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I cycled all the way across town today and was amazed by how much room I was given. My advice would be to always ride with another bike frame on you back. Its incredible how much space cars give you when they are suddenly worried about getting scratched by a piece of metal.
Brameses-
i always find this. whenever i have a frame cars wait and then when they can pass on the other side of the road. Bit of a hassle lugging a frame around all the time though..
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Haha have done that recently. I rely on a series of little out-of-control swerves when I hear cars approaching as if I got a bad physical tick. Also rule of thumb is if one car passes you close and you don't react all the others will pass you like that. Have a close pass and start waving your arm about and suddenly it's 1.5 metre town
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Its incredible how much space cars give you when they are suddenly worried about getting scratched by a piece of metal.
Cars have feelings, too, you know.
Theoazb
Jimmy_Fingers
Oliver Schick
Bin lorry blocking half the road, one car waiting. Should have positioned myself in the middle behind but instead stayed left, lane ahead clears so car moves, so I move and so does the car behind me, overtaking me as I overtake the bin lorry leaving me a couple of inches either side. Cue gesticulation and a raising of the finger, cue car stopping in the road to have it out with me. I oblige and get a load of abuse. Meanwhile both lanes are blocked as the car following us are coming around the lorry and so the cars coming from the other can't move, so cue abuse coming from them. Despite not swearing and trying to indicate all I wanted her to do was let me go around the lorry I get called a fucking idiot.
Really wish sometimes these exchanges would end more positively. I once chased down a van that overtook me and then immediately turned left dangerously. I explained how dangerous the maneuver was to cyclists and he was surprised and apologetic: he siimply hadn't considered it as anything wrong or dangerous. I suspect this driver hadn't considered how intimidating her maneuver was, drivers just need to be educated much more about the space a cyclist needs.
In other news they are re-surfacing the road overnight I am commuting on, which means every morning another half-mile has had it surface ripped off, it now rides like some singletrack, with exposed metalwork added. Not nice on some 25c tyres, so I hoped on the pavement (rural road) in the end as I was afeared of a puncture. Which I duly got half-a-mile from work, either from that or from something else.
But the sun was shining and the headwind wasn't too bad.