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Ban wanking.
opt-in to 'adult content'
I see you two are still at loggerheads
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Not that I disagree with you at all about training motorists in "proper" cycling, but maybe it should be part of the driving test rather than a precursor?
This. In spades.
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Doing my test to be licensed to be a danger on the road next Thursday. Cyclists are mentioned everywhere during highway code / hazard perception.
But maybe it's still too abstract and more interactive hazard awareness materials are needed. Failing that, sending somebody down hazard hot spots on a bike / cycling course...
Scientific research on how we perceive things and can improve our habits would be good. There's cyclists too that cannot see how their behaviour impacts others. maybe we all suffer from a bit of blindness that nerds training.
I'd still would've given that idiot nearly hitting me a mouthful rather than this more measured response :)
Though I had a conversation with a stupid bint that nearly clipped me. Aparantly I had no right to take the lane and it was my fault she nearly hit the kerb. Le sigh....
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Though I had a conversation with a stupid bint that nearly clipped me. Aparantly I had no right to take the lane and it was my fault she nearly hit the kerb. Le sigh....
I was hooted by a driver all the way along Blackstock Road while taking the lane earlier. I spoke to him about drivers opening car doors without checking and he apologised saying he hadn't though of that and had thought i was taking the piss.
Calm measured words sometimes work
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It's alright if you're a calm/measured person. I would've slowed until stopped, taken plate details and then asked them to choose a suitable resolution.
It's usually a bit swearier than that. ^
The last time, a woman threatened to kill me. I told her to go for it. She didn't. I was hurt by her non-committal attitude to murder.
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Doing my test to be licensed to be a danger on the road next Thursday. Cyclists are mentioned everywhere during highway code / hazard perception.
But maybe it's still too abstract and more interactive hazard awareness materials are needed. Failing that, sending somebody down hazard hot spots on a bike / cycling course...
Scientific research on how we perceive things and can improve our habits would be good. There's cyclists too that cannot see how their behaviour impacts others. maybe we all suffer from a bit of blindness that nerds training.
I'd still would've given that idiot nearly hitting me a mouthful rather than this more measured response :)
Though I had a conversation with a stupid bint that nearly clipped me. Aparantly I had no right to take the lane and it was my fault she nearly hit the kerb. Le sigh....
I was hooted by a driver all the way along Blackstock Road while taking the lane earlier. I spoke to him about drivers opening car doors without checking and he apologised saying he hadn't though of that and had thought i was taking the piss.
Calm measured words sometimes work
It's alright if you're a calm/measured person. I would've slowed until stopped, taken plate details and then asked them to choose a suitable resolution.
It's usually a bit swearier than that. ^
The last time, a woman threatened to kill me. I told her to go for it. She didn't. I was hurt by her non-committal attitude to murder.
Was there lots of hi viz and a head covering?
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Doing my test to be licensed to be a danger on the road next Thursday. Cyclists are mentioned everywhere during highway code / hazard perception.
A whole lot of things are mentioned but most drivers ignore most of them as soon as they pass their test (or within a short time anyway) and the stuff they don't ignore they forget over a few more years.
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I was hooted by a driver all the way along Blackstock Road while taking the lane earlier. I spoke to him about drivers opening car doors without checking and he apologised saying he hadn't though of that and had thought i was taking the piss.
Calm measured words sometimes work
I explained her that I needed to go out in the lane as there was a lane of parked cars and somebody could open a door on me. It was no good as she was in such as hurry she couldn't wait the whole of 150 meters to the next red traffic light...
Two of my colleagues at work told me they nearly got hit too. One still cycles, albeit with hi-vis and the other one is now nervous. It's like FFS people...
Le manfriend is a cyclist, so am I, I will ensure I keep banging away at good habits.
That or my driving instructor will kill me. Maybe that's a solution...Judge Dredd rights for driving instructors :P
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I'd have had a few sentences under my belt.
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Just switched on the Ride London coverage to see James Cracknell (who never tires of telling people that he'd be dead if hadn't been wearing a helmet when hit by a truck wing mirror at 60 mph therefore everyone has to wear one all the time) cross the finish line with his chinstrap dangling loosely somewhere near his adams apple.
He's now an even bigger pillock than I thought he was previously.
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^ A family tearjerker sells newspapers much better than white van man admitting he was on his cellphone and didn't check his mirrors (if he had any)
Note the comments, anything doubting the helmet propoganda is downvotes and
Sally Robinson, of the brain injury charity Headway, said: ‘There’s clear evidence that cycle helmets reduce the risk of sustaining skull and brain injuries.’
Not for bike VS car crashes there isn't.
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