Olympic road race

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

I have ridden on some motorways, mainly by accident,

In Germany, when staying at a campsite, seemed to be a nice road surface, but was pulled up by a policeman with a stick on blue light Kojak style. Pretended I knew no German, so he tore me off a strip in English and sent me off at the next exit.

In Norway, through one of the tunnels that was restricted to cars only, so a sort of motorway!

In France on the way back to Calais late at night on the way back from Dunkerque to watch the tour prologue, and got misdirected by a French Police Officer onto the motorway No-one took any notice,

and also with Colin Davies on the way back from Grenoble, but turned back as it was very busy.

In UK, A102M to get to eastway when in a hurry, but only a short section, and the Limehouse Link tunnel, which is also a no-no for bikes, but was tucked in behind a cement lorry, so no-one saw me!!!!

Anyone remember Pete Adams - on the return from Brighton, he steamed straight on to the M23 at Pease Pottage

[-Adam-]

[quote="John, the old'un"]Haven't you noticed all the bl**dy cameras around there.

[Ian A4size]

When we were in Majorca a few years ago, a certain person, we shall call him the" bubble wrap kid"- decided to ride back to the airport from our base in Santa Plonka ( read too tight to pay a taxi),

welll after an hour or so of trying to find a sign to the airport- we are about 30k away- he happened upon a nice BLUE sign saying aeroport- jobs a good 'un- nice little pootle down the motorway, via the hard

shoulder !

[Grahame]

In some states in America it's legal to ride on the Interstate (hard) shoulder if there's no alternative.

On my New York to San Francisco tour, I used about 35 miles of I84 on the way across Idaho, and several sections of I70 on the way through the Rocky Mountains west of Denver. This included one memorable section about 5 miles east of Idaho Springs where the (uphill) sliproad joins the "Fast" lane just round a blind bend, leaving the pannier laden cyclist with 3 lanes of traffic to cross to get to the relative safety of the shoulder .

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

[quote="Grahame"]In some states in America it's legal to ride on the Interstate (hard) shoulder if there's no alternative.

On my New York to San Francisco tour, I used about 35 miles of I84 on the way across Idaho, and several sections of I70 on the way through the Rocky Mountains west of Denver. This included one memorable section about 5 miles east of Idaho Springs where the (uphill) sliproad joins the "Fast" lane just round a blind bend, leaving the pannier laden cyclist with 3 lanes of traffic to cross to get to the relative safety of the shoulder .

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

[quote="richv"]I know of 1 rider who ended up on the A1(M) after failing to take the exit for the turn on one of the F1 courses. It wasn't PVT of course who has a finely honed strategy to make sure that he doesn't make that mistake