redddraggon
Blondie
- Location
- North Wales
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I was going in the direction of the city centre (left to right in the image) and about to turn left into the sideroad. I had caught up with the guy on the BSO 50m or so from the junction, but there was no need to pass him as I was going to turn left anyway and I hate it when I'm on the bike and people pass me only to jump on the brakes and turn left. So I left the dude plenty of space
So he gets past the stop line - lights are on green, but pulls up right against the kerb, stops, takes his feet off the pedals, left foot on the kerb, so I go to carry on around him. Just as I am about to start turning, he pulls away perpendicular to the road direction in front of me oblivious to the fact that there's a car right next to him. Presumably using the pedestrian crossing to cross the road and get on the cycle path to UMIST. Luckily for him, I was going pretty slowly, and I was keeping an eye on him, so I was able to break. Now if I'd been on my bike I probably would have been taking the corner far faster, and the outcome would have been worse for both of us.
Now if I was a non-cyclist driver, and didn't have respect for cyclists and didn't realise the general lack of common sense of BSO-riders I might have been going a bit faster and things would have happened differently. No wonder a lot of drivers become anti-cyclist.
I was going in the direction of the city centre (left to right in the image) and about to turn left into the sideroad. I had caught up with the guy on the BSO 50m or so from the junction, but there was no need to pass him as I was going to turn left anyway and I hate it when I'm on the bike and people pass me only to jump on the brakes and turn left. So I left the dude plenty of space
So he gets past the stop line - lights are on green, but pulls up right against the kerb, stops, takes his feet off the pedals, left foot on the kerb, so I go to carry on around him. Just as I am about to start turning, he pulls away perpendicular to the road direction in front of me oblivious to the fact that there's a car right next to him. Presumably using the pedestrian crossing to cross the road and get on the cycle path to UMIST. Luckily for him, I was going pretty slowly, and I was keeping an eye on him, so I was able to break. Now if I'd been on my bike I probably would have been taking the corner far faster, and the outcome would have been worse for both of us.
Now if I was a non-cyclist driver, and didn't have respect for cyclists and didn't realise the general lack of common sense of BSO-riders I might have been going a bit faster and things would have happened differently. No wonder a lot of drivers become anti-cyclist.