Comments on: Take the road or the bike path? http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/ Work is just something I do between bike rides Fri, 04 May 2012 07:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: martin http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/comment-page-1/#comment-4088 martin Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:01:43 +0000 http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/#comment-4088 <p>I ride to work on a bike path, prefer it over the road but the blind corners do bother me. Scared one day I will get caught out. Sometimes the blind corner could easily be fixed just be removing a couple of bushes.</p> I ride to work on a bike path, prefer it over the road but the blind corners do bother me. Scared one day I will get caught out. Sometimes the blind corner could easily be fixed just be removing a couple of bushes.

]]> By: Treadly and Me http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/comment-page-1/#comment-1518 Treadly and Me Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:36:37 +0000 http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/#comment-1518 <p>Gro-oan. "You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. <a href="http://www.rd.com/all-jokes.do" rel="nofollow">They've got a page</a> for people like you."</p> Gro-oan. “You should send that in to the Reader’s Digest. They’ve got a page for people like you.”

]]> By: hielke http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/comment-page-1/#comment-1519 hielke Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:29:58 +0000 http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/#comment-1519 <p>A piece of tarmac walks into a bar. He orders himself a cold one and spots a pretty piece of green asphalt sitting alone at a table. So he leans over to the barman and says: give her one more of whatever she is drinking. I would be careful if I were you mate, says the barman. She is a bit of a cycle-path.</p> A piece of tarmac walks into a bar. He orders himself a cold one and spots a pretty piece of green asphalt sitting alone at a table. So he leans over to the barman and says: give her one more of whatever she is drinking. I would be careful if I were you mate, says the barman. She is a bit of a cycle-path.

]]> By: Treadly and Me http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/comment-page-1/#comment-1520 Treadly and Me Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:37:07 +0000 http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/#comment-1520 <p>Well spotted eccles—all of the photos were taken along that section of the Scotchmans Creek Trail.</p> <p>Don't get me started on the Eastlink Trail—the stretch through the Mullum Mullum valley is 100% not a transport route: too windy, too hilly.</p> <p>I rarely ride the Eastern Freeway Trail for transport purposes, but I think some of it's OK and some of it is meandering and narrow. As I recall, there aren't too many blind corners (at least, compared to other trails) but Hamish is dead right about it being a bit more up and down than the adjacent freeway.</p> Well spotted eccles—all of the photos were taken along that section of the Scotchmans Creek Trail.

Don’t get me started on the Eastlink Trail—the stretch through the Mullum Mullum valley is 100% not a transport route: too windy, too hilly.

I rarely ride the Eastern Freeway Trail for transport purposes, but I think some of it’s OK and some of it is meandering and narrow. As I recall, there aren’t too many blind corners (at least, compared to other trails) but Hamish is dead right about it being a bit more up and down than the adjacent freeway.

]]> By: Hamish Moffatt http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/comment-page-1/#comment-1523 Hamish Moffatt Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:29:16 +0000 http://treadly.net/2009/03/02/take-the-road-or-the-bike-path/#comment-1523 <p>I just noticed something similar on my commute home yesterday, which is usually along the Eastern Freeway track, from Heidelberg to Mitcham. I need to go a bit out of the way to get on to the track safely. Instead I took safe roads all the way home, saved about 3.5km (18.5 versus 22) and had a higher average speed. Plus less danger from pedestrians, dogs and oncoming cyclists.</p> <p>The Eastern Freeway track meanders significantly compared to the freeway itself (particularly up and down). The Eastlink trail is even worse.</p> I just noticed something similar on my commute home yesterday, which is usually along the Eastern Freeway track, from Heidelberg to Mitcham. I need to go a bit out of the way to get on to the track safely. Instead I took safe roads all the way home, saved about 3.5km (18.5 versus 22) and had a higher average speed. Plus less danger from pedestrians, dogs and oncoming cyclists.

The Eastern Freeway track meanders significantly compared to the freeway itself (particularly up and down). The Eastlink trail is even worse.

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