glenn forger
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I think the critical issue would be less the relative top speeds of the respective vehicles and more the potential for harm.
Yes and no. Look at it from the point of view of someone crossing the road.
Imagine if this incident had involved a tipper truck ploughing down a cyclist in similar circumstances. There would have been uproar on here
Once again, no there wouldn't. If a driver under the speed limit hit an unlit cyclist on a narrow road then it would be tragic but I certainly wouldn't attach blame to the driver.
Really? - is the legal speed limit the only limiting factor in your opinion?
Is that really true?
Maybe I'm just a crap cyclist, but I'm pretty sure I could stop a lot faster in my car if I was travelling down a soaking wet hill at 25mph than I could on my bike.
4 big tyres and 4 big hydraulic disks backed up by ABS makes stomping on the pedal in the car a stress free affair, but if I hauled on the bicycle brakes in those circumstances i'd probably end up sliding down the hill on my arse.
In this instance the bikes potential for harm has been terribly demonstrated though.I think the critical issue would be less the relative top speeds of the respective vehicles and more the potential for harm.
ok, braking in a car at relatively low speed for that type of vehicle as opposed to braking on a bike at relatively high speed for it, and the number & size of the contact patches/chances of losing grip of the respective tyres, particularly on a wet road allied to those respective speeds per vehicle....
Are you seriously suggesting a bicycle travelling at 25MPH is more dangerous than a motor vehicle at the same speed?
Have you heard of this thing called physics? It's quite interesting.
Personally I wouldn't like to be hit by either one at 20 mph!
Not at all, simply trying to keep in perspective that a bike at that speed can and in this instance has, caused a significant injury to another person who has shortly after lost their life. It is also a reiteration of a point further up thread that the likely outcome of anchoring on hard in a car and on a bike at that speed are different.Are you seriously suggesting a bicycle travelling at 25MPH is more dangerous than a motor vehicle at the same speed?
Have you heard of this thing called physics? It's quite interesting.
Not at all, simply trying to keep in perspective that a bike at that speed can and in this instance has, caused a significant injury to another person who has shortly after lost their life. It is also a reiteration of a point further up thread that the likely outcome of anchoring on hard in a car and on a bike at that speed are different.