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    Posted: 11 Aug 2023 at 16:05
Is it just me?
Yesterday a short ride was had, 80 miles or so with a couple of mates to get a crab sandwich on the South Coast.
Double solid white lines have appeared all over the place, then of course the pot holes, gravel on corners... then there's the car drivers😡😡😡 if the limit is 40, they drive at 30, 30 = 20mph and so on... The double white lines and oncoming traffic stop any overtaking....and if you do take the risk, you are straight into the same situation again 😔.
Is it worth even going for a ride in the UK anymore during the summer?
Of course I know I could have got up at 5am and had the road to myself but today was mid week... or gone to Scotland, or West Wales... but that was a bit far to get a crab sandwich from Salisbury ....
As I say, is it just me, or do the rest of you find it ok?
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Me as well. Sadly, getting across to France on the bike is probably but a memory. I never go out at weekends as I'm fortunate in being able to get out mid week but what you describe is all too common here in the Midlands. I do know some less frequented local roads but they do tend to have tractors lurking round the bends.

I have to say that something else putting me off is the lunatics on sports bikes hitting the rev limiters all over the place.
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The 6047 that I ride often is no joy anymore. I can't remember the last time I was able to enjoy the twisties due to the increased traffic and don't mention tractors. To be honest I think roads are a lot more crowded now than a few years ago. 
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Crowded? Going to Germany in September lot of Krauts there LOL
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Hmm,English back country roads which are relatively traffic free are still to be found. Perhaps not near the south coast but certainly in rural Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. East Anglia, Yorkshire and Northumbria have miles of empty roads. Not as quiet as France or Spain where I have been riding over the last few weeks but still there, honest.
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Yes, and as the numbers and the size/power/speed levels go up so the standard of driving descends.
Are the two connected ?
IS IT ME ? (line stealer)
Or does driving a big vehicle give you the legal right to drive aggressively.
Or is it frustration of being delayed by the overblown obesity of their own vehicles that makes them so angry. 
And then some smart arsed motorised two wheeler goes whizzing past laughing.  ( that'll be me then.  )LOL
You'd think they'd learn and get a bike LOL.


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Well I'm lucky enough to live in rural mid Wales and there are plenty of quiet roads here. Of course some of the main trunk roads can get very busy especially with holiday traffic. Just spent three days touring around north Wales and Anglesey with a pal and away from the main resorts and trunk roads, still not too busy. I usually find the opposite problem though, I am observing the speed limit and riding at the speed limit where safe to do so (it's a limit - not a target) and everyone else seems to want to go 20-20 mph faster! Having said that, I am not sure what is going to happen next month when all 30mph roads with a system of street lighting are changed to 20mph in Wales. I ride some roads with a system of street lighting that are currently 30mph and I think to myself  "surely this could be 40/50 mph?". I dare say that the traffic 'planners/safety engineers ' have a reason.......
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probably they want to generate more income by taxing the traffic
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I ride all year round and I can not wait for October to March  I have favoured these months in the last 5 years . Everywhere I go I see more housing being built and car drivers not interested in driving .
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I think the most worrying part is all the new car ads showing all the infotainment technology built in as the most important sales feature.
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Originally posted by Brian UK Brian UK wrote:

I think the most worrying part is all the new car ads showing all the infotainment technology built in as the most important sales feature.
Quite true
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I rode from Gainsborough to East Kirkby yesterday for the Buell and Italian bike festival 
Outbound small roads and including a chunk of Caistor High Street was great
In bound included the A17 was pants due to the traffic unless you like filtering on a single carriage way road 
In Lincolnshire we're lucky to have some great roads if you get off the main ones. Henry Cole said as much the other day 
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Was there myself so I was. 
3 hours each way from London ezpz.

Remember when you mention traffic and congestion you ard part of the problem.

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Originally posted by Brian UK Brian UK wrote:

I think the most worrying part is all the new car ads showing all the infotainment technology built in as the most important sales feature.

In the not too distant future where gearboxes and the third pedal have disappeared altogether along with self driving technology (we already have many self parking cars and lane variation warnings) then maybe it will be the infotainment that becomes the best selling point.
Fortunately at my age I won`t be too concerned about all this as it`s likely that I will still not be able to afford an EV or the charges for my I.C.E vehicles to remain on the road, so walking and cycling look like the only options left OuchOuchOuch 

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Being a confirmed luddite I have absolutely no intention of buying an EV , let alone something that drives itself.. I know it's sacrilege but I used to actually enjoy driving.....  
As someone who worked in IT I learned not to buy anything described as "cutting edge", "the future" etc as in true Microsoft tradition you were in fact acting as unpaid testers with all the risk at your expense..  As far as I am concerned the same applies to new car technolgies, I will only buy once they've sorted them out properly...
There's also the fact that Govt are forcing us down this route, I recall being told diesel was the future too.....
Apologies, rant over...
It's the Balloon Fiesta here this weekend - I'm staying home, too many lost cars, campervans, caravans etc acting unpredictably  to risk going out on the bike.....
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