Was I an Idiot on the road today? (short 40 second video)

[Deleted member 26715]

Being critical, as you came through the previous lights you should have already observed that the Taxi already had his brake lights on, therefore you should have already begin to cover the brakes with a view to stop, what would you have done had the pedestrians already started to cross? I personally wouldn't have gone down the outside of a stationary Taxi, there is a chance a punter may decide to jump out rather than going the extra 50 yards to a clear stopping place. I also would not have gone for the gap in the first place it is/was too narrow for my liking, just like you decided on the 2nd gap where you thought better of it even though the other rider didn't, but this is Darn Sarf where you seem to operate under different rules anyway.

Alan...

 

[cd365]

Ped was at fault for not looking properly

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Ped was at fault for not looking properly

No wonder cyclists are held in such low regard

 

[KneesUp]

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As a matter of curiosity, do you ride with the whistle in your cake hole at all times?

That's what I want to know too!

 

[Mr_Kipling]

I always think why the cars in front have decided to stop, rather than steam right past.

I will be adopting that way of thinking from now on.

 

[Mr_Kipling]

As a matter of curiosity, do you ride with the whistle in your cake hole at all times?

Yes I do when I am moving. I take it out when stopped in traffic or at lights & If I need to breath a little harder, mostly when going up hill, I will spit it out.
Sometimes I get strange looks from passengers of cars that pass me. I must look like a right twat lol.

 

[Mr_Kipling]

Being critical, as you came through the previous lights you should have already observed that the Taxi already had his brake lights on, therefore you should have already begin to cover the brakes with a view to stop, what would you have done had the pedestrians already started to cross? I personally wouldn't have gone down the outside of a stationary Taxi, there is a chance a punter may decide to jump out rather than going the extra 50 yards to a clear stopping place. I also would not have gone for the gap in the first place it is/was too narrow for my liking, just like you decided on the 2nd gap where you thought better of it even though the other rider didn't, but this is Darn Sarf where you seem to operate under different rules anyway.

Alan...

Yep your right, I definitely won't be doing anything like that again.

 

[mr_cellophane]

Do you cycle with the whistle in your mouth the whole time ?

 

[broadway]

The difference is that it's recognised that bikes are quiet so peds can benefit from an alert to your presence, where as motorised vehicles are big noisy things which are much more difficult to miss.

There is a difference.

An electric car?

 

[Sara_H]

An electric car?

They make quite a loud whirring noise, think milk float. Though I understand there have been calls for them to be fitted with a fake engine noise so that people are more lkely to hear them coming.

 

[Mr_Kipling]

They make quite a loud whirring noise, think milk float. Though I understand there have been calls for them to be fitted with a fake engine noise so that people are more lkely to hear them coming.

I thought the same, until I was cycling in Hyde Park and saw a car behind me in my mirror. It was a park ranger and the car was totally silent. I pulled to the side and let him pass I could hear nothing. here is the 35 second video of that it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9FQX6UfLX0&feature=youtu.be

 

[cd365]

No wonder cyclists are held in such low regard

So my view on this one video is the reason why all cyclists are held in low regard? Get a grip!
As a child I was taught to look properly before crossing the road, the woman didn’t

 

[Monsieur]

I once ran a Canadian tourist over in my car in 1981 outside Harrods - she stepped right out in front of me as she was ''looking the other way''.

Cyclist in this thread is in the wrong, regardless of pedestrians looking or not - busy road, taxi stopping, people in middle about to cross...cyclist should be reading the road ahead and expecting someone to cross the road.

And as for having a whistle stuck in his mouth...for heavens sake!!!

 

[themosquitoking]

If there's no traffic, why the heck hasn't the pelican changed anyway? A better solution would be to make pelicans actually respond to the buttons immediately (change if clear, wait if not, up to the configured delay) without the punishment delay that most of them currently have.

People crossing the road within 10-15 yards of a crossing point is quite believable once you realise that the designers have usually been told where the crossing desire line is, but they persist in their belief that you can deflect desire lines by many metres. We've told them this again in Norfolk this year but no, a crossing is going to be installed about 10 metres south of the desire line (there's no good reason for it, in this case - as far as I can tell, it only makes the drawings look neater by connecting the two sides of the road at right-angles instead of a slight diagonal) and then any pedestrians hurt at this junction will be blamed for walking the shorter route. A far better solution would be to put the crossings nearer to where people actually want to cross!

On my street that would mean putting three in the space of about 200 metres, there's only one, which is probably correct. Three in that distance is too many, peds need to take more responsibility for their own safety. I wanted to cross here when you get run over within 10 metres of a crossing is no excuse.

 

[Mr_Kipling]

I once ran a Canadian tourist over in my car in 1981 outside Harrods - she stepped right out in front of me as she was ''looking the other way''.

Cyclist in this thread is in the wrong, regardless of pedestrians looking or not - busy road, taxi stopping, people in middle about to cross...cyclist should be reading the road ahead and expecting someone to cross the road.

Fair enough.

And as for having a whistle stuck in his mouth...for heavens sake!!!

The whistle works the same as a car horn. It you think it is a bad Idea, please never use your car horn again.