I propose Reading, Berkshire.
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Most Frightening towns to be a cyclist...
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Bradford.
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agree with meehaja.
especially Leeds Road.Posted 8 months ago # -
Bradford, but then they have amazing A&E so at least they have some plus points.
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I had my first ever meeting with a car yesterday.. bloody hell..
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Birmingham is pretty shite.
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did you take minutes or was it an informal meeting
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Edinburgh.
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It's rough out there, Ive been over more car bonnets than a cheap hooker.
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Kabul
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I don't ride in cities very much. I once went from Kings Cross to Camden for a canal based bike ride. That was ****kin scary (the Kings Cross bit, not the canal).
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I was going to say Reading before I clicked!
The centre of High Wycombe at rush hour ain't great either.
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Paris. Too busy looking at the niceness.......of which there is much right now!
Velib's not a patch on the Boris Bikes, mind you!
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Leeds road in Bradford was the only downhill part of my ride home for 18 months. Also the only part where I would never take my hands off the brakes!
Bradford may well have an amazing A&E, but since all of bradford are there to get their stubbed toes and 4 week colds sorted out it takes months to get seen.
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Baghdad.
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Got to be the A6 running in to Stockport from the Peak district. If the HGVs don't finish you off then the Nurses at "Stepping Hill" hospital will have you instead
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Blatantly stealing from cyclebiker above, Sirte has to be a pretty nasty town to ride in right now.
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Edinburgh is pretty bad on the roads, but there are hunners of ways to avoid the roads. And cycling is by far the quickest way to travel round the city.
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And cycling is by far the quickest way to travel round the city.
You mean it isn't quicker to go by tram?
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Man I am riding on the huge (at times) pavements.. the roads in Reading seriously freak me out. I'm a loooooooong time cyclist. I am not crap at it. A lot of avoidance now in my cycling..
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Kabul and Baghdad? You really think they're worse than Bradford?! Bradford is bad enough to be in in a car or as a pedestrian. It's a place where traffic lights, road markings and signs mean absolutely nothing. Plus it's a hole. A proper hole.
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CFH - I think I could mine the ore, build a smelter by hand, go to uni and learn how to design and build bikes, take a 5 year break and still arrive at Gogar before the first tram.
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without a doubt - from my experience - Naples
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How about Dundee? Just for the fact that it's Dundee and full of Dundonians.
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I don't ride in cities very much. I once went from Kings Cross to Camden for a canal based bike ride. That was ****kin scary
Me and a mate went to London just to cycle round the place. It was great. A proper rush.
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I generally find Edinburgh very easy to cycle in and pretty bikist friendly.
Monaco on the other hand was insane. Trucks fighting bikes for a bike sized gap and having to stop every 10 seconds for traffic, get clipped in then stop again was pretty crazy.
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Nowt wrong with Edinburgh for cycling in. Oldham though - that was a pain. I nominate Inverness, the city that indicators forgot.
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I'm always extra vigilant in London village on a Friday.
They all drive like nutters on a Friday!Had a couple of frightening experiences when I decided to explore Hampstead Heath too!
Is that a sausage? Posted 8 months ago # -
Venice can be a bit awkward.
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senor j, that's what happens when you venture North of the Parks....
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London town ...or wider, Surrey
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Rome has been the worst place for me, cycle commuter there for 6 months enjoying their rush hour traffic twice daily. Made coming back to manchester seem sedate, well apart from the weather. Had year in new york and that could be a bit lively in rush hour to.
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Another vote for Edinburgh here - the bus drivers seem unable to actually see cyclists - I've been forced onto the pavement every time I ride there - and, yes, I do know what I'm doing, I'm a cycle instructor.
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that's what happens when you venture North of the Parks...
Indeed.
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Sheffield, for two reasons:
1) tramlines,
2) everywhere is uphill, regardless of where it is,
3) the crappest road surfaces in the UK.Edinburgh is not far behind Sheffield in all of these respects.
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