2009-04-05 - Rider Down, Old Street roundabout Shoreditch exit

Don't forget incidents like that one on Kingsland Rd, where a cyclist obediently waiting at a red light was taken out by an HGV.

If one of those pulls up beside me at lights, I'll pre-empt the lights as much as possible, just in case the HGV driver has failed to notice me before their blindspot has cloaked me.

Nine times out of ten I wait and then pre-empt the light change by about ten seconds just to be sure as to get in front of the cars and to be seen. Typically as I hear their engines rev I drift over to let the cars pass. I jump lights but i don't jump them into oncoming traffic because I ain't that stupid and I rarely go within ten foot of a HGV. Then again you barely see an HGV in Paris?