# cycling in australia.

**URL:** <https://fixed.org.au/t/cycling-in-australia/60991>\
**Category:** Linkblog\
**Created:** [April 3, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cycling-in-australia/60991 "2013-04-03T00:01:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![brendan](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brendan](https://fixed.org.au/u/brendan)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cycling-in-australia/60991/1 "2013-04-03T00:01:50Z")

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the good doctor put me on to this today. it’s kind of a treasure trove.

[Cycling in Australia Views & Research - The Conversation](http://theconversation.com/topics/cycling-in-australia)

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**Author:** ![dooby\_scooby](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/dooby_scooby/32/923_2.png) [@dooby\_scooby](https://fixed.org.au/u/dooby_scooby)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cycling-in-australia/60991/2 "2013-04-03T02:30:51Z")

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story on the home page does for me, ‘cyclists feel safe to run red lights’ - one of the most common reasons is because they don’t set off the sensors.  
something we can all relate to.

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**Author:** ![P\_N20](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/p_n20/32/177_2.png) [@P\_N20](https://fixed.org.au/u/P_N20)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cycling-in-australia/60991/3 "2013-04-03T14:07:34Z")

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^ Rubbish. The ‘sensors’ are an inductive loop that even the most fredly crabon fibre bike would have enough metal to trigger.

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**Author:** ![lokione](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/lokione/32/733_2.png) [@lokione](https://fixed.org.au/u/lokione)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cycling-in-australia/60991/4 "2013-04-03T14:22:41Z")

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I don’t have the tech knowledge to argue but I rode a motorbike for many years and quite a few times had to get off the bike and hit the pedestrian button to get the green hey. There was one set in particular, maybe they were just fucked? Maybe a case of some cyclists taking the same route every day over the same fucked “inductive loop thingo”? I dunno 🙂

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**Author:** ![dfunkt](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/dfunkt/32/392_2.png) [@dfunkt](https://fixed.org.au/u/dfunkt)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cycling-in-australia/60991/5 "2013-04-03T14:33:57Z")

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i know i’ve managed to split the middle of them, or ride around the outside edge, and not have them trigger…  
will do some testing in the coming days at a set i ride over daily, which i know only give green if triggered.

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**Author:** ![LAM](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/lam/32/17_2.png) [@LAM](https://fixed.org.au/u/LAM)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cycling-in-australia/60991/6 "2013-04-04T03:58:32Z")

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i know one right turn arrow i can’t trigger on the motorbike.