#8 Netherlands 2:50 This is not a cycle lane, but it prohibits bicycle parking, like a yellow line on the curb prohibits motor vehicles to park next to the curb.
Yes-and knocked himself stupid trying to run through after the Roadrunner. He got to his feet, only to get knocked flat when the Roadrunner ran back through the other way.
the one from the netherlands wasn't actually a bike path, it was just a laugh by some guy. the netherlands has letterly the best bike lanes in the world
Hi! I'm from the city #7 came from, it's impossible that you'd hit any critter by going into the grass. This is a desert area, so no squirrels, no rabbits, no nothing (okay, doves, but those are usually fast enough at taking flight). That "bike path" was very criticized, authorities later said it really was 'a jogging path' (not that it makes any more sense, I think they were just trying to cover their ridiculousness). I was very surprised to see my city up there, we sure have a lot to go in cycling infrastructure lol
That's barely enough for a small town......The Dutch gave spent around a quarter of their entire road transport budget on bike infra since the 1970's. I would expect investment for Denver alone to run into multi billions to make a real difference.
+reluminca Yeah! Too bad that they didn't had pictures from Timisoara - the city with the worst cycling lanes in the World. I think that the city is the proud owner of a stupidity Trophy!
Bucharest have another minimum 7 most worst bike lanes ... not only 2; and the number increase monthly (and daily on election period) ... but is fun to see how ingenious are the constructors :)
There are way worse in Malta than that number 2. Try hitting a sign pole from one side of the body, stone wall from the other, plus thick long thorn branches hitting your upper body. Very painful. Oh, and a friend of mine (who got hit by a car) got told by a police officer that he can't ride bicycle on the road... or on the pavement... or anywhere else really. Not sure where he learned his traffic legislation but it's a true story.
+trdi Just spent the last month recovering from one of those posts. 4k in to riding a brand new bike I'd just picked up from Hal-Far. Turned to check traffic in the process pulled to the left as did, just enough for a 1/4" of my handle bar to catch the sign. shredded the back of my left hand as I landed. :(
I live in Bucharest, and can confirm the horrors. Whereas the other entries can be considered exceptions of otherwise perfectly usable cycle lanes; just about all of the ones in Bucharest are more frustrating to navigate than the busy 5 o'clock traffic.
I came to grief on a bike lane in South of France. Trip to hospital results showed 3 broken Ribs a fractured scapula. I hasten to add no any thing silly I had done. French council were out doing repairs a few days later. Spoilt our holidays, airlifted back to uk, caravan and car collected by Caravan and motorhomes club and returned to uk. All because of a bad stretch of cycle lane.
I recognise #7. It's my old home town Antofagasta a mining town in Northern Chile. I'm amazed that they bother having a cycle path. it's an "exciting" place to ride, dodging huge mining trucks!
There is a cycle lane in my town that goes from the centre roundabout to sainsburys, but its only accessible if your going from sainsbury's because if your going to sainsburys from the road you have to go around the one way and either carry on being on the road or violently swerve right to mount the kerb for the "lane" which is just the pavement with bicycle parkings all over the road every so often.
Have you heard about the cycle and bus lanes proposed along Oxford Road in Manchester? The design for the cycle bypass around the bus bays helps cyclists feel safer, as they don't have to cross in front of stopped buses. It's genius, and we should be implementing that bus+bike street design everywhere, from Leeds to Bucharest and beyond! (Even if the street isn't closed off to general traffic, the design is applicable to anywhere where a street is to receive both bus lanes and bike lanes). Another similar scenario is in the States, in San Francisco. There, they had street-running light rail and bike lanes, with practically the same design as along Oxford Road in Manchester!
Pretty soon someone will catch Peter Sagan navigating some of these bike paths and all the pundits will exclaim the excellence of his bike handling skills
my bike path yesterday morning consisted of tons of broken glass bottles, a freshly turned inside-out cat, bunch of coconuts, serpentine belt, clip board, box of lightbulbs, a presumably used condom, milk jug, tree branch, a shoe, multiple sets of earbud headphones, and a hamburger with what looked to have one bite taken out.
you should check out the bike lanes in Pune , India ... you'll have motorists , pedestrians and sometimes even vegetable vendors on 'em . Good luck riding on that XD
These bike lanes maybe bad but at least they're something. I am from LA were the car reigns supreme and the auto lobby is so powerful they would never allow a bike lane to take up their precious traffic lane
torqueback I started cycling more seriously about a year ago but have found that i get bored of the same roads. At first i loved exploring and discovering new roads, especially country lanes and now i have been cycling for a while, i have lost that feeling of exploring new places. I have tried to experiment with different routes but recently i have noticed that i have been on all the roads suitable for cycling near my area several times already. How can i be less bored on the bike and less bored with using the same roads (without going on an expensive training camp)?
Where I live most of the cycle lanes don't meet up, but they've added a new one between the longest one in town, and the university just outside of town. For reasons I cannot fathom, the new cycle lane (the middle section) indicates for the cyclists to go on the right rather than on the left. Where this ends, is at a bend just outside the university gates, which makes for some interesting interactions between the inbound and outbound traffic. Still haven't got an answer from council as to why the lane is set up as if it's in mainland Europe. Perhaps they did blindly copy it from the Netherlands, forgetting to switch it for left hand riding.
The worst ones are the ones where they basically paint a bike in the road gutter and say "here, drive next to high-speed traffic; we'll treat you as a car as we don't know any other method of transport". Luckly, it's mostly contained in America.
Don't know if I'm proud... But at least you showed one of my favourite places to ride in my city, Antofagasta, Chile... And that is not the only ridiculous part of our cycling lanes😐
I laughed when I saw that one of the bike paths is from the Netherlands, because the Netherlands is supposed to have one of the best bike infrastructure.
Protruding pipes, raise pavement blocks and other strange in the way fixtures suggest the bike paths came in later as an afterthought. Such infrastructure fixtures rarely can be moved but you can paint bright reflective paint on them to stand out. Also provide an alternative mini detour around such navigational hazards. In every case the poor lanes are a symptom of a poor insular city administration who have to pander to the automotive driving public at any cost.
When you hear Matt Stephens talking about clipping out in order to get around a pipe in the middle of the path. You know you need a sign warning other cyclists
The shot of the bike path going through a bus stop is from Sofia, Bulgaria, not Bucharest (along with other mess-ups in the link): insurance.profit.bg/news/Sofijskite-veloalei-poluchiha-svetovna-slava/nid-107569.html It's been all over the news, referring to Sofia's extremely bad "utilizing" EU funds for bike integration to traffic. That sort of bike paths are currently being boycotted all over the country, because a lot of millions were spent in unusable infrastructure and people actually have the will to get into cycling/commuting by bike.
I don't think Matt would survive number 7. We know from his attempts at a bunnyhop jumping isn't possible and if he went right he'd run the risk of hitting a log therefore he has to swerve onto the road.
Number 1: It´s a trap from sociologists to catch cyclists and examen them when they are conciusnes. Number 2: Isn´t it polite from Malta to warn cyclist so direct of a pedestrian crossing, isn´t it? Number 3: As someone else wrote here in the comments: Best place to learn bunny hops. Isn´t it cool when you ride to work and back to have the opportunity training bunny hops? Number 4: You need a verry tiny mountainbike or a flying one. Number 5: A clever solved option to switch between bus and bycicle fast, isn´t it. So smart thus guys who planed this :D Number 6: The sign is a paied actor and the picture is a satire. A warning sign for signs is so dump, even here in Germany they haven´t had such a stupide idea (and belive me, the planers have lots of stupide ideas!) Number 7: This is public ART! You´re such a philistine :P Number 8: A trainingpath for triatlon, bikeing, swimming and running Number 9: Hmmmmm looks quite interesting, I love cyceling IN the nature ;D
On a similar and rather funny note, has anyone at GCN seen the bicycle drawings (and 3-D renderings) reproduced on Wired.com? Wired got the article from Velocipedia (www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html). he short story is that a number of people were asked to draw a bicycle from memory, and the best (meaning most ridiculous and funniest) were rendered in Adobe to look like real bikes. There is a bike there for Matt (it has no pedals so you never have to worry about clipping in), a bike for Lasty (the front fork is welded to the top tube so he never has to worry about weaving up those Basque mountains). Its worth a look. I'm still laughing. :-)
#8 Netherlands 2:50
This is not a cycle lane, but it prohibits bicycle parking, like a yellow line on the curb prohibits motor vehicles to park next to the curb.
I love the wall mural. Did the "coyote" do that to catch the RoadRunner ?
haha! funny comment!
haaaa
Yes-and knocked himself stupid trying to run through after the Roadrunner. He got to his feet, only to get knocked flat when the Roadrunner ran back through the other way.
No he did it to catch the RoadBiker
the one from the netherlands wasn't actually a bike path, it was just a laugh by some guy. the netherlands has letterly the best bike lanes in the world
laurens goossens you literally mean "literally"
Hi! I'm from the city #7 came from, it's impossible that you'd hit any critter by going into the grass. This is a desert area, so no squirrels, no rabbits, no nothing (okay, doves, but those are usually fast enough at taking flight). That "bike path" was very criticized, authorities later said it really was 'a jogging path' (not that it makes any more sense, I think they were just trying to cover their ridiculousness). I was very surprised to see my city up there, we sure have a lot to go in cycling infrastructure lol
Here in Colorado they plan to invest $100 million to make it the most bike friendly state in the US. Good cycling and legal weed, I can't complain.
awesome
So just like Amsterdam then?
That's barely enough for a small town......The Dutch gave spent around a quarter of their entire road transport budget on bike infra since the 1970's. I would expect investment for Denver alone to run into multi billions to make a real difference.
Matt could clear the pipe. Its not a wooden log.
Number 9 is a Squirrel bike line, hence, the arrow up the three!
Malaysia. The best place to learn bunny hopping.
Muhamad Azfar you kind of have no choice
Ivan Lunev Potholes everywhere.
A place to learn clipping and unclipping too. Cars park everywhere and came out from nowhere. #BANGGAJADIANAKMALAYSIA lol
Ha, try indonesia, we can't even get sidewalks right.
Oh no a concrete block. We cant go under it, we cant go over it. We'll have to go through it. Uh oh!!!
2 out of 9 from Bucharest! Extend to entire Romania and you'll be needing 90 nominees 😊
+reluminca Yeah! Too bad that they didn't had pictures from Timisoara - the city with the worst cycling lanes in the World. I think that the city is the proud owner of a stupidity Trophy!
+calinutzzz send picures to us on Facebook and we'll include them in part 2.
Bucharest have another minimum 7 most worst bike lanes ... not only 2; and the number increase monthly (and daily on election period) ... but is fun to see how ingenious are the constructors :)
The geometry in number 6 means "Give Way", meaning stop if a car is coming from either side and go when it's safe again.
Those are awesome. I have a few pics of ones that make no sense either, but I think these are pretty top notch.
There are way worse in Malta than that number 2. Try hitting a sign pole from one side of the body, stone wall from the other, plus thick long thorn branches hitting your upper body. Very painful. Oh, and a friend of mine (who got hit by a car) got told by a police officer that he can't ride bicycle on the road... or on the pavement... or anywhere else really. Not sure where he learned his traffic legislation but it's a true story.
+trdi we need picture evidence! You can send us photos on Facebook.
+trdi Just spent the last month recovering from one of those posts. 4k in to riding a brand new bike I'd just picked up from Hal-Far. Turned to check traffic in the process pulled to the left as did, just enough for a 1/4" of my handle bar to catch the sign. shredded the back of my left hand as I landed. :(
No.9 is for Squirrels
TTF. Technical Terrain Features. Embrace them and broaden your skill set. The manual pad from Chile looked super fun.
I live in Bucharest, and can confirm the horrors. Whereas the other entries can be considered exceptions of otherwise perfectly usable cycle lanes; just about all of the ones in Bucharest are more frustrating to navigate than the busy 5 o'clock traffic.
+patriotbarrow Ditto. If you cycled in Bucharest, you pretty much have done it all.
Saw two bike lanes from Bucharest, clicked the video
I came to grief on a bike lane in South of France. Trip to hospital results showed 3 broken Ribs a fractured scapula. I hasten to add no any thing silly I had done. French council were out doing repairs a few days later. Spoilt our holidays, airlifted back to uk, caravan and car collected by Caravan and motorhomes club and returned to uk. All because of a bad stretch of cycle lane.
That was the Blackpool Paris-Roubaix training course. It was either that or build a velodrome and the pave section won out.
And I thought the bike lanes were bad here!
"I was sad because I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet."
No. 4 was made for Neil... he had a bike lane made for fat bikes.
I recognise #7. It's my old home town Antofagasta a mining town in Northern Chile. I'm amazed that they bother having a cycle path. it's an "exciting" place to ride, dodging huge mining trucks!
There is a cycle lane in my town that goes from the centre roundabout to sainsburys, but its only accessible if your going from sainsbury's because if your going to sainsburys from the road you have to go around the one way and either carry on being on the road or violently swerve right to mount the kerb for the "lane" which is just the pavement with bicycle parkings all over the road every so often.
Have you heard about the cycle and bus lanes proposed along Oxford Road in Manchester? The design for the cycle bypass around the bus bays helps cyclists feel safer, as they don't have to cross in front of stopped buses. It's genius, and we should be implementing that bus+bike street design everywhere, from Leeds to Bucharest and beyond! (Even if the street isn't closed off to general traffic, the design is applicable to anywhere where a street is to receive both bus lanes and bike lanes). Another similar scenario is in the States, in San Francisco. There, they had street-running light rail and bike lanes, with practically the same design as along Oxford Road in Manchester!
Pretty soon someone will catch Peter Sagan navigating some of these bike paths and all the pundits will exclaim the excellence of his bike handling skills
That last one, barking mad
+rikkiola Really makes you root for better cycling infrastructure.
+slimjimihendrix How could they leaf it in that state?
rikkiola I really can knot believe it.
+slimjimihendrix I agree, some cyclists won't even twig it's there
rikkiola
If you're running out of tree puns, feel free to branch out to other flora.
I literally live 200 yards away from the Blackpool one and didn't even realise it! MAD!
my bike path yesterday morning consisted of tons of broken glass bottles, a freshly turned inside-out cat, bunch of coconuts, serpentine belt, clip board, box of lightbulbs, a presumably used condom, milk jug, tree branch, a shoe, multiple sets of earbud headphones, and a hamburger with what looked to have one bite taken out.
you should check out the bike lanes in Pune , India ... you'll have motorists , pedestrians and sometimes even vegetable vendors on 'em . Good luck riding on that XD
These bike lanes maybe bad but at least they're something. I am from LA were the car reigns supreme and the auto lobby is so powerful they would never allow a bike lane to take up their precious traffic lane
that last bike lane from Bucharest dosent have a tree in the way its just a 100% incline
The way matt explains what would he do in no.3 is great. I mean, he's so (log)ical!
You guys should see bike lanes in Bogotá, at least lanes from the list aren´t a "lunar trail" for DH bikes!
I'd love to see your take on manhattan new york, how would you handle those tough streets
torqueback
I started cycling more seriously about a year ago but have found that i get bored of the same roads. At first i loved exploring and discovering new roads, especially country lanes and now i have been cycling for a while, i have lost that feeling of exploring new places. I have tried to experiment with different routes but recently i have noticed that i have been on all the roads suitable for cycling near my area several times already. How can i be less bored on the bike and less bored with using the same roads (without going on an expensive training camp)?
chileans&malaysians are widely known for their outrageous bunny hop skillz! I've seen 70year old locals manualing over that concrete block.
I found one here in the Philippines with two poles on the left and the right which prevents wide bars and even dropbars
I recently got a new hair cut, and I mounded it after Dans hair, I'm now thinking about joining the Cervelo team!
Where I live most of the cycle lanes don't meet up, but they've added a new one between the longest one in town, and the university just outside of town.
For reasons I cannot fathom, the new cycle lane (the middle section) indicates for the cyclists to go on the right rather than on the left. Where this ends, is at a bend just outside the university gates, which makes for some interesting interactions between the inbound and outbound traffic. Still haven't got an answer from council as to why the lane is set up as if it's in mainland Europe. Perhaps they did blindly copy it from the Netherlands, forgetting to switch it for left hand riding.
The worst ones are the ones where they basically paint a bike in the road gutter and say "here, drive next to high-speed traffic; we'll treat you as a car as we don't know any other method of transport". Luckly, it's mostly contained in America.
Is there a part 2 yet of this???
There are quite a few ones here in São Paulo I'd like to show you guys. As well as possibly the worst velodrome in the world.
The arrow up the tree had me dying over here!
+repairdrive Trust me when I say some sarcastic bucharestian painted the arrow on the tree ;)
You guys should have a look in the cycles lanes in Brazil... couple of them would easily make to the top of this list =D
He have tons of bike lanes here in Australia, but there are always cars parked on it no matter where you are, as the bike lane is also for parking.
No.6 is Peterborough and yes, it's genuine.
Your guys vids as of late have been missing the video links. At least I don't see anything when annotations are turned off.
You literally can make a whole video of '9 Worst Bike Lanes' if you only come to film this episode in Malta.
Thank you - that made me chuckle !
In Chile's trail, Matt doesn't risk hitting a squirrel, but a log.
Local to Blackpool here, that sign is to warn car drivers of a cycle path up ahead.
That's the most hilarious GCN video of all time
Is there a top/best cyclist lanes video
Or maybe we are really really really EARLY!
One short trip to Seattle in the USA would have easily upped this list to 10.
Don't know if I'm proud... But at least you showed one of my favourite places to ride in my city, Antofagasta, Chile... And that is not the only ridiculous part of our cycling lanes😐
Where are bike lanes from Hungary?!?! :D
+Malki961 send us some on facebook and we'll put them in part 2.
+Global Cycling Network allright,thanks :)
Send all bike lane. :D
Körmedi és szombathelyi pont elég volt szerintem :D
You have bikelanes in Hungary? Ohhhh cool ;D
I ever thought Hungary is such a poor country?
*caution, satire!
While we only have about 4 km of proper bicycle path in our city, you could probably make a top 10 worst bike lanes of Bucharest. It's that bad
+costin125 send us some photos on Facebook!
People in Qatar have been driving land cruisers on top of Bike Lanes.
Surprised Neil Donoghue didn't show up when Daniel mentioned a fat bike.
At least they have cycling routes. Justin,Texas don't have any...
Viva Chile! jajajajja
I laughed when I saw that one of the bike paths is from the Netherlands, because the Netherlands is supposed to have one of the best bike infrastructure.
For the most part, they do!
Yes, that means you shouldn't park there. Road signage varies by country.
Protruding pipes, raise pavement blocks and other strange in the way fixtures suggest the bike paths came in later as an afterthought. Such infrastructure fixtures rarely can be moved but you can paint bright reflective paint on them to stand out. Also provide an alternative mini detour around such navigational hazards. In every case the poor lanes are a symptom of a poor insular city administration who have to pander to the automotive driving public at any cost.
Im from the Chile, the city with that lane (antofagasta) and i can tell that is not worst part of that lane, we preffer sharing the road with cars
#3 in Malasia- Aren't those chainring gashes on the top of the pipe. Sure hope that's not a gas line.....
It's Los Angeles where it's always time for a new fad, I think a single speed-fat-bike-with-fixie-messenger-bars race is already starting up.
Make a video of biking conditions in India to bring attention to authorities on their need to make roads safe for biking
I would love to get to meet you guys! I'm planning on cycling from sea to sea across the us. i would love if i could ride with you guys
1'58": "And at first glance, it actually looks like a pretty decent psychopath."
lol.
Surprised that Matt would have chosen to go to the right because of the sticks and logs 1:11
Wonder how Matt would tackle that massive log on #9.
When you hear Matt Stephens talking about clipping out in order to get around a pipe in the middle of the path. You know you need a sign warning other cyclists
The shot of the bike path going through a bus stop is from Sofia, Bulgaria, not Bucharest (along with other mess-ups in the link): insurance.profit.bg/news/Sofijskite-veloalei-poluchiha-svetovna-slava/nid-107569.html
It's been all over the news, referring to Sofia's extremely bad "utilizing" EU funds for bike integration to traffic. That sort of bike paths are currently being boycotted all over the country, because a lot of millions were spent in unusable infrastructure and people actually have the will to get into cycling/commuting by bike.
At least they have Bike Lanes.. some places don't have it at all..
I don't think Matt would survive number 7. We know from his attempts at a bunnyhop jumping isn't possible and if he went right he'd run the risk of hitting a log therefore he has to swerve onto the road.
nice channel i subscribed im only 13 and started to get into cycling
Number 1: It´s a trap from sociologists to catch cyclists and examen them when they are conciusnes.
Number 2: Isn´t it polite from Malta to warn cyclist so direct of a pedestrian crossing, isn´t it?
Number 3: As someone else wrote here in the comments: Best place to learn bunny hops. Isn´t it cool when you ride to work and back to have the opportunity training bunny hops?
Number 4: You need a verry tiny mountainbike or a flying one.
Number 5: A clever solved option to switch between bus and bycicle fast, isn´t it. So smart thus guys who planed this :D
Number 6: The sign is a paied actor and the picture is a satire. A warning sign for signs is so dump, even here in Germany they haven´t had such a stupide idea (and belive me, the planers have lots of stupide ideas!)
Number 7: This is public ART! You´re such a philistine :P
Number 8: A trainingpath for triatlon, bikeing, swimming and running
Number 9: Hmmmmm looks quite interesting, I love cyceling IN the nature ;D
Man, the Philippines could have easily made this list. Easily. Could we still send pictures? :D
+alfred forbile yes of course Alfred, send us pictures through a message on facebook.
I would say, in my country there isnt a bike lane without a sign in the bike lane
Matt's line in malaysia just won't work, not with that log waiting for him just off to the right
You should check out Hong Kong cycling path.
New Mastersounds! yes!
In Lyndonville, VT the bike lanes look like the gutters, because they are the gutters, but there are tons of signs telling cyclists to ride there.
I've seen some in Chile that are worse than that....
Im from Malaysia and Bike lanes here are like so under maintained.
also in Malta on the coast road the cycle lane disappears into the pavement and after a while reappears again s feral times
Mat would have to make sure he doesn't go on to the grass in the Malaysian bike path, he might just meet a stick and crash anyway
i feel bad for my country, we dont even have proper sidewalk here
1:30 This is less a "track for bike" than a "road not for bikes". Meaning they let a very little place for bikes. Probably a pro cars mayor.
In my country we don't have any bicycle lanes at all.
That Spanish mural is of a Santa hat, not a bike lane :)
On a similar and rather funny note, has anyone at GCN seen the bicycle drawings (and 3-D renderings) reproduced on Wired.com? Wired got the article from Velocipedia (www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html).
he short story is that a number of people were asked to draw a bicycle from memory, and the best (meaning most ridiculous and funniest) were rendered in Adobe to look like real bikes. There is a bike there for Matt (it has no pedals so you never have to worry about clipping in), a bike for Lasty (the front fork is welded to the top tube so he never has to worry about weaving up those Basque mountains).
Its worth a look. I'm still laughing. :-)
What's that noise in the background?...ahhh it's the bottom of the barrel being scraped you say..I see.
Wow. I've seen bike lanes in Mexico that easily beat any of these for being the worst.
Hi GCN,did you guys watch casey Neistat's video on Bike lanes in New York City?
+Malcolm Tan no, we haven't seen that.
Finland doesn't even have bike lanes so i guess that's even worse.
we dont have bike lanes here in Indonesia
Nr 8 in the Netherlands is not a bicycle lane, it is forbidden to park your bike.
its much worse on our place - there is NO bikelanes!