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Thanks, Buddha Fingaz. Moved to Paris, riding here is brilliant. Big massive boulevards, clear lines of sight to traffic lights, lots of forwards planning and you're flying. Bike boxes and bike lanes everywhere, and the bike lanes run across side roads, and people are generally very good about not turning right across them without checking -- makes a change. There's a lot of shouting and beeping, but it's pretty good-natured compared to London. No cabbies spitting on you just for being a cyclist, for example!
Pastasauce -- road surfaces are highly variable in Paris. Cobbles are a nightmare! They use a really liquid tarmac that goes super smooth, but it's soft as shite. It melts in mild sunlight, people park scooters on overcast days and the stand will sink an inch into the pavement, just nuts.
That said, I did laps of the racecourse at Longchamps today, there's a road that runs right round the edge, and it's roadie heaven. Undulating road, impeccable surface, most of it is closed road, about twenty or thirty feet wide. You have to share with cars on one bit, but the one way bike track is bigger than the two way road :D
Another big chunk is about twenty feet wide and has a single lane for cars coming up, and twice as much space for bikes going the other way. They've got their priorities straight here, I can tell you.