Lost cyclist follows sat-nav over Manchester's huge M60 Barton Bridge

Baa Baa.

''if your sat-nav is telling you to do something dangerous, don’t do it''

so next time you hear 'At the next turn, run with scissors' you know what to do folks.

Who is the idiot?

http://beyondthekerb.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/idiots/

Yes, if you ride onto a motorway as an adult then you are an idiot, or a complete retard even.
As a road user you should know the rules and laws.

So, you're an idiot for cycling on a motorway, in your own dedicated 3 metre, separate from the 70 mph traffic. Instead, you're supposed to cycle on A-roads *mixing* with 60 mph to 70 mph.

Strange, bizarre attitudes to cycling safety in this country.

That's my local motorway junction (junction 10). I'm sorry but I don't buy any suggestion he didn't know he was joining a motorway, bearing in mind that bridge looms ahead of you all the way up and you are already climbing towards it as soon as you join the slip road.

If it was a genuine mistake, I can't see what prevented him from stopping and turning round on the hard shoulder and scooting back down.

The police say he rode/freewheeled down as far as junction 12 (the M60/M62/M602 interchange), which meant he decided to ignore the Irlam exit (junction 11) just after the bridge. He will also have had to come off the hard shoulder and join the motorway traffic at the on and off slip roads for junction 11.

And if he was trying to continue through the Junction 12 interchange when the police caught up with him, where there are daily bottlenecks and RTAs as cars filter onto the M60, he's lucky still to be alive.

C*ck.

Farrell, top sharing.

I know we should be all po-faced and critical but...I bet everyone of us is just a teensy bit jealous. The descent would have been epic. You would aero yourself to the max and for weeks afterwards you would get the giggles every time you remembered.

Please say he filmed it!

Still not sure why a cyclist on the hard shoulder would cause 'traffic problems'. After all, he has a good 3m separating him from the vehicle traffic, so even the worst drivers (even those with dying parrots ) have room to get past!
(Also can't see why cycling on a hard shoulder is actually any more dangerous than cycling with traffic on a dual carriageway, but there you go....).

Shouldn't the headline be 'idiot on bike' rather than 'lost cyclist'?

Was it a Garmin?

These sat navs that are supposed to be used on bikes should have the motorways removed from their maps.

I don't think this fella was that lost, I think he's just gone for it, the fact he's taken his feet off the pedals to freewheel is suggesting to me that it was fixed.

Bet you nobody touches his Strava KOM for that.

You do have to wonder about some people

This also highlights the need for better Cycle sat-nav sites/apps. Google's is not brilliant. When planing routes I use either Cycle Streets or British Cycling's route planner. Both will route you down dual carriageways which I believe to be stupid and poor design. I know cyclists aren't banned from dual carriageways but when you consider most drivers treat them like motorways why would anyone want to cycle along a dual carriageway.

Am jealous, to be honest.

That's a solid piece of advice, that.