Leeds Liverpool Canal

[s_zigmond]

Don't forget to put a bell on your bike, your going to meet a lot of walkers and slow cyclists coming up from behind, so unless you want a walking stick wrapped round your head because you startled some old codger I would put one on. And remember theirs a 15mph speed limit and the Police have started laying traps :shock:

I have my air horn! will that do?
I tend to shout politely and then say thank you, but I can see 127miles of this getting very tireing on the vocal chords.

I only found out the other day that your meant to print off a licence for the tow path :?

Ive been riding it all my life and never realised

Are you being serious about the police and the speed limit?

 

[beagle]

I've ridden it from Leeds to Skipton on my fixed gear and it wasn't too bad. I am running 38c tyres though.

 

[barry2017]

Don't forget to put a bell on your bike, your going to meet a lot of walkers and slow cyclists coming up from behind, so unless you want a walking stick wrapped round your head because you startled some old codger I would put one on. And remember theirs a 15mph speed limit and the Police have started laying traps :shock:

I have my air horn! will that do?
I tend to shout politely and then say thank you, but I can see 127miles of this getting very tireing on the vocal chords.

I only found out the other day that your meant to print off a licence for the tow path :?

Ive been riding it all my life and never realised

Are you being serious about the police and the speed limit?

Please don't use an air horn. 100db horns scare people and livestock, they don't belong in the countryside. I can tell you as someone who lives on a boat all cyclists in general have a very bad reputation amongst other users of the network. Seriously.

There are quite a few groups who would like to see cycling banned on most towpaths, and the speed traps are a step towards that. With the ever-constant threat of privatisation of more of the network it really could happen, not in an inefficient, British Waterways way like the permits, but in a private company, security guard way. There's no right in law for cyclists to have access to towpaths.

Please don't give them the ammunition.

 

[s_zigmond]

I was joking bout using my air horn.

How can they ban cyclists from using what was built with the purpose of being used by horses?

 

[barry2017]

Bloody hell, I don't half come across as a pompous tw*t when I'm on here. I'm nothing like this if you actually meet me, you know.

As I understand it, towpaths have a special status; cyclists have been given the right to use towpaths on certain parts of the network, but it's not the same as their rights to use bridleways.

British Waterways, the division of DEFRA that manages most of the network, had an £8m cut last year, and are desperate to raise as much as they can get away with. It's quite a worrying time to live on a boat. :shock: