Sweet! Bunny hop city! I would so nail it along there.

I'm glad I am not the only one who thinks it looks more fun now. Although the gnar canal route which causes you to nearly "fall in" sounds good too!

ditto, isnt the usual solution to this kind of problem to put steped barriers at either end of the alleyway.

what an exceptionally ugly solution.

:SLOW HANDCLAP:

Good place to take the bike to help tune the suspension i'd say.

They should only put the speed bumps half way across the alley from alternative sides. Gentle people can roll slowly and smoothly through them swaying from side to side while we can rip it up with slalom vs bunny hop races!

From the photo it looks like a case of very restricted visibility between cyclists and pedestrians entering this alley from either side due to the walls. Not surprised that people have been injured. They've even thought hard enough to put them at varying spacing to stop riders getting into some sort of rhythm.

Surely the local council's likely to be sued by more people on foot tripping over those things?

Yes and it doesn't look to be very well lit does it?

If people trip on them then they'd have to prove that the council had done something wrong in putting them there – under the Highways Act, Local Highway Authorities have a duty to take action to reduce the likelihood of accidents occuring, and I bet this was cheaper than removable barriers/gates.

I suspect that the Disability Discrimination Act might have something relevant to put up an argument against this installation.

I hope this isn't in a conservation area – it's so ugly!

i know i should but i couldn't resist looking…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215838/Council-installs-speed-bumps-residential-street-slow-CYCLISTS.html

The full-time mum-of-three added: 'It's not a bike path but they think it is. They're just a nuisance, they're not very considerate.

No, it's a ROAD with no car access, kids shouldn't be playing on the ROAD.

If the put the bumps too close together it could make bunny hopping them pretty tricky; how inconsiderate of them 🙁

bump

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man i crack myself up sometimes

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I feel slightly dirty for looking at that daily mail article, but reading one of the recent comments is quite funny:

– Nigel, Worthing… for the time being, 25/9/2009 13:09

He doesn't come on here does he?

i don't think you can really win as a cyclist. Go on the shared-use pavements and people say you go too quickly and its dangerous, cycle on the roads and people say you're too slow and hold the traffic up.

maybe i'll cycle at a magical 'just right' speed balancing on the edge of the curb inbetween the pavement and the road??

Cooool – who needs trail centres when the council builds local bike parks 😉

The third and fourth ones in are ripe for getting doubled up… If I lived there I would probably cause MORE trouble now they are there.