Opinions on this leaflet please

[Andy_R]

You'd be much better off looking through the National Standard (aka Bikeability) syllabus and the reasoning behind each outcome before you start to talk such tosh as "being 0.5-1m away from the kerb". It's not about the kerb, its about the traffic!

 

[Spinney]

When you buy a new car, do you get a patronising little leaflet with photos of people driving cars properly and lots of advice about how to stay safe on the road? (I've never bought a new car, so I wouldn't know.)

The Highway Code idea is a good one, for bike and car purchasers.

No, but then you require a licence to drive a car...

 

[green1]

I'd like to see someone follow the advice about roundabouts on the Haudigan. They'd be waiting all year.

 

[sazzaa]

I'd like to see someone follow the advice about roundabouts on the Haudigan. They'd be waiting all year.

I see that Haudagain improvements are in the council's development plan, pity they had already said nothing would be done till after the bypass is built....

 

[Twelve Spokes]

It's the wording that annoys me. "Engine noise warns you of approaching vehicles so don't listen to music while cycling". I'm not entirely sure we should be told to rely on our hearing like that either? What about the lifesaver glance?

What about banning hard of hearing or deaf cyclists?

 

[Kookas]

If you want to produce competent cyclists, you need to teach them, and a piece of paper with a wall of text on it isn't going to be very effective at doing that. A leaflet offering free training (i.e. nothing to lose), with a small glimpse at what they would learn & why they need to learn it would be far better IMO.

And make the leaflet look like a hi-viz. It would be funny.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

too many words, sounds like it was written by a stereotypical motoring apologist rider. If I were handed a leaflet in a bike shop telling me I needed 2 sets of lights that you'd legitimately expect to buy in a bike shop, I'd see it as covert advertising & no suggestion of flashing & steady lights nor the difference between to be seen by & to see by just some guff to puff out the personal opinion

 

[classic33]

It seems more sensible than many bits of 'advice' I've seen.
The bit that is a bit daft is this:
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It implies that even if you are on a main road (as in the photo), you should stop and let a car out if you haven't made eye contact with the driver.

Driver of the black vehicle, coming out of the hospital(on the left), is going round the mini roundabout the wrong way.

 

[classic33]

A bell must be fitted at the time of purchase – after that you can do what you want with it

Only if the pedals were fitted to the bike at the time of purchase.

 

[classic33]

I don't think the leaflet exists anywhere except on this thread.

No printers name on it either.