Originally Posted by
alcjphil
So you assume that people in Rome who commute choose unsafe routes? What about that other 10% of rides? There might be something there.
Originally Posted by
Iride01
For certain the OP doesn't like my injection of jocularity into his thread. Or maybe I'm the one misunderstanding.
I've often used ride maps to help me pick a route. I don't pick based on the number of people that ride that route. I pick it because it matches the type of ride I want to with the elevation gain/loss and yes, how secure I might feel riding that route.
I guess the post should have stated that no one is to respond unless they have been to Rome and know of a route.
have you ever lived in a Big city ?? people would commute, yeah they have a lot of red lights on the way, they usually go at 20km/h if not less. Yeah sure they use cycling lanes with people walking on it and stuff. I never said it wasn't secure, I just said it's impossible to go fast and to be secure.
i'm talking about real routes, where you can do a 2/3-hour ride going at 35km/h without having to break every minute because someone might go on my way or because of a red light.
there is a huge difference between commuting and doing real cycling
there are 2.7 millions ppl in Rome, so i don't think it was that idiotic to try to reach a Roman here ?