subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
yeah there seemed to be a problem between the Mk1 eyeball and the brain there. in both road users.
Car's door
- Thread starter Igor on a bike
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yeah there seemed to be a problem between the Mk1 eyeball and the brain there. in both road users.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
It sounds like you've got some sort of bird tweeting, rather than anything I'd recognise as a bicycle. I use a chrome crown bell, but I'm riding mostly on quiet roads and cycle tracks and it looks like you're on busy urban streets busy with incompetent motorists, so I'd probably go for a parp horn https://www.wilcodirect.co.uk/product/accessories/bugle-bumper-horn or an Airzound in that situation.
Yes, rubbish driving. I might try to accelerate to get ahead of him, but probably not in wet weather. I'd also report that cycle lane on www.fixMyStreet.com for being substandard width and vanishing across junctions - it looks worse than nothing.
Igor on a bike
New Member
ha-ha, yes, sometimes I'm not in mood to let them go. Especially when it's rain
Re: Car doors. As mentioned above, ride much further out from the doorzone if you are doing any sort of speed. In that case cars were parked all over the bus lane so slot into a gap with the rest of the traffic in the other lane and problem solved. If you must ride close to car doors then make sure it is at a speed you can stop at almost immediately (i.e. dead slow) and be alert. Same for filtering between lanes of traffic, see plenty of cyclists going far too fast between slow moving traffic and they would have no chance if a passenger opened a door or a car decided to change lane abruptly without looking/indicating.
Re: Other video. Driver was a muppet but you could see it coming for several seconds and at least he indicated. No point in putting yourself in a dangerous position if you can avoid it. Simply stop pedalling for a second, shoulder check, pull across the road and accelerate past them on the right side before they even make the turn. Usually makes them realise what they've done. Cycling in a more assertive position might have put him/her off from the inital turn across your path but no guarantees and you should probably seen it as a sign that the driver is inattentive/impatient and likely to do something stupid again.
Re: Other video. Driver was a muppet but you could see it coming for several seconds and at least he indicated. No point in putting yourself in a dangerous position if you can avoid it. Simply stop pedalling for a second, shoulder check, pull across the road and accelerate past them on the right side before they even make the turn. Usually makes them realise what they've done. Cycling in a more assertive position might have put him/her off from the inital turn across your path but no guarantees and you should probably seen it as a sign that the driver is inattentive/impatient and likely to do something stupid again.
Col5632
Guru
- Location
- Cowdenbeath
In your second video I would have hung back and waited to see what they were going to do especially seeing as they already almost took you out
Igor on a bike
New Member
One more time, thanks everyone for all your comments and suggestions. Some of them were really priceless.
Reading right now guide about safe cycling. Everything looks like common sense, but from your comments about 'door zone' is something new for me, so hope I will pic up some more tips.
Reading right now guide about safe cycling. Everything looks like common sense, but from your comments about 'door zone' is something new for me, so hope I will pic up some more tips.
Hip Priest
Veteran
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
A bare knuckle fight challenge would have made the hat trick!
