gomezz
Well-Known Member
It does if they are riding single file. The rule of thumb always used to be the width of an open car door but I leave a much larger gap than that.
Owen Smith
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How? On a narrow road even passing a single file cyclist is going to need a car to cross into the oncoming lane to give enough clearance.
Oh and the other reason I often cycle in the middle of the road is I expect any parked car to fling a door wide open with zero notice and I don't want to cycle straight into it.
Black Hole
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...which means we are held to ransom by cyclists.
Black Hole
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Sheesh. 60mph road following a car doing barely 40, complaining bitterly about me trying to overtake with hazard lights flashing and gesticulations out of the window. I couldn't get past, they made sure of that.
Owen Smith
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Do they realise you can fail your driving test for doing 40 in a 60 limit? If there is no good reason for doing 40 eg terrible weather, it is deemed unduly impeding other traffic not to do the limit or close to it and can be a test failure.
EEPhil
Number 28
You didn't specify what type of road the 60mph limit was on. Yes, I assume it is a single carriageway national speed limit road, but is it a wide road with few blind bends or is it one of those pesky narrow country lanes with high hedges and blind bends and a very good chance of meeting a horse rider round the next bend? I've driven on one of the back roads out of Melton Mowbray which has the national speed limit, but 40mph is probably too fast.
Black Hole
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Good road with 60 easily achievable, sweeping bends but straights not quite long enough when a car comes into view just as you accelerate!
Indeed, but I couldn't exactly pull them over to point out their inconsiderate driving!
EEPhil
Number 28
So long as you don't do what some plank did to me. I went into a right hand bend at a reasonable speed to find some &£@# about to hit me head on. The pillock was overtaking when s/he couldn't see far enough to make that decision. I did an emergency stop and forgot the clutch so I stalled. The prat just managed to get back to the proper side of the road. Squeaky bum time!
Black Hole
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It's the bikers that scare me, especially through a left-hander (right-hander for them, hugging the line and banked over into my flightpath).
"Think bike" the signs say, but they ought to say "bikers are effin' stupid" and I don't see why the rest of us should make allowances.
"Think bike" the signs say, but they ought to say "bikers are effin' stupid" and I don't see why the rest of us should make allowances.
gomezz
Well-Known Member
Could they have been in limp mode trying to get to the next charging station / home / garage?
prpr
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Record it on your dash cam, sent it to the filth, and get them prosecuted for dangerous driving or driving without due care and attention.
Alternatively call them a naughty word and watch yourself get arrested and thrown in jail for 20 years.
Are you for f*cking real?
Black Hole
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Er, no. If that were the case, it should be glaringly obvious that you proceed slowly (slow enough for traffic to pass), keep to the left, and be using hazard lights all the time and not as an admonishment for daring to try to overtake. Mind you, cyclists don't have that courtesy, so...
I use a dashcam, mainly as a defence against crash-for-cash. I have a library of clips of near misses and illegal manoeuvres. On the odd occasion I thought one worth submitting, the process is tortuous (I suppose it needs to be) and unless it is taken to court and you're called as a witness, there is no feedback whatsoever. It really isn't worth the candle except under the most extreme exampes.
The one occasion it was really useful was when a blacked-out car (no lights) overtook me at about 11pm (dark) on a 20mph road doing perhaps 40 or 50mph and disappeared into the distance. There was no clear shot of the number plate but I showed the footage to the local community officer and he thought he recognised the car, said he would have a word. Asked me to upload it to their direct police portal rather than the national dashcam portal.
gomezz
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That was the clarification I was looking for.
EEPhil
Number 28
As with many rules commonsense doesn't apply.
Black Hole
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Yes, well, that that gets ignored under almost all circumstances. EG: "I'm parking on a double yellow because I can't be bothered to walk to the cash machine". Something problematical are delivery drivers with flashing hazards but the near-side indicator is obstructed so it looks like they're about to pull out into traffic, probably without looking.
EEPhil
Number 28
That's one I've had problems with.
Then there's the "don't flash your hazards as a thank you to other motorists, wave your hand instead." Fine if it's a car. Try doing that to the lorry driver who just flashed you (tut tut) - allowing you to pull in front of him. He ain't going to see your hand gesture - unless you open the window, stick your arm out and wave. Again, commonsense doesn't apply. Who thinks up these rules?