Pavement cyclists beware

I am completely against cycling on the pavement, I don’t enjoy doing it at all, I feel guilty, I ride slowly because I know I shouldn’t be there. However, I cycle on the pavement twice a day. Why?

Because I work in Angel near the junction with Pentonville Road/Islington High St/City Road and I come down York Way, along Copenhagen Street, Barnsbury Road, Penton Street then I should go onto Pentonville Road and down it until the junction. But I’m scared of cycling on Pentonville Road because it’s a scary scary road with lots of lorries on it, so I go down White Lion St, then go the wrong way down Baron Street then cycle along the pavement of the last bit.

And when I come out of work there is no way I am doing a right turn out onto Pentonville Road, so I go towards Kings Cross down the pavement then become legal at the turn onto Baron Street.

So in short, a combination of a thoughtless one way system and a big scary road is what pushes me onto the pavement. I would like to think if caught doing this the cop would show some judgement as all the rest of my way to work I stick to the road, although there’s no way I can prove this of course...