"Paul D" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Secondly, although I want to spend, probably 98% of my time on the road, I don't want a "road bike", because they refer to drop handlebar bikes that I would call 'racers' (the sort that are ridden by people who have special dispensation (not mentioned in the highway code) to ride fast on pavements and go through traffic lights at red).
Both my main bikes have drop bars. I *never* but *never* ride on the pavement and I *never* but *never* go through traffic lights at red, unless said lights are not working or am instructed to do so by a police officer etc., etc., etc. I know many other such people riding bikes with drop bars who adhere to riding safely.
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:22:43 +0100, "wafflycat" <wafflesATv21netDOTcoDOTuk>
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Both my main bikes have drop bars. I *never* but *never* ride on the pavement and I *never* but *never* go through traffic lights at red, unless said lights are not working or am instructed to do so by a police officer etc., etc., etc. I know many other such people riding bikes with drop bars who adhere to riding safely.
Maybe it's just the area of West London where I ride when in London, but I keep seeing people on drop handle bar'd bikes going through red lights (usually at pelicans when they people have long since crossed in a gap in the traffic), but also at some big hairy junctions.
It's certainly true that the vast majority of pavement cyclists are not road bike users - in fact, it's cutting off corners in the same area where I do see them doing it.
Perhaps it's just the same few people I see over and over again.
"Paul D" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Secondly, although I want to spend, probably 98% of my time on the road, I don't want a "road bike", because they refer to drop handlebar bikes that I would call 'racers' (the sort that are ridden by people who have special dispensation (not mentioned in the highway code) to ride fast on pavements and go through traffic lights at red).
Both my main bikes have drop bars. I *never* but *never* ride on the pavement and I *never* but *never* go through traffic lights at red, unless said lights are not working or am instructed to do so by a police officer etc., etc., etc. I know many other such people riding bikes with drop bars who adhere to riding safely.
I think he said you had special dispensation to do so, not that you did or you had to ;-)
