Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
This guy posts on YouTube promoting driver awareness. What are your thoughts on the case he highlights?
View: https://youtu.be/EgAUAb3W0vA
View: https://youtu.be/EgAUAb3W0vA
1. It's overtaking, not undertaking. On the left, on the right, still overtaking. Reject motoring lobbyists attempts to discourage cyclists from overtaking their inappropriately bloated products.I would take my position on the road but I would never undertake a moving car like that-
Some do exactly that. Sadly.AT the end of the day you can take being defensive to the point where you leave the bike in the shed and take the car!
Well, yes and no, the cyclist is "keeping pace" but only having come from behind, and on the worst side for visibility. Let me be clear here, this is not the cyclist's fault, BUT: He's keeping pace with the part of the car where the driver is the least likely to know he's there. The best course of action here is for the rider to get himself seen, get slightly ahead, make eye contact. If he can't, like in the clip, and the car stays level or moves ahead, the rider has to assume he hasn't seen the cyclist and should plan accordingly.The cyclist in the clip was not overtaking. They were keeping pace.
Ashely Neal professes to be a driving guru
It's a small car. The blind spot behind the door pillar isn't big enough to hide a cyclist that close. Driver either hasn't looked, or hasn't cared.Sideways blind spots are a hazard.