Cycle route sign

A blue disc bearing a white bicycle, marking a way reserved for pedal cyclists.

Also known as: Bicycle sign, Cycle path sign

Road & transportStandard profile

Meanings

A white bicycle on a blue disc marks a route cyclists must use. The same bicycle inside a red-bordered white circle prohibits them instead — the pictogram is identical and only the sign category differs.

Officially standardisedVerified fact
Marks a way reserved for pedal cyclists, which in most contracting parties they are required to use where one is provided.
Contracting parties to the 1968 Vienna Convention · Contexts: Road signage
Common modern usageVerified fact
Uses the same bicycle pictogram as the prohibitory sign banning cycles, so the meaning is carried entirely by the blue disc rather than by the drawing inside it.
Contexts: Road signage

Visual description

A blue disc carrying the white silhouette of a bicycle seen from the side, with both wheels, frame, handlebars and saddle drawn in outline.

Symmetry: none
Orientation: upright
Colours: blue, white

Part of the same system as: Bus lane sign
Both are mandatory blue signs reserving a way for one class of traffic.

Confidence

IdentityHigh confidence: High confidence because the identity is defined by a current official standard, but multiple independent sources agree.
Historical originModerate confidence: Moderate confidence because the historical origin is documented in encyclopedic references, but multiple independent sources agree, but early or supporting evidence is limited, but the regional or cultural match to this specific claim is not precise.
Current useHigh confidence: High confidence because the current use is defined by a current official standard, but multiple independent sources agree.
Visual matchHigh confidence: High confidence because the visual match is documented in encyclopedic references, but multiple independent sources agree.

Sources

Cycle track
Wikipedia · retrieved 2026-07-31
Tertiary reference. Used for what a sign depicts, which countries use which variant, and the broad regulatory lineage — not for an article number of the treaty or for the law of any single jurisdiction.
Convention on Road Signs and Signals (Vienna, 8 November 1968), consolidated text
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe · retrieved 2026-07-31
A treaty binding only on its contracting parties. It prescribes sign categories, shapes and colours and permits national variants within them; it does not describe the signage of non-signatory states, notably the United States. Cited for category and design prescription, never for the traffic law of a particular country.
Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals
Wikipedia · retrieved 2026-07-31
Tertiary reference. Used for what a sign depicts, which countries use which variant, and the broad regulatory lineage — not for an article number of the treaty or for the law of any single jurisdiction.
Convention on Road Signs and Signals of 1968 and the European Agreement supplementing it
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe · retrieved 2026-07-31
The publisher's own landing page for the consolidated instruments. Used for the status and scope of the Convention and its supplementing agreement rather than for the text of any provision.

Last reviewed 2026-07-31

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Meanings

Officially standardisedVerified fact

Marks a way reserved for pedal cyclists, which in most contracting parties they are required to use where one is provided.

Contracting parties to the 1968 Vienna Convention · Contexts: Road signage

Common modern usageVerified fact

Uses the same bicycle pictogram as the prohibitory sign banning cycles, so the meaning is carried entirely by the blue disc rather than by the drawing inside it.

Contexts: Road signage

Confidence

IdentityHigh confidence: High confidence because the identity is defined by a current official standard, but multiple independent sources agree.
Historical originModerate confidence: Moderate confidence because the historical origin is documented in encyclopedic references, but multiple independent sources agree, but early or supporting evidence is limited, but the regional or cultural match to this specific claim is not precise.
Current useHigh confidence: High confidence because the current use is defined by a current official standard, but multiple independent sources agree.
Visual matchHigh confidence: High confidence because the visual match is documented in encyclopedic references, but multiple independent sources agree.

Sources

Cycle track
Wikipedia · retrieved 2026-07-31
Tertiary reference. Used for what a sign depicts, which countries use which variant, and the broad regulatory lineage — not for an article number of the treaty or for the law of any single jurisdiction.
Convention on Road Signs and Signals (Vienna, 8 November 1968), consolidated text
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe · retrieved 2026-07-31
A treaty binding only on its contracting parties. It prescribes sign categories, shapes and colours and permits national variants within them; it does not describe the signage of non-signatory states, notably the United States. Cited for category and design prescription, never for the traffic law of a particular country.
Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals
Wikipedia · retrieved 2026-07-31
Tertiary reference. Used for what a sign depicts, which countries use which variant, and the broad regulatory lineage — not for an article number of the treaty or for the law of any single jurisdiction.
Convention on Road Signs and Signals of 1968 and the European Agreement supplementing it
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe · retrieved 2026-07-31
The publisher's own landing page for the consolidated instruments. Used for the status and scope of the Convention and its supplementing agreement rather than for the text of any provision.

Last reviewed 2026-07-31

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