Parked cars: a challenge for cyclists

By Michael O'Reilly
Updated January 13 2015 - 10:08am, first published November 27 2014 - 11:04am
Dawn patrol: cyclists on Melbourne's Beach Road, which has a weekend clearway.
Dawn patrol: cyclists on Melbourne's Beach Road, which has a weekend clearway.
Dawn patrol: cyclists on Melbourne's Beach Road, which has a weekend clearway.
Dawn patrol: cyclists on Melbourne's Beach Road, which has a weekend clearway.
Dawn patrol: cyclists on Melbourne's Beach Road, which has a weekend clearway.
Dawn patrol: cyclists on Melbourne's Beach Road, which has a weekend clearway.
Dawn patrol: cyclists on Melbourne's Beach Road, which has a weekend clearway.
Dawn patrol: cyclists on Melbourne's Beach Road, which has a weekend clearway.
The overlap zone: cyclists often need to merge into faster-moving traffic to pass parked cars. Photo: Steve Lightfoot
The overlap zone: cyclists often need to merge into faster-moving traffic to pass parked cars. Photo: Steve Lightfoot

Dealing with parked cars can be one of the great challenges of urban cycling.