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The reasoning was that there seem to be some cyclist-specific issues that I am not entirely certain about and that perhaps have become more pertinent with increased signage and dedicated cycling spaces/lanes. e.g. people think they have to filter along the smurflane, or must get in to the cycle box, often flying in at speed to stationary traffic made up of various vehicles & cyclists.
In particular commuter pelotons, e.g. on Kennington Park Road heading into town in the morning, there's a couple spots where the road narrows and is interrupted by lights. So how best to handle heavy bicycle traffic made up of nodders, people on town bikes, carbon-toting racers etc. Accelerate/ Push to front? Hang back and overtake one-by-one? Slow down massively and just take it super-easy?
Ideally enough cyclists would be experienced & open-minded to have developed a spontaneous/cooperative self-organisation a la the Multitude, but failing that some guidance would be interesting and helpful.
Like I said, I was happy with the training, found it very useful, just trying to contribute given that in the week prior to posting fellow cyclists took unecessary risks with others' (read: mine) lives on a couple of occasions in a way that is different to drivers. happily not really happened again since
On reflection, I'm not sure that there is much to add to the responses I received from KatieCoo and Skydancer, or indeed as my trainer put it on the day 'look over your left shoulder more'. thanks for your interest though
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