As we've said all along in this thread, it very much depends on your own viewpoint. Personally I doubt very much I'd ride into someone's mirror unless I was forced into it. We all ride fairly defensively on bikes because we're vulnerable. If by chance I did ride into someone's mirror and totalled it, I'd pay for it, I don't need insurance for that. In exactly the same way if in life I did something which damaged something, I'd pay for it, I don't think the risk is any greater on a pushbike, except to me.
British Cycling Membership, is it worth the £35.10?
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Drago
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Which is probably a likely scenario considering the standard of the BC roadcraft.
steverob
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I wonder what would happen if you were in an incident with another BC member, but they weren't cycling at the time and you were - for example, they were in a car, or were a pedestrian. Would the "can't claim against other BC members" clause still be in effect there? You'd think not, but at the same time it doesn't explicitly say "when on a bike".
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vickster
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Email and ask them. But I’d say the chances of either were minimal unless you happened so be at a BC event
vickster
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Indeed and I have BC membership to cover me on a bike against a car or a pedestrian against me on a bike
Tom B
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Given that proclaimation I'd give it month!
I've done it. Was riding the MTB with wide bars after being used to a bike with narrower bars.
Clipped and knocked a mirror off a parked nearly new van, owned by a large utility company. Glass broke and the painted cover was scratched.
To my amazement the guy didn't care and said it was fine and to leave it with him.
So I did
probably, it's always tempting fate to say things like that. I'm not completely scott free though. I rode into a lorry wing mirror on my chopper once but my head took that one. I hit it so hard my feet came off the pedals. I've hit quite a few on my motorbike weaving through traffic, including one bloke who set off in a kind of slow pursuit but somehow managed to catch me at some lights and remonstrated with me, whereupon I got off my bike got hold of his mirror which was completely facing the wrong way and heaved it back into it's slot like a practised mechanic. I'm not saying I might have had practice at it or anything.....
