Okay, a break from my rantings and musings over my amateur experience of riding a bicycle. Yet, I’ve been considering a few more things recently.
As one who has only just recently started cycling, I’ve noticed a few things in this area:
- I tend to cycle only on the day that I notice the sun is out. That means I’m very likely not to go cycling when it’s even cloudy, for fear of it raining afterwards.
- I’ve been avoiding hilly areas - note the first trip I made: I specifically drove to Puriri Dr, where it’s completely flat. When I start to approach even a downhill slope I’m weary of taking that route, because I think of having to tackle the upward slope on the way back - and that puts me off. I've considered cycling down towards Dominion Rd, but always think about how I'd have to come back up that horrendous hill.
- I’m keeping to small streets. Don’t get me wrong, I would like to try all different streets but big streets intimidate me with their busyness, and are another limitation to me going somewhere by bike. It doesn’t help that I live at the corner of two main streets, but that just leads me to cycle at the weirdest times just to avoid traffic (e.g. 7:30am on a Sunday).
- To add on to the previous point, I’m always scared of being in the way and tail-gated by cars or, even worse, buses. That would probably put me off cycling for ever. That, or being wedged in between a parked car with the door open and another, moving, car.
These points may be helpful to refer to when it comes to determining the factors that prevent people from (wanting to) cycling in Auckland...
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