I ride with studs, but I'm curious which would you choose and why. This particular road is low to moderate traffic in a city that is indifferent to bikes.
by Dexter2700
I ride with studs, but I'm curious which would you choose and why. This particular road is low to moderate traffic in a city that is indifferent to bikes.
by Dexter2700
17 Comments
Always the non existent bike lane when snow is involved
I would avoid motor vehicles at all costs even with studs when the roads are slushy. I have seen too much nonsense out there.
The road.
I would be riding in the middle of the travel lane that’s closest to the curb.
I would ride in the centre of that right lane or I would find another route on a quieter road if possible.
I would definitely not ride in the slushy bike lane. Even with studs, the risk of sliding and ending up under the vehicle beside you is too high.
I’d be sending this to your city to explain this exact problem, and ask them what they’d recommend. Not because I think the agent on the other end has the best advice, but they’ll have to ask the infrastructure team who will have to think of this, which they probably haven’t considered before. We need the people working on projects to experience projects (bike lane engineers should ride bikes, bus route designers should ride the bus, etc).
Lots of missing context but based solely off information provided and detail in the photo (non-residential area, non-existent pedestrians) minimal driveways / intersection) – Sidewalk 100%
Street. Bicycles are vehicles and entitled to the full lane… and DO take the full lane or you will be run off of the road.
Take the lane and ride with traffic.
Road, that’s what I do. I do live in Sweden though where car users respect bikers unlike the us lol
Sidewalk 100%. At least you can focus on the terrain without having to worry too much about being killed by a car.
Take the road. The entire lane. Cyclists have every right to use the safest path, even if that path is the entire lane.
Sidewalks are for pedestrians and the road shoulder is for road debris – I don’t belong in either place.
Ride in the road.
Depends on the road. If it’s not too busy with a reasonable speed limit, the road. If the road is sketchy then the sidewalk.
I’d walk if I can or ride in the road if the drivers are acceptable. Right now I’m choosing to walk more than bike for these exact reasons.
anything not frozen!!
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