You have sent some terrible bike lanes to our Facebook page recently. Here are the best/worst of a bad bunch.
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Over on our Facebook pages we’ve been asking you to send in pictures of cycle lanes but not ordinary so claims mind you more the unconventional and you certainly haven’t disappointed this there’s been cycle lanes from the strange to the bizarre to the baffling to the downright weird there’s been a
Lot of brilliant ones too and so just for you we have curated our top nine could have been top eleven but we’ve got it down to a nine could have it first up then we’ve got this beautiful side for lane in Spain which goes on forever through this lovely tunnel Dan that’s
Not a tunnel mate look it’s mural you need you need my specs on and it looks as if some people actually come to grief look at the marks they were they gone straight into it lethal well next up is this one from Malta and as you can see a rather inconvenient
Positioning of a pedestrian sign and with the narrow gauge of the pole quite easily a straight into as well not good now here’s one that we were sent from Malaysia which Tom musin would have no trouble clearing but for us mere mortals that could pose quite a problem yeah I
Mean some lovely paving work but aside from that the route that I think I’d have to take down too risky for me to bunnyhop I’d have to be a right and just about if I lifted my left crank up either side the full case and where’s your head all there yeah definitely well
Next up is this rather irregular cycle track and this has been posted in by Keith James and this is in Blackpool Dan what sort of bike would you need to negotiate such a ridiculous track as that was quite gnarly I would suggest possibly a phat vibe of extremely narrow
Fixie type handlebars and navigate around the side a good piece of advice but if you’re Danny MacAskill you could just ride on the curb straight past it to have any good skills now here’s a strange one from Bucharest now we understand at this town have been waiting for a psychopath but quite some
Time and then three came along at once gently but it’s difficult to say which came first the bus shelter or the path hmm this next one is from somewhere in the UK and at first glance actually looks like a pretty decent psychopath I love little picture by tall built with
Unusual geometry but with the strange sign there at least they’ve warned you about the signs they could get anyway good point we don’t actually know if that’s Benjamin winters sent in the next one from Chile and once again it looks like one suited for someone like Tom nursin
Or Danny MacAskill you definitely need a pretty good skill set to tackle this obstacle is absolutely ridiculous but let’s have a look at it a little bit more closely dan you’re approaching it speed what do you do do you swing left into the flow traffic you can’t do that
If you swing to the right into the grassy oh you’re risk hitting an animal cell rather or even a squirrel so I think what you need is to execute a perfect bunnyhop may be good as that next up we got this absolute classic from the Netherlands which we actually
Featured the dish in sure about a year ago but it’s a yeah ride that at your own risk perilously you have to keep your balance so that you don’t fall into a canal we shall finish with a second entry in the top nine for Bucharest look at that
Massive tree in the middle cycle pearl I know but what about that configuration you’ve got the arrow then it’s instructed to pick the kids up and then to ride up the tree with them I mean imagine being the person that painted all that incredibly now if you would
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He have tons of bike lanes here in Australia, but there are always cars parked on it no matter where you are, as the bike lane is also for parking.
Some of these in the US would make for a huge pay day for an cyclist
Saw two bike lanes from Bucharest, clicked the video
Number 1 didn't so a match color or people would have crash.
Ah stop complaining. Here in Pakistan, no one cycles apart from poor people or little kids. No one knows about bicycles. If you ask anyone about racing bikes, they will think about a MTB which shocks and gears 🙁 Worst of all, "bike" is a "motorbike" and "cycle" is a "bicycle".
I though its just in Brazil.
if you want to see bad bike lanes come to bakersfield and oildale they never clean up the broken beer bottle shrapnel laying around down around here from the drunk drivers throwing their bottles out the window
Bulmusta bunuyorlar amk
Wow. I've seen bike lanes in Mexico that easily beat any of these for being the worst.
Im from Malaysia and Bike lanes here are like so under maintained.
10. philippines
We dont have a lane for bikes/cycles in India.:(
There is a cycle path in Rhyl well a path that's divided into cycle and pedestrian and in the middle of cycle path is a bus stop and a sign saying stick to the cycle lain just before it. If i was to stick to said lain i would end up catching a bus hard lol.
In my country we don't have any bicycle lanes at all.
Bucharest bike paths are awsome
http://warringtoncyclecampaign.co.uk/facility-of-the-month
from Jakarta, Indonesia
https://jurnalindonesia.co.id/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/jalur-sepeda5.jpg
And we don't even have them
These bike lanes maybe bad but at least they're something. I am from LA were the car reigns supreme and the auto lobby is so powerful they would never allow a bike lane to take up their precious traffic lane
Atleast that country's have spaces, but we do not have any space in my country.
These are normal for Indian cyclists we are the best at this we have pipelines comming out a shop in between and ofcourse there are freakin slums built on them
Come to India guys. Cycle lanes suck ba**s. They are barely 100 m in length and have potholes on every 0.002827 mm intervals. And people take their motorcycles on the cycling lanes to avoid traffic.
What are you on about these are the best
Matt would have to do a cyclo cross manoeuvre over 3 😂
romania…you are not surprised, are you? 😀
lolol!
Ive been having a Vlog regards on our City's Bike lane much worst on that hehe… Im from the Philippines (San Fernando, Pampanga) dont hesitate to stop over on my Home. *Filipino content🤗 always ridesafe👌
In Italy there would be 0 bad bike lanes. Because there are 0 bike lanes.
Is there a top/best cyclist lanes video
Or maybe we are really really really EARLY!
Make a video of biking conditions in India to bring attention to authorities on their need to make roads safe for biking
Pedestrian:ride on the cycling track u moron
Me:
My brain hurts.
I would say, in my country there isnt a bike lane without a sign in the bike lane
1. Wile E. Coyote was here.
Number 1: It´s a trap from sociologists to catch cyclists and examen them when they are conciusnes.
Number 2: Isn´t it polite from Malta to warn cyclist so direct of a pedestrian crossing, isn´t it?
Number 3: As someone else wrote here in the comments: Best place to learn bunny hops. Isn´t it cool when you ride to work and back to have the opportunity training bunny hops?
Number 4: You need a verry tiny mountainbike or a flying one.
Number 5: A clever solved option to switch between bus and bycicle fast, isn´t it. So smart thus guys who planed this 😀
Number 6: The sign is a paied actor and the picture is a satire. A warning sign for signs is so dump, even here in Germany they haven´t had such a stupide idea (and belive me, the planers have lots of stupide ideas!)
Number 7: This is public ART! You´re such a philistine 😛
Number 8: A trainingpath for triatlon, bikeing, swimming and running
Number 9: Hmmmmm looks quite interesting, I love cyceling IN the nature ;D
we dont have bike lanes here in Indonesia
I think the arrow on the tree is sarcastic.
Try to verify my country philippines I thnik most worst bike lane in world
that last bike lane from Bucharest dosent have a tree in the way its just a 100% incline
The first one is a freaking Road Runner bike lane
Obviously, Britain has the worst biking lanes ever – everyone riding on the wrong side of the path…
you say not ordinary, but ordinary cycle lanes usually are terrible
I came to grief on a bike lane in South of France. Trip to hospital results showed 3 broken Ribs a fractured scapula. I hasten to add no any thing silly I had done. French council were out doing repairs a few days later. Spoilt our holidays, airlifted back to uk, caravan and car collected by Caravan and motorhomes club and returned to uk. All because of a bad stretch of cycle lane.
Number 4 seems to be anti-homeless measures to me
I laughed when I saw that one of the bike paths is from the Netherlands, because the Netherlands is supposed to have one of the best bike infrastructure.
The worst ones are the ones where they basically paint a bike in the road gutter and say "here, drive next to high-speed traffic; we'll treat you as a car as we don't know any other method of transport". Luckly, it's mostly contained in America.
You need to check bike lane in the Philippines its the most unsafe and waste of government fund project
The bikelane here results on more traffic because some of this installed in 2 lane road, exactly ON THE BUSY ROAD and the results is only 1.5 lane with heavy traffic 🤦
3:14 can't handle a 200% incline?
I'd love to see your take on manhattan new york, how would you handle those tough streets
Whem psychopaths make some cycle paths