Cycling: not just safer roads but less broken glass

To encourage cycling we need not just safer roads but less broken glass so less punctures.

I got a puncture on the way home from kayaking today. That spot has had a lot of broken glass for a couple of weeks and I have been getting off and pushing the bike so less weight and hopefully less likely to get glass stuck in the tyre. Today I was planning to go another way to avoid this bit of cycle path but it was very windy and I wanted to be off the towpath as soon as possible. Didn't fancy being blown into the Navigation!

The glass had been cleared so I was cycling over the area, seeing the odd bit of glass, so hoped for the best (as I do on similar stretches the other side of the road on the way to kayaking). To the crossroads, across the junction, along a little way, then thump,thump thump from the back wheel.

My third bike as an adult and yet again it's the back wheel that gets the puncture. I am about to have supper then will grit my teeth and change the inner tube. Grrrh!

First of the early daffs in the garden in flower in the garden today.