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I mean - during the first lockdown the main roads round here were MUCH better for cycling!!!
Yep, showed how many of the car trips are essential. Not a lot it turns out.
I mean - during the first lockdown the main roads round here were MUCH better for cycling!!!
You're confusing 'braking' with 'being ready to brake'. If you need to be braking with both hands while you're going around a roundabout, you went in at inappropriate speed. It is perfectly possible to give appropriate hand signals, while all the time being ready to virtually instantaneously apply both hands to the brakes in case of an emergency.Complete cobblers. To put it politely.
It's essential in many situations eg on a roundabout, to be ready for an emergency stop in case a farkwit pulls out on you.
then I wouldn't be surprised if you left a trail of devastation, and plenty of irate road-users, in your wake.ready for an emergency stop in case a farkwit pulls out on you
If you need to be braking with both hands while you're going around a roundabout, you went in at inappropriate speed.
You're confusing 'braking' with 'being ready to brake'. If you need to be braking with both hands while you're going around a roundabout, you went in at inappropriate speed. It is perfectly possible to give appropriate hand signals, while all the time being ready to virtually instantaneously apply both hands to the brakes in case of an emergency.
If you negotiate every roundabout without signalling, with both hands on the bars just because you want to be
then I wouldn't be surprised if you left a trail of devastation, and plenty of irate road-users, in your wake.
Oh, I didn't know BMW drivers knew what indicators where.
I had a great one under similar circumstances recently. Approaching a mini-roundabout in a local village, I'm going left and have signalled accordingly to the traffic behind me by sticking out my left arm for 5-10 seconds. Getting closer as I descend towards the roundabout I want both hands on the bars to stabilise the bike under braking.
There's a guy waiting to my left, who can go if he knows that I'm turning left.. but I can't signal as such as I'm clinging to the bars. I get eye contact and cock my head to the left to state my intentions. He understands perfectly, smiles, nods, waves in appreciation / acknowlegement and pulls out knowing that he no longer has to give way to me.
Wouldn't it be nice if communication on the roads was always as straightforward and mutually beneficial as this..?
Yep, showed how many of the car trips are essential. Not a lot it turns out.
To some extent, but most bicycles have two independent brakes (I appreciate that they're not fully interchangeable). I'd argue that (with the exception of super-steep downhills), if you're approaching a place where you need to signal, at a speed whereat you need to be applying both brakes, you're not fully in control of the manoeuvre, and the fault is with you.
Making eye contact can be a lifesaver!
Getting drivers to expect or respect cyclist hand signals can also be a challenge.
Yep tell me about it, I was on the Trike and approaching home (quiet residential street) and because there was a car behind me I indicated a right turn to get to my gate, the car driver promptly tried to overtake before screeching to a halt. Luckily I was quite aware and managed to turn back to the left avoiding contact but only just, I asked her what she was doing (in slightly more forcefull language being a bit shaken up) her reply "You waved me past"