Crackle said:
Are you sure you got the distance from kerb estimate right Cranky? I'd say, on most roads, travelling in the inside tyre track is three to three and a half feet from the kerb, unless it's a narrow road.
Yeah I was thinking about it earlier Cackle and I might have under estimated maybe about 3 feet out or on the middle to right side edge of the smooth track made by nearside wheels of vehicles but NOT in the middle of the lane which I understand is primary. So vehicles still very much have to stay behind me if it's not safe to pass because of approaching traffic.
This is not aimed at you Cackle, nor so much BM or MacB, but at the other trolls who don't seem to be able to grasp or understand the cogent relevant points I have described in my account because they just want to further their own agendas, rip strips off me and score points. I really now wish I had never posted the account. But hey no going back now. It seems to be par for the course on here that people who post get flamed. I remember poor Thomas or Joe, I can't remember now, who I think posted a similar sort of post some months back about being dangerously close passed and he was unceremoniously flamed by the forum Mafia who concluded it was his own fault. Poor guy. The similarity with other much more serious offences cannot be more striking. A young lady goes into a police station on a monday morning to report a rape which happened to her over the weekend. The desk officer makes some condescending comments then gets a few colleagues to take all the details from her but the whole time they are suggesting that her appearance or conduct might have precipitated the assault on her, what she was wearing, her behaviour or the fact that she had consumed alcohol. And the same thing happens in court if it gets that far. Basically the victim is being blamed for or encouraging the actions of the perpetrator against her when the perpetrator is the person who raped her. Whilst I'm not comparing what happened to me was at all comparable with rape, what I'm saying, is that similarly in recounting my incident of this dangerous driver there are those who are blaming me, my road positioning, for what subsequently happened to me, but the real reason as the trolls genuinely know was that the aggressive and dangerous driver tried to take me out.
Of the very few riders I see on the roads these I invariably scalp, all are riding much closer to the edge of the road, verge or kerb than myself. Neither do any of them look over their shoulders to see what is behind them even when a vehicle is approaching them from behind. So I take my safety very seriously and I am pro-active about it frequently looking behind. SO TO THE TROLLS ESPECIALLY
CHIEF TROLL CAB FOR THE NTH TIME I DO NOT KERB HUG OR PEDAL SKIM AS HE PUTS IT.
And I am now bored of this thread. Thanks to the comments of those who have clearly not been TROLLING. I am now out.