Sheffield_Tiger
Guru
All this "don't RLJ, don't do this, don't do that..motorists will respect cyclists"
Is there really a point? We wil ALWAYS be in the wrong.
Primary position, approaching a junction (only a few yards from it), car overtakes on the right hand side of the road with no time to pull back in without barging me out of the way, so does just that, flicks an indicator on then swings left and turns left.
Loud "OI" and I see and take a chance to put myself across the road and block to have a word, since the turn is tight the car had to slow RIGHT down.
"I indicated" was the indignant response
then
"You shouldn't have been up my inside"
So there you have it. By riding in the middle of the lane being in front of a car I still managed to undertake the car and be in the wrong.
Same journey this morning I "behaved myself" and waited at a clear toucan until the cycle lights were green.
To the left is the exit of a road with a "no right turn".
As I set off across the toucan, crossed the centre reservation and suddenly there is an impatient car blasting horn at me for crossing in front of him - I doubt he could see his red light as it's not positioned for illegal right-turners to see anyway.
If I'd not waited and gone across on red when there was no traffic at all, that would have been one altercation less.
No, I'm not about to start riding courier-style as some kind of "revenge" but sometimes you can do everything "right" and still end up being the devil in the blinkered eyes of the average motorist
Is there really a point? We wil ALWAYS be in the wrong.
Primary position, approaching a junction (only a few yards from it), car overtakes on the right hand side of the road with no time to pull back in without barging me out of the way, so does just that, flicks an indicator on then swings left and turns left.
Loud "OI" and I see and take a chance to put myself across the road and block to have a word, since the turn is tight the car had to slow RIGHT down.
"I indicated" was the indignant response
then
"You shouldn't have been up my inside"
So there you have it. By riding in the middle of the lane being in front of a car I still managed to undertake the car and be in the wrong.
Same journey this morning I "behaved myself" and waited at a clear toucan until the cycle lights were green.
To the left is the exit of a road with a "no right turn".
As I set off across the toucan, crossed the centre reservation and suddenly there is an impatient car blasting horn at me for crossing in front of him - I doubt he could see his red light as it's not positioned for illegal right-turners to see anyway.
If I'd not waited and gone across on red when there was no traffic at all, that would have been one altercation less.
No, I'm not about to start riding courier-style as some kind of "revenge" but sometimes you can do everything "right" and still end up being the devil in the blinkered eyes of the average motorist