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There are some pretentious tosspots on this forum, I hope you all cycle slowly incase some what-if occurance happens because that is what you are saying car drivers should do.
There are some pretentious tosspots on this forum, I hope you all cycle slowly incase some what-if occurance happens because that is what you are saying car drivers should do.
Whilst walking my dog recently I came across a teenage boy lying on the ground in agony, a cyclist had come speeding around the corner and hit him, the cyclist got up and fled. If he had hit an old person he could easily have killed them, luckily(!) he hit a healthy teenage boy who only suffered broken ribs.Consequences are likely to be significantly different, no? Appropriate speed is the point, I think.
Google it if you want numbers but 1 death would be too many.2119344 said:Numbers on that one please.
Whilst walking my dog recently I came across a teenage boy lying on the ground in agony, a cyclist had come speeding around the corner and hit him, the cyclist got up and fled. If he had hit an old person he could easily have killed them, luckily(!) he hit a healthy teenage boy who only suffered broken ribs.
The cyclist obviously thought he was cycling at an appropriate speed!
There are some pretentious tosspots on this forum, I hope you all cycle slowly incase some what-if occurance happens because that is what you are saying car drivers should do.
2114379 said:Is there a problem with the general rule of being able to stop before you reach as far as you can see at any given moment?
Why, can't you use Google? We all know most cycle / pedestrian collisions go unrecorded so any stats would not be accurate. In car / cycle collisions that result in death the police attribute fault to be half and half.2119358 said:Sorry but that is just pathetically laughable.
I understand physics perfectly well thank you but it is attitudes like yours that makes cyclists so hated. If you're walking along a pavement and get hit by a cyclist it will hurt, injure and possibly kill, to think that an innocent party hit by a cyclist is less of a crime than being hit by a car is just wrong.there is a huge difference between 20Kgs of metal with a 100Kg rider and 1000kg of metal coming towards you. you do understand basic physics Force = Mass x Acceleration .
and when cycling i am generally travelling at a speed I can safely stop in. demonstrated in practice by the plum who hit me a few weeks ago on the canal path while I had stopped.
There are some pretentious tosspots on this forum, I hope you all cycle slowly incase some what-if occurance happens because that is what you are saying car drivers should do.
Thank you for the warning. I'm such a noob to forums that I hadn't realised.There are some pretentious tosspots on this forum, ....
I understand physics perfectly well thank you but it is attitudes like yours that makes cyclists so hated. If you're walking along a pavement and get hit by a cyclist it will hurt, injure and possibly kill, to think that an innocent party hit by a cyclist is less of a crime than being hit by a car is just wrong.
The bend is safe to take comfortably at 40 mph even if there was a person lying in the road. I have explained and you have accepted that it was my lack of concentration that was the problem. Speed is relevant to the conditions of course and under normal conditions I estimate that bend could probably be taken faster than 40 mph and still be safe.
Hi Glasgow Cyclist,
You sure do go on a bit don't you!
I have already pointed out that the cyclist having no lights would not be the reason I would have hit her
As it is, I am investigating advanced driving courses in the area to 'brush' up what I have obviously forgotten over the years.