Classic victim blaming there. I guess every cyclist everywhere should pull over for every vehicle as otherwise they could end up 6 feet under.
No wonder drivers think they can get away with close passes if the attitude is like that.
When to call it a day?
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Classic victim blaming there. I guess every cyclist everywhere should pull over for every vehicle as otherwise they could end up 6 feet under.
No wonder drivers think they can get away with close passes if the attitude is like that.
Mike Hailwood wasn't a rally driver. He raced motorcycles then F1 cars.
Right, so you know which vehicles will be a close pass and which won't? How does that work.
Big John
Legendary Member
I'm the same. Most are normal and even give a wave of thanks. Sure, I've had some close calls but if you stay alert and anticipate what might be around that bend then hopefully you'll finish the ride intact.
Width of the road and circumstances. I treat all vehicles behind me as if they are going to close pass.
Sometimes I choose primary to block a potential close pass, sometimes I'll pull over. You cannot do anything about close passes on wide roads.
So in other words you haven't a clue which vehicles will close pass and which won't so saying I should have pulled over is basically victim blaming. I did nothing wrong, the driver did. Seeing as I actually experienced what happened and you didn't then by all means keep guessing about what other cyclists should or shouldn't do.
I'll add I've had an email from Operation Snap and they are taking action against the driver so it seems they agree about the close pass.
Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
There is a lot of good advice on here. I would never call it a day but would certainly pay heed to many of the contributors. Use road position positively to signal your intentions. At the same time, know when it is better to withdraw: sitting out on a verge for ten minutes at a crazy roundabout can be all it needs for conditions to improve from death-wish to life-enhancing. In general, common sense and a refusal to get caught up in other people's mindlessness does the trick. For me, there is an underlying advantage in being out on the road: no one is piping music at you. Gyms feel like prisons to me; anonymous people constrained to hard labour in dreary conditions oppressed by somebody else's taste in music that runs to rhythms that my body simply never recognizes. Each to his or her own, but the open road for me every time.
Punkawallah
Veteran
Taking the moral high ground sometimes comes with a high price tag.
Is this in reference to my posts?
I wasn't taking the moral high ground, I was cycling in a safe and considerate manner to other road users. Do you think I purposely put myself in danger just so I could "be in the right"? A ridiculous notion.
I was VERY closely passed by a tractor towing a big, heavy trailer. The rear wheel of the trailer missed me by literally inches. If I had the benefit of clairvoyence some on here seem to think they have then I'd have taken a different route. 🙄
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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And breathe…
Given how close I was to being crushed by a massive moving vehicle I'm lucky to be able to breathe.
