General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

Those shallow ramps are something else, too. If you don’t get guided off into traffic when you hit them, you get to enjoy wiping out when they force your wheel to the left violently*.

They should be straight-on...

* - yep, I know, you should be holding onto the handlebars firmly at times like this and give a quick, forceful counter-steer to mitigate the impact. And I’m guessing 10% of cyclists know how to do this, so that’s piss-poor to design like that

Another good, and clearly objective, point. Your technique should be for locations where it is needed, such as a straight road crossing a railway track at a shallow angle that was determined by decisions made in the 1880s. It shouldn’t be needed in locations where shallow angle obstacles have been introduced for no good reason. This is sort of like the UW E5 entrance ramp, which I consider an accessibility fail even though wheelchairs can in fact get into the building using the ramp.