Road Safety?

i wear an ipod and cycle. It's not like i can't hear anything else... So far i've managed 10 years of london cycling, always with headphones, and not been hit (touching wood now - finar, finar) so it can't be that insane. I basically stick to one rule. Don't get caught in the space 1m behind the back of the car and the drivers eye level Arsehole or not, if they can't see you they can't avoid you.

i get everywhere faster with a bit of queens of the stone age as encouragement and cycling through the city at night to some bleeped out techno is bliss.

I guess you only really need one rule: don't ride like an arsehole.

B.

i wear an ipod and cycle.

B, I'm assuming that you're a confident and very aware cyclist, but I'm not sure I'd be confiding to newbies, that its acceptable to do what a very experienced person does. I personally will never wear a music player and cycle in a big city, or a busy area - I don't think I have the cojones (co-ho-nes).

1. Avoid overtaking lorries on their left
   
2. Check behind you before changing position on the road (e.g passing parked cars).
   
3. Make eye contact with other road users, visibility is the only thing
   
4. Position yourself where everyone can see you
   
5. Get in front of trucks and buses enough so the drivers see you
   
6. Position yourself out of the gutter so oncoming (right turning) traffic sees you
   
7. Even behind a van/truck/bus....MAKE yourself seen, thats your responsibility
   
8. Put a bell on your bike (use till experienced and confident)
   
9. Put a brake on your bike (essential for most, legal for all)
   
10. [from moving target]
    http://www.movingtargetzine.com/foru...r-life/#Item_0
    
11. Vocally make pedestrians aware of your movements
    
12. Do not switch lanes or cut between traffic without looking for other cyclist/motorcyclist filtering down the gaps
    
13. When passing parked cars, check over your shoulder and pull out with plenty of time.
    
14. Over exaggerate hand signals, so everyone gets the message
    
15. Look for opening car doors. Even better, always give them a wide berth, but see 13.
    
16. Keep an eye on the opposite lane. White van wants to turn right and across you. Taximan doing a U-Turn.
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for hippy's behalf, fuck there is bikeradar etc for all this shit!

GA2G, please stop with the list threads, make your own website if you want ;)

Looks like the roads may soon get a lot safer, as Foxton's go bust and their fleet of erratically driven MINI's gets sold off to normal people.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23615751-details/Foxtons+under+threat+as+bail-out+is+rejected/article.do

please please please let this come to pass ;-)

On another note about road safety

At the end of November, Mike Fletcher, a Twickenam Cyclist and
campaigner for improving cycling conditions in London was killed by a
car exiting an industrial estate as he rode down the A4 off road cycle
path by Gillet Corner. This has been quite devastating for TCC and we
are campaigning for significant changes to be made by TFL to the A4
cycling infrastructure.

One of the councillors for Brentford where Mike lived has set up a
petition to get the cycle path improved

The A4 cyclepath, although in Hounslow, is maintained by TFL. This
means that although the council have indicated that they are very
supportive of significant improvements to the cycle path it is TFLs
decision over whether they chose to fund and implement it. TFL are
having conversations with Hounslow Council about the possibility
however we've been told it could require some lobbying and that help
from the cycling community would be grately appreciated

The paper petition has some 500 signitures. I asked Cllr Matt Harmer
if he could set up an online petition as it is easier to circulate:

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/24413.html

It would be awesome if people could sign and circulate the petition

A bit harsh to rejoice at job losses.
Especially when those affected are clueless cunts who can't even drive properly.

Signed the petition.
A4 cycle route is a joke.

The A4 has a cycle route?!

its further out... after brentford IIRC
TFL shows it from Chiswick onwards..?

I see. I signed anyway.

good discussion on radio 4 now.

about seat belts becoming compulsory?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio/bbc_radio_four/2009-09-07

I saw an advert at the side of the road yesterday on my way out of Woking that read:

SELFISH
It's not all about you.

And another line that I can't remember now. I thought it was better than the normal "X collisions on this stretch of road in the past year" type advert.

Look where your going and think ahead.
Drive between the lines.
Learn the higway code about roundabouts, give way lines, traffic lights (how long after the lights gone red can you carry on going?, do the rules differ in Hackney and the old kent road) and road crossings.?

Which others can you think of for all road users.

This makes me feel dyslexic, hard to know what I am reading.

It's the lynx effect.

I watched someone spray lynx onto their neck and face like cologne in covent garden tonight. As I walked through the resultant fug, all I got was Lynx Africa...

Watch the white lines, lynx!

This makes me feel dyslexic, hard to know what I am reading.

????

I watched someone spray lynx onto their neck and face like cologne in covent garden tonight. As I walked through the resultant fug, all I got was Lynx Africa...

Why did you walk through it?

^ because by the time I realised what was happening it was too late...

^ because by the time I realised what was happening it was too late...

Ahhh, nothing like the taste.

Nothing like the smell of Lynx to remind me about having the sh!t kicked out of me in the school changing rooms :)

Look where your going and think ahead.
Drive between the lines.
Learn the higway code about roundabouts, give way lines, traffic lights (how long after the lights gone red can you carry on going?, do the rules differ in Hackney and the old kent road) and road crossings.?

Which others can you think of for all road users.

1. is this drunk posting again?
   
2. what does the above mean, surely if you follow the highway code it wouldn't matter if you're in hackney or the old kent rd.
   
3. this is not a better campaign, it's just general knowledge
   
4. it's too early to be confused.