If you are like me and live up the Cabra Montes road, cyclists are not on your Christmas-card list… so here’s something to cheer you up.

Around the end of last month the Granada City Hall presented their new bylaws concerning the use of vehicles on streets and pavements, cycle lanes and pedestrian precincts. Apart from a long list of who can and can’t use these public ways, there was a list of fines, many of them concerning cyclists.

Cycling on a pavement: 100-500 euros; ignorning roadsigns: 150-500 euros; using a mobile whilst cycling: 200 euros; cycling without using your hands or doing wheelies: 500 euros: wearing ear/headphone: 200 euros; no helmet: 200 euros; no reflectors: 80-200 euros; drunk on a bike: 500 euros; littering whilst riding: 200 euros and finally, braking dangerously without cause: 500 euros.

Now we only need for the Traffic Police to fine cyclists for zig-zagging across the road on blind bends whilst cycling uphill and the year will be complete!

(News: Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)