at speed - but only when there is no one else on that bit..as I am not an aggressive cyclist..although it does bug me when you get a group of cyclists who cycle 2/3 or even 4 wide and wont let me go by them/leave enough room for me to get by, even though they know I am behind them..and that goes for the same on the road also...leaving me to cut out onto a lane of traffic to get by..and dont get me started about cars creeping into cycle lanes..the amount of times I get this is unreal - that and car drivers who dont use their mirrors at junctions thus not seeing me and nearly putting me on their bonnet/through their window AND cars who park next to cycle lanes and open their doors without checking whats comeing up behind them, I had a woman do this to me last week - she opened her door, I had to swerve out into the road and had a car nearly hit me - if I hadnt of swerved I would have hit her and her car at about 26 miles an hour...probably have broken every bone in my body if contact had been made... and in regards to the poster going on about dogs on the canal, I see both sides of the coin being a dog owner and a cyclist and I have to agree that some folk dont give a hoots about there dogs and the fact I may be coming along behind them, and when I am on the canal with my dogs I always call them into the side when I see some lucky sods on their bikes coming towards me...nice to be nice and all that... I have never been towards church way on my bike along the canal as my journey is always from clayton to burnley so I may have to give it a bash one morning... Last edited by glasgow guy; 19-09-2008 at 19:44.