dirtypot Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 I really enjoy riding on the M3.(for one day a year in March... )
Smcon Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 At the Cradle on the weekend the number of cyclist without helmets was astonishing including one chap wearing a 'cyclist stay alive at 1.5m shirt' but no helmet?
johannrissik Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 Saw 2 really safety conscious idiots riding on the Freeway part of the M5 this morning. I know they were safety concious because they were wearing bright red and yellow "cyclists stay alive at 1.5" shirts. The fact that they had no lights on, in the fog, on a freeway, tells me that they were idiots!Darwin's Army has a massive recruiting drive on at this time of the year.
DJR Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 Darwin's Army has a massive recruiting drive on at this time of the year. Darwins' Army is a brilliant name for them
Stretched@Birth Posted January 27, 2015 Author Posted January 27, 2015 Well, if you need to get from the brewery to Klipriver road you have two options. Either you ride up Vereeniging road (or known as Steps to the cyclists) towards Thokosa/Katlehong, and risk getting bike jacked if there are two or less of you, or take the "R59 Shortcut", which is a 2.3km stretch (of which 1.8km is on the actual Regional Road) to the bottom of Rand Water road, which you then jump onto after a 10m piece of singletrack and head safely back to Klipriver road along there. Rather just live and let live/die and go on about your own life and business. If you don't like riding along that piece of road, then don't ride along it.If I must choose between risking it on 1.8km of very wide shouldered tar every now and again, and getting violently robbed, I think I'll go with the R59 option.I think you are missing the point. Riding a bicycle on a highway is against the law. These guys were breaking the law. Joe Public doesn't know/care about the issues we face with bike jackings because of the lawlessness in our country. Joe Public just think "look at those cyclist tjops, they think they are above the law". We do ourselves no favors with the general public's perception of cyclists. And as a side note, there were at least 6 of them together, riding on the road, not MTB past the brewery.
DJpak Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Wrong is wrong. U definitely cant say to ur children that cycle on the highway is right , can u??
GoLefty!! Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 When faced with chancing death by bus on a main road vs death by speed on a highway I think most cyclists will choose death by speed
CogitoErgoSum Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 You should then come have a look at the N4 Rustenburg highway. The section from Dr Swanepoel onwards to the M17 is a roadie's dream. There are even riding bunches (30plus riders) going out on the highway. The N4 is notoriously badly policed - cars go as fast as they want. There are no-cycling signage, but the ability to read is an accuired skill it seems
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