TheLondonCyclist
Guest
Why do they feel the need to overtake on corners? it does my head in! 4 seconds of the line and the car starts beeping. Madness!
Impatient drivers!
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deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Because you are the only thing they can see between you and the open road, which of course they can't actually see because it's a bend.
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
because they have no respect for human life, including their own...they just dont know that.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Just plain thoughtlessness. It's a pity that licences are handed out like confetti and then no need to be checked or renewed via regular tests
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TheLondonCyclist
Guest
I think regular tests would be great.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
No point and needlessly bureaucratic- people know how to drive to pass a test but doesn't mean they apply what they know they should do all the time.... any more than some cyclists do.
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
You'd catch some people's bad habits etc
happens often with motorbike training schools, people have done their CBT and ride around on L plates for a while before getting round to doing their test under tuition, at which point the riding school see so many bad or dangerous habits that people have picked up.
could be that it weeds out some of the worse habits.
happens often with motorbike training schools, people have done their CBT and ride around on L plates for a while before getting round to doing their test under tuition, at which point the riding school see so many bad or dangerous habits that people have picked up.
could be that it weeds out some of the worse habits.
skudupnorth
Cycling Skoda lover
- Location
- Astley,Manchester
I was behind a bike tonight waiting for a safe place to overtake and all i could see in the rear view mirror was some dick moving over to the centre to see if they could overtake because i was not making a stupid move,more motorists need to ride cycles to understand what it is like to ride in traffic !
on the road
Über Member
The real reason is because they want to disgiuse the fact that they have a small manhood. In the case of women, they just want to be one of the boys.
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
Change the law...make it simple for these morons to understand.
Make it so.that no matter what, if they collide with a bikeit is
Automatically deemed their fault. They have the option to drivesliw and wait
Until it is safe to pass...99% choose to ignore that option.
At that point they become liable for their decision. Make it simple..
Hit a bike and go to jail...zero tolerance.
Make it so.that no matter what, if they collide with a bikeit is
Automatically deemed their fault. They have the option to drivesliw and wait
Until it is safe to pass...99% choose to ignore that option.
At that point they become liable for their decision. Make it simple..
Hit a bike and go to jail...zero tolerance.
Primal Scream
Get your rocks off
- Location
- On the road to hell
Are you serious, so if a cyclist comes out of a side turning into a main road at speed into a car doing 30 mph on Max 40 mph road its the drivers fault. Or how about the idiots who go up the inside of lorries at traffic lights.
I am all for coming down hard on dangerous drivers but automatic bkame for any incident is ludictous
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Assumed liability does not mean that there is no defence, just that no driving fault has to be established.
Primal Scream
Get your rocks off
- Location
- On the road to hell
Please excuse my ignorance but please explain the above or is it a guilty until proved innocent type of thing?
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I'm happy to admit that I'm no expert on the law and there may well be a degree of validity in claiming that it's a reversal of the principles of criminal law. However, we now have inadequate protection for killing or seriously injuring cyclists. I got hit by a vehicle which drove on 2 days ago and I just showed my fury at the next lights because I know that without witnesses that stopped and a low priority in terms of police interest I have no effective defence. In the event, I only got a bruised hand and a scuffed brand new glove, but if something serious had happened to me, I'm not sure the driver would ever get commensurate punishment.
