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DISRESPECT -3

Continuiamo a segnalare gli abusi degli imbecilli sulle piste ciclabili, che non vengono mai rispettate. Oltre alla ciclabile, occupata a meta’ dal culo di quest’auto, da notare che l’infame e’ anche parcheggiato a livello della DISCESA del passo carrabile…

(la pista e’ quella di corso Traiano, Torino)

Moving blog

I started a new blog on wordpress - you can read my (seldom) cycling entries here: http://cyclingintown.wordpress.com/

I’m still trying to work out which is best of the two, I’ll be cross-posting for a while, to see if I can make up my mind…

Ride on!

sangano-pinerolo bike ride

Had a nice bike ride to Pinerolo, 20 km + return, large sections of cycle lane. I started off this morning at a leasurly pace, enjoying the early March sun warming up the air. I had a very thin-crust pizza in town, then made it back home, with a refreshing stop at Gelandro, the best ice-cream shop in the whole area. The ride was thoroughly enjoyable, had it not been for my rather sore bum I could have gone on another few hours.

I guess it's all a matter of saddle-training when you travel… admittedly the road was mainly flat, with no big hills to tackle, quite alright for my one-speed city bike. Anyway, I enjoyed my going so much that I want to do more of the same the coming weekends!

I saw a pretty large bicycle shop in Frossasco - I might go there to look for a decent TRAVEL bike sooner or later, when I finally get my head round to some serious bicycle travelling... something that always attracted me, but I never really got round to do.

no bike racks

In p. Castello there are NO bike racks. This town (Turin, Italy) is really appalling - it's very hard to find ANY bike racks near ANY public places, theatres, public buildings, museums, squares, restaurants, you do find SOME near schools and universities, but it's just a fraction of what's needed or what would stimulate the use of the bicycle - really sad for a town that 'prides' itself with being 'cycle friendly'. I'm afraid a cycle-hire scheme, although welcomed, is just NOT enough…

DISRESPECT -2

more idiots parking on the cycle lane without ANY consideration for the rightful users of the street. Let the plate be known so everybody can identify the moron!

DISRESPECT

I'm waiting to get into the garage...

via Pio VII, Torino, 23/05/12 H 5:16pm 

the parking space is not long enough...

via Pio VII, Torino, 24/05/12 H 5:06pm

and this one takes the prize! what better than parking directly on this empty lane!

c.so Traiano, Torino H 5:16pm