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Why Are Roads Called Roads if Bicycles Can Go On Them?

If bicycles can go on roads then why aren't they called "bicycleroads"? It makes no sense to just call them "roads" and then allow bicycles on them.

And the white rectangular stripes that run down the middle? Have you noticed how they are roughly the same shape as a car when viewed from above? That's not a coincidence. That means that roads are for rectangular objects only, like cars and trucks.

Did you know that roads are made of bitumen, which is an oil product? This also makes it clear that, as it consumes oil products to make roads, anything that goes on the roads should also be consuming an oil product. Clearly, as bicycles do not consume oil products in operation, they do not belong on the roads, unlike cars and lorries.

No intelligent counterpoints, please - I shan't respond to those.
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  • RichardD1970
    RichardD1970 Posts: 3,796 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I drink extra virgin olive oil when cycling, can I use them?
  • brat
    brat Posts: 2,533 Forumite
    The roads are also called Carriageways - ways for cars...

    No bikes allowed!
    Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
  • Definitition of road

    wide way leading from one place to another, especially one with a specially prepared surface which vehicles can use

    Definition of vehicle

    a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, lorry, or cart.

    I take that to mean that a bike can use a road, far better than using a path in most circumstances.

    Why don't you sit back and think for a minute, every bike you see is one less car on the road, we would be far more in your way if we individually used cars instead of bikes.
    What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
  • brat wrote: »
    The roads are also called Carriageways - ways for cars...

    No bikes allowed!


    No, it's carriageways, as in "ger-owt-mi-way"...
    It's only numbers.
  • brat wrote: »
    The roads are also called Carriageways - ways for cars...

    No bikes allowed!

    No, they are for horse drawn carriages and stage coaches...
  • Rotor
    Rotor Posts: 1,049 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    Cats eyes !! Poor bast**ds
  • armyknife
    armyknife Posts: 596 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Technically they're highways, so only people with some heft to them and are off their face on narcotics should be allowed to use them.
  • Avoriaz
    Avoriaz Posts: 39,110 Forumite
    Because ROAD = Route Of Appalling Danger.
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,957 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Appaling or Appealing?

    Why do you need skydiving and freefall etc when a couple of laps of the M25 and trip into the Congestion zone is more dangerous?
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • kwmlondon
    kwmlondon Posts: 1,734 Forumite
    I will eat you with peanut butter you mother of a son of a mother son mother sun spout waving head nut bag of halva!

    Mad enough for ya?
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