Cyclists don't use the cycle lanes 

They need to get a street sweeper up that cycle lane on Wallacewell Road. That's the sort of thing that stops me using a dedicated lane and just use the main road.

Cycled that road almost everyday as I worked in Stobhill. They never clean the lanes and in the wet they are very slippy.

Another fab video ! One of your best ! So informative , good to see different areas around Glasgow and beyond and how the infrastructure is hopefully improving for cyclists ! Looking forward to the next one :) 🚴🏼🚴🏼

Dutchman here. I really hope you get to the point that we're at (or even better :D). I've got two kids (2,5 years and 11 weeks) and I can't wait to teach them how to ride a bike so they can go places. I wish everyone lived in a place where they would feel comfortable letting their kids ride bikes unsupervised.

Wow - what a great channel. As an old guy who cycles (electric LOL) mainly in S.W. Glasgow I will be checking out your videos - maybe get some inspiration to cross the river. You obviously spend a lot of time and thought compiling your action cam, 360 action cam , drone shots, commentary and music to make an interesting video - well done :)

Great video as always. :) Scotland really needs to invest more in the cycling infrastructure. When compared to the rest of Europe we are many years behind. :(

Yay Glasgow cycling videos! I love Not Just Bikes and Oh The Urbanity and I’ve been hoping for Glasgow equivalents. Been thinking of making videos too, my commute along Paisley Rd West is quite a scary one at times, wish so much it had proper lanes!

Glasgow is a lovely place with some great people. I hope that you get your cycle paths joined up and pointed to useful places. I might even bring my bike next time.

I'm a keen cyclist and also a high mileage driver. Your points are well made about the planning and execution of cycle lanes. As a driver though I drive past cyclists on busy main roads that are a few feet from a perfectly usable cycle lane. When I'm cycling I always use the cycle lanes but then again I'm not usually pushed for time. For some cyclists it seems to be about rebellion and for others it's about their Strava segment times. Busy roads, angry or distracted drivers, bad decisions by cyclists all add up to avoidable trouble.

Still say the attitude and education of drivers is needed just as much. I’m very much for having a driver cycle through a city as part of training and test. I was cycling on a segregated lane along the London embankment which is great but guess what I met reversing down it? Yup a car! As a cyclist and driver I see so many people who really haven’t a clue they lack anticipation, coordination, reaction, basic knowledge of the Highway Code and empathy amongst other things.

Excellent video! There's a similar sittuation in Darnley just next to SilverBurn on Brockburn Road and a few others connected to the same roundabout. They took a lane off of the stroad and used armadillos to build a pretty decent bike lane. The problem is there are no real connections to anything and they terminate at a proper meat-grinder of a roundabout

You should go look at the segragated cycle lanes on London Road and Hamilton Road A74 it just throws you out onto a dual carraigeway both ends

Great video! I’ve so many thoughts on this… Around my area in Northern Ireland it’s the same, there is ‘token’, check box, infrastructure, but it’s not connected up in anyway really. Any painted on cycle lanes are full of parked cars, and shared use lanes with pedestrians are dangerous too! I’m a road cyclist, so 90% of the time I’ll be on the road anyway (as a a group of 8 cyclists riding at 18mph is not suitable in a cycle lane), but for my kids, and the general population surely we should be promoting active travel as the day to day norm, and that can’t be done with poor infrastructure. Also as a tangent I’m cycling to Glasgow from Northern Ireland in August to watch the world championships, any route recommendations or tips would be ace!

There are fewer cycle lanes in the East End of Glasgow, and the ones we have are not maintained and only have a blob of paint for protection. The London Road cycle lanes stop and start and, in my opinion, built in the wrong place. Can you do a review of the London Road cycle lanes👍🏻

Great video i cycle on royston road a lot and hate that section at the end of the cycle lane as it just stops at the lights you then need to move into road or jump pavement and wait on green man definitely could do with looking into improving that.

I commuted to work for well over 20 years, all year round 15 mile round trip. For a couple miles there was a cycle lane but I didn't use it. I worked a ten hour night shift. That lane, due to debris, deliberate tin tacks and broken bottles, blackthorns from cut hedges, It was at least, despite precautions, two punctures a month. I cycled on the road. The traffic was very light my journey was 7.30 evening and 8.00 morning. When I retired I continued to cycle for fun, joy, adventure. When the latest cycle laws were introduced re-overtaking I gave up riding on the road. I couldn't bear to be a rolling roadblock for traffic.

The bike lanes here in Liverpool are a joke...

I recently cycled from Dumbarton to Stranraer, Actually it was a trip inspired by your video where you stayed in galloway forrest! I even found where you camped, was a bit too windy for me though sadly. But, I was seriously impressed with the cycling routes just south of Glasgow, I think its NCR 7? Its pretty amazing how good it feels to be on segregated bike paths.

Cyclists would use the infrastructure if some qualities were there. Both infrastructure and culture are lagging behind. As a road cyclist, I find many cycle lanes in Germany made only for full suspension fat e-bikes with the thickest tires and it makes constant honk so people are aware that a "bicycle" is coming.

Because they don't exist? There is one nearby, with spaced out bollards to separate it from the rest of the road. Consequently, it's covered in soil, rubbish, stones and glass because it cannot be swept by a road cleaning vehicle.

For most part Scotlands inner city cycle lanes are Tokenism .The planning committees of Cities and Towns are more interested in the revenue that they can receive from vehicle drivers.

Nottingham has a pretty good network, problem is it's used more by drivers who think of it as their own personal free car park than by cyclists!

Definitely seems like there's roads that need to go on a diet, so plenty of road space that could be reallocated to cycling.

I cycled around my local area and I noticed screws thrown down, one screw yes but there was at least half a dozen, possibly not an accident they all ended up where cyclists ride

What the British really need to do is, take a smallish city, probably one on it's east where it is similar to The Netherlands (Cambridge, Peterborough, Ipswich, Norwich, Hull etc). All these cities are quite flat, have a dry/sunny climate, small and have cultural connections to the Netherlands. Then throw everything at them. Copy exactly what they have done in Amsterdam with cycling infrastructure. Ignore the Gammons who hate cyclists and want to drive 800ft every day. I'm afraid cities like Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol etc will never be cycling heavens like the cities on the east, they're too hilly and wet, and also don't really have the same culture of cycling the east does. The rest of the UK could over the next few decades follow some of the ideas, but while Hull could be the next Amsterdam, Glasgow could at least half do it.

The roads in UK are like in Eastern European coutries 30 years ago. Disaster!

Cycle 🚲 users pay road or Cycle Lane tax, eh? Now road traffic rules have changed in their favour of them! Do we need lanes anymore? ? 😮 just a thought folks??

another pointless cycling video showing why with only one cyclist the cycle lane is a total waste