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M62 motorway Calderdale by Mark Evison.jpgWrong way motorway cyclist lives to tell the tale
The list of those spotted and sometimes convicted of doing things they shouldn’t on Britain’s motorway network is extensive and bizarre.
Who can forget the Kenyan cyclists caught going for a training ride on the M61 before the Manchester Commonwealth Games back in 2002? Or those with longer memories may even recall their trailblazing fellow African sportsmen who went for a training run on a motorway near Sheffield while preparing for the 1991 World Student Games.
Today we can add an as yet, and probably never-to-be, indentified cyclist who was spotted during the late afternoon rush hour on Wednesday, pootling along the hard shoulder in the opposite direction to the traffic flow on a busy stretch of the M62 near Brighouse in West Yorkshire.
Alarmed motorists called the police but the rider who exited the motorway at the Junction 25 westbound interchange at Clifton, made good his escape and lives to ride another day.
Latest Comments
- Grahamd 24 min 11 sec ago
The absurdity of it deepens when you realise that those points were acquired by the age of 26.
- ktache 33 min 26 sec ago
They've gone crazy over the past month.
- David9694 1 hour 58 min ago
BAM!
- IanGlasgow 2 hours 34 min ago
"Polartec Power Shield RPM fabric – which has a 10,000mm hydro head to keep wet weather out, and an industry-leading breathability spec of 30,000g...
- mdavidford 3 hours 37 min ago
Oxfordshire councils are quite capable of letting you down too!...
- lesterama 3 hours 40 min ago
Why not have a 5mph speed limit as part of the ETRO? Only a dick would ride fast through an otherwise pedestrianised street.
- levestane 3 hours 52 min ago
'each spoke' (single) and 'leaf spring' (made of many leaves) seems contradictory.
- PenLaw 4 hours 43 min ago
I guess Morrissey could claim it.
- wtjs 5 hours 9 min ago
I do see a lot of delivery riders (on illegal e-motorbikes) with their faces covered...
- David9694 5 hours 49 min ago
Stuff like this seems more relevant than ever after the Trump victory. sorry not a funny
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Riding on the hard shoulder of a motorway you're probably further away from the traffic, have far greater visibility, and at far less at risk of collision than on many of the roads with bike lanes or that are signed as "preferred cycling routes". I know I ended up by accident on short stretches of freeway once or twice while touring, side roads shown on the map just vanished, I took a chance and rode along the freeway/motorway/autovia. Noisy, illegal, but not dangerous.
A3 (70mph and no hard shoulder) - Legal to cycle on the road................M61(70mph, hard shoulder and wider lanes that the A road)- Not legal. Where's the sense?
Further: Small country lanes (60mph and no visibility).
I still wouldn't ride on either the A road or motorway but country lanes????
I've never seen a cyclist on a motorway yet, but I did see a cyclist on the A4174 dual carriageway, cycling on the wrong carriageway, in the wrong direction near the central reservation. Either daft, stupid or both, but you wouldn't walk or drive that way, so why cycle?
I rode 110km today and about half of it was along a motorway.
I know it is against the law in the UK but I don't really see the problem.
A few years ago I was driving back from Gatwick Airport along the M23. As I crossed the flyover crossing the M25, I spotted a cyclist riding along the hard shoulder of the M23 in the other direction. He was on a cheap mountain bike (funny how even a quick glance could tell me that) carrying a large back attached to his bars that hampered his steering and was about to cross the slip road from the M25 to the M23, an incredibly busy bit of road. I didn't have a mobile phone with me or a passenger sitting alongside me to use it and wasn't able to call the police. I hope someone did.