bike lanes
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'Round these parts they're clear of parked cars and are free of debris.
Yep, we have a lot of them and I use them a ton.
we have them around here , but they are generally full of crap so i just ride in the road
I do the same, but it appears that a cop can 'tell' me to get in the bike lane.
Do I have any recourse if he tries to ticket me by saying that the law allows me to ride as far from the edge of the road as reasonably necessary?
It's the "reasonable" part that I want to manipulate cuz I think it's unreasonable to ask skinny tires to ride over glass. But can the cop define reasonable in his own way?
okay if i answered the poll and comment even though i don't have a road bike? (if not, please skip this post and remove a vote from #3)
i chose option 3 because i have mixed feelings about them depending on where they are, how they're maintained (if at all) and the auto factor that still plays a roll. they were fairly useless in NYC because people would still drive/park/take a dump in them. but they were helpful in creating a little extra space at times. the few i've seen here in SLC seem okay but i haven't used them enough to really say yay or nay.
i chose option 3 because i have mixed feelings about them depending on where they are, how they're maintained (if at all) and the auto factor that still plays a roll. they were fairly useless in NYC because people would still drive/park/take a dump in them. but they were helpful in creating a little extra space at times. the few i've seen here in SLC seem okay but i haven't used them enough to really say yay or nay.
The have a few of them down in the flatlands but up here in the mts we are lucky if there is pavement to the right of the fog line
I recently moved to Tumwater, WA and have found it to be the most bike friendly place I have ever lived in. Lots of clean, well maintained bike lanes and signs that say Share the Road and picture a road bike. I find that I am more likely to ride my bike for short errands living here than anywhere else. 
Only in Five Points, after dark.
tumwater, fun name for a town. cool about the bike friendliness too. washington state has many towns like that, doesn't it?I recently moved to Tumwater, WA and have found it to be the most bike friendly place I have ever lived in. Lots of clean, well maintained bike lanes and signs that say Share the Road and picture a road bike. I find that I am more likely to ride my bike for short errands living here than anywhere else.
i wonder what the most bike-friendly metropolis in the US is. anyone know?
i think i prefer dodging cars, peds and poo in a bike lane than trying to avoid an onslaught of broken glass. and if i were on skinnies i'd be pretty yioinked about a law that forced me to endure a flat (or five) every time out.
sometimes i wish local governments would be fined for not being bike friendly. including cleaning up the glass, making sure there's smooth pavement and ticketing drivers and litterers who violate the space.
lord opie, thank you! i'm grateful every single day and could care less about 3.2 beer.
i think Bend would rank up there
so which "Beer" is Tumwater famous forI recently moved to Tumwater, WA and have found it to be the most bike friendly place I have ever lived in. Lots of clean, well maintained bike lanes and signs that say Share the Road and picture a road bike. I find that I am more likely to ride my bike for short errands living here than anywhere else.
ah yes that beer drinkers delight Olympia Beer lol
Olympia beer is a thing of the past... the defunct brewery is about 3 miles from where I live now.
Olympia beer is a thing of the past... the defunct brewery is about 3 miles from where I live now.
there is a good reason for that too
In the entire state of CT I've seen 1 and it's about 1/4 mile long - it just ends - no warning just ENDS.
I think they'd be nice to have but I've never really seen a REAL one
I think they'd be nice to have but I've never really seen a REAL one
I agree, If they kept them clean and Maintained i would use them, but since they usually build up with a bunch of crap, i ride outside of them. Not to mention its usually about the roughest section of the road