shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
why did you think you needed to get to the ASL?
busses have much bigger front windows that side ones and the driver is sat facing forwards looking out of it when on the move so if one had pulled up behind you whilst the lights were on red so what? Why put yourself at the side of one likely not expecting you to be there rather than staying in front of one that can see you quite readily?
Also Trucks v Bikes is a big issue at the mo and invariably it is the truck portrayed as the bad thing regardless - I've seen vids of cycling manoeuvres tantamount to suicide, ridden past a crash scene with the lad under the truck and read plenty of reports of people doing very similar to you but not being seen and ending up dead - a couple of years ago an Argentinian(?) couple, she died, he lived - his evidence was that they had filtered to the front of a queue, found a truck in the ASL so just pulled alongside it because they 'had nowhere to go'.
With hindsight I'm sure he would think very differently. I'm not a fan of the determination to get to the ASL at all costs.
Maybe the driver had hit a cyclist previously and is very nervous around us or maybe recently had a raft of awareness training and think bike information thrown at him telling him that he's the problem and is a killer in the making, then he sees supposedly the victim making quite an irresponsible move and rightly wonders why he is portrayed as the big bad beast.
glad you lived to tell the tale though.
busses have much bigger front windows that side ones and the driver is sat facing forwards looking out of it when on the move so if one had pulled up behind you whilst the lights were on red so what? Why put yourself at the side of one likely not expecting you to be there rather than staying in front of one that can see you quite readily?
Also Trucks v Bikes is a big issue at the mo and invariably it is the truck portrayed as the bad thing regardless - I've seen vids of cycling manoeuvres tantamount to suicide, ridden past a crash scene with the lad under the truck and read plenty of reports of people doing very similar to you but not being seen and ending up dead - a couple of years ago an Argentinian(?) couple, she died, he lived - his evidence was that they had filtered to the front of a queue, found a truck in the ASL so just pulled alongside it because they 'had nowhere to go'.
With hindsight I'm sure he would think very differently. I'm not a fan of the determination to get to the ASL at all costs.
Maybe the driver had hit a cyclist previously and is very nervous around us or maybe recently had a raft of awareness training and think bike information thrown at him telling him that he's the problem and is a killer in the making, then he sees supposedly the victim making quite an irresponsible move and rightly wonders why he is portrayed as the big bad beast.
glad you lived to tell the tale though.
Unknowingcyclist.
