Disclaimer: I bike on the road, or the cycle path if there is a sensible cycle path option.
However, I do wonder what the fuck our council are playing at with cycle paths.
We have ones that stop at ridiculous places so you can't actually safely get back on the road.
Ones that go down a fairly steep hill before propelling you into the bloody centre of a busy cross roads.
Ones that for reasons unknown are only three metres long - surely much safer staying on the road rather than swerving on and off the road?
Ones that start off as cycle paths but turn into the pavement at some indeterminate point. And never at a point with a lowered curb so you can safely get on the road.
One theyve 'stolen' from a local dog walking path. The path is not double width and, as it goes through a popular area for dog walking is naturally very much still in use by the dog walkers.
Which is fair enough - but it's a bloody bendy track, not particularly well lit and this makes fast bikes and extendable leads a worrying combination.
Still the route is advertised as a 'bike superhighway'....
So I reserve the right to use common sense when deciding whether to use a bike path or the road.
(although I do much prefer a nice smooth bike path which has been designed sensibly to the bloody potholes on the road!)