Crankarm
Guru
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- Nr Cambridge
No need to get personal.
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Lucky to walk away - Romford Cyclist Video
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No need to get personal.
Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
[QUOTE 3196089, member: 45"]He didn't have time to brake. If he had, and reached for the horn instead, then he'd have been a idiot.[/QUOTE]
She might have stopped half way across meaning there might have been sufficient a gap for him to ride through. But he doesn't have one so we shall never know. I know I would have used mine if I had been approaching a junction like that with cars tempted to cut across me. The car was visible for several seconds before he reached it when it began turning across him. But of course you don't know how effective Airzounds are as you don't have one!
She might have stopped half way across meaning there might have been sufficient a gap for him to ride through. But he doesn't have one so we shall never know. I know I would have used mine if I had been approaching a junction like that with cars tempted to cut across me. The car was visible for several seconds before he reached it when it began turning across him. But of course you don't know how effective Airzounds are as you don't have one!
Hip Priest
Veteran
Yup an Airzound. Soundz like an air horn, as it is one, and is very loud. Are you seriously going to claim that a ping bell would have saved him from being knocked off? ……….
Worst straw man argument ever.
Cycling Dan
Cycle Crazy
Did the OP at least ask her out on a date before he got f***ed by her.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...into-himand-he-lands-on-his-feet-9625514.html - widens the coverage and reveals the true character of the driver.
Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
[QUOTE 3196312, member: 45"]I had an Airzound. It wasn't effective so I sold it.[/QUOTE]
You obviously didn't read the operating instructions properly
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You obviously didn't read the operating instructions properly
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Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
[QUOTE 3196146, member: 45"]I repeat, he didn't have time to brake. If he didn't have time to brake he wouldn't have had time to reach for anything, like a red button, and would have been over the bonnet before a sound emerged.
An airzound would have made no difference.[/QUOTE]
You sure about that? Because re-watching the footage I reckon one would have had time for a quick blast as one approached the junction given there is one car thinking about emerging from the side road on the left. Just my opinion watching the footage. I'd have also had the brakes covered as well.
An airzound would have made no difference.[/QUOTE]
You sure about that? Because re-watching the footage I reckon one would have had time for a quick blast as one approached the junction given there is one car thinking about emerging from the side road on the left. Just my opinion watching the footage. I'd have also had the brakes covered as well.
Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
You are s u c h a c o m e d i a n.
Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
[QUOTE 3196371, member: 45"]Third time - if he could have used an airzound he should have been braking instead.[/QUOTE]
Or both.
Or both
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Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
[QUOTE 3196777, member: 45"]That would compromise braking, and be unwise.
As it is he didn't have time to do either, so your advice is irrelevant.[/QUOTE]
Hardly irrelevant is it? Do you really understand what irrelevant means? Probably not.
As it is he didn't have time to do either, so your advice is irrelevant.[/QUOTE]
Hardly irrelevant is it? Do you really understand what irrelevant means? Probably not.
Amanda P
Legendary Member
- Location
- York. Well, York-ish...
I think Cranky's point is that he wouldn't have honked the horn when he realised there was going to be a collision. We're all agreed, it was inevitable by then, and too late to brake is too late to honk.
But if he'd honked earlier, when he thought there might be a collision, on the approach to the hazard, then the driver might have looked harder or stopped sooner and there'd have been an escape route.
It's worked for me on several occasions. Mind you, the route on that video is so full of hazards, you'd run out of air pretty soon if you honked at every one.
But if he'd honked earlier, when he thought there might be a collision, on the approach to the hazard, then the driver might have looked harder or stopped sooner and there'd have been an escape route.
It's worked for me on several occasions. Mind you, the route on that video is so full of hazards, you'd run out of air pretty soon if you honked at every one.
Arjimlad
Tights of Cydonia
- Location
- South Glos
I will sometimes weave about or wave if I think someone may not have seen me, but that one came out of the blue. He had no way of knowing, to my eye, that the myopic cockwomble had failed to look for him.
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
Can a woman be a cockwomble? I ask merely for information, as Lady Bracknell would say.
It's a word I greatly admire for the combination of stupidity and *rseyness it implies.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
The driver started the turn across his path very slowly and very early... it wasn't inevitable but he maintained his speed and never altered his direction while he approached the junction. There were a couple of other cars earlier in the video that had started to emerge from side junctions which both stopped late across the kerb line and he didn't vary his speed or line for those either.... I'd be a riding with a greater awareness of visible hazards than he was.
