When in traffc and druving do you pull over, stop and let cyclusts passed so they don't get annoyed and take off the door mirror of a another car some other time? I mean, in heavy traffic you stoppbg will only take you a few seconds.
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- Thread starter Donger
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- Manchester
Traffic jams don't have passing places.
Ihatehills
Senior Member
- Location
- Cornwall
I'd like to know where these single track country roads are with 30 to 40 cars on in a two mile stretch
Yeah they do, you can just pull over.
Must of the roads I ride are plenty wide enough to let a bike pass a car if the driver pulls in to the gutter. But no, they all insist on driving with one wheel practically abutting the centre line
I've done 30 odd miles on single track roads. Easily seen that number of cars in it. Should I stop for each one?
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
I do whatever I can to make life easier for my fellow road users. For example, when in slow moving traffic queues whilst driving an HGV, or even a car, I will move over wherever possible to allow the safe passage of filtering motorbikes and cyclists.
- Location
- Glasgow
Well, if you're slow (like me), find yourself on a unexpectedly busy country road on a remote island, uphill to boot, of course you need to stop as many times as it's needed. In the case I've stated, both the cars and my group were trying to catch a ferry. The faster cyclists in my group didn't have to stop as many times as I did. If you're slow, as the OP's cyclist seems to have been, there's no point in antagonizing other road users, imo.
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
I think I've read all posts on this thread but may have skipped some, so forgive me if this has already been quoted.
Highway code, rule 155:
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Single-track roads. These are only wide enough for one vehicle. They may have special passing places. If you see a vehicle coming towards you, or the driver behind wants to overtake, pull into a passing place on your left, or wait opposite a passing place on your right. Give way to vehicles coming uphill whenever you can. If necessary, reverse until you reach a passing place to let the other vehicle pass. Slow down when passing pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders.
Highway code, rule 155:
155
Single-track roads. These are only wide enough for one vehicle. They may have special passing places. If you see a vehicle coming towards you, or the driver behind wants to overtake, pull into a passing place on your left, or wait opposite a passing place on your right. Give way to vehicles coming uphill whenever you can. If necessary, reverse until you reach a passing place to let the other vehicle pass. Slow down when passing pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders.
You are a prince among motorists. However I fear your efforts are in vain in the usual case that the vehicles in front and behind you don't do likewise
Plenty of them in south wales mate - cycle quite a lot of them each weekend, cars are used to it around here and so are cyclists........cars pass when safe to do so and cyclist pull over when they feel its safe to do so...........but if a car/cyclist doesnt stop and let the other through, i dont then jump on a cycling forum and complain about it.......i just crack on with my life and out it down to hey ho, he has a right not to as he has much right on the road as me
Same as tractors, dumpers, buses, lorrys, hgv's, motorbikes or hogs
Oh come on. I agree with the rest of this, but Harley riders? Really?
Why not.........likes a harley me
