Cold wet concrete

got knocked off my bike on saturday afternoon.

guy said "ive been driving in london for 20 years, and this is the first time ive hit a cyclist"

i asked him if he wanted a medal as i peeled myself off the concrete.

He was in one of those gwiz car things, the mess my bike made of his bonnet was amazing, good old italian steel!!really good scratches and dents.... just like in my leg too.

just thought id share..

perhaps he's been trying for 20 years, and only just suceeded. It would fit with someone stupid enough to buy a g-wiz.

At least the g-wizzers are looking out for the environment if not cyclists.

perhaps he's been trying for 20 years, and only just suceeded. It would fit with someone stupid enough to buy a g-wiz.

Yeah, right. So stupid, not like these guys eh?

man you're lucky. could have been something much more dangerous like a van...

At least the g-wizzers are looking out for the environment if not cyclists.

I think most of them are looking out for their expenditure on the congestion charge. A g-wizz burns a load of fossil fuels, it just doesn't do it under the bonnet.

Yeah, right. So stupid, not like these guys eh?

A cherokee is built to some kind of safety standard, and is crash tested. A g-wizz ain't.

you should have thrown a mountain bike at his head.

@Jay1 - hope your OK and not hurting too bad.

Should have said that in the first post. sorry.

you should have thrown a mountain bike at his head.

I'm with Aidan on this one. When I am elected to be king of the world this will be the punishment for all road traffic offenses. The number of times and the number of halfords specials that are thrown at your head depend on the severity of the crime.

willski- cheers, im ok just cuts and bruises nothing too bad.

yeah if had been a van it would have been worse

also a bloke on a mountain bike went past just as i was getting up, he checked to see if i was ok but neglected to throw his bike at the driver...clearly doesnt know the rules!

A cherokee is built to some kind of safety standard, and is crash tested.

I'm sure that's all very reassuring for the occupants.... Not so much for a cyclist being hit by one.

I'm sure that's all very reassuring for the occupants.... Not so much for a cyclist being hit by one.

NCAP standards cover injury to people outside vehicles as well as inside - which is why you can't get old school bullbars anymore.

G-wizz vehicles are built to no standards whatsoever. Would they hurt you more in a crash? no one knows

I'm no defender of 4x4s. Driving pretty-ed up farm vehicles around city centres doesn't make any sense. I'm just saying that driving something that has been constructed to exploit loopholes and avoid safety regs doesn't make a whole bunch of sense either.

NCAP standards cover injury to people outside vehicles as well as inside - which is why you can't get old school bullbars anymore.

G-wizz vehicles are built to no standards whatsoever. Would they hurt you more in a crash? no one knows

I'm no defender of 4x4s. Driving pretty-ed up farm vehicles around city centres doesn't make any sense. I'm just saying that driving something that has been constructed to exploit loopholes and avoid safety regs doesn't make a whole bunch of sense either.

without meaning to sound a cunt, is the last comment about being built to exploit loopholes based on fact?

I find it hard to beleive that the laws-that-be allow something on the road that has no safety tests or crash testing. Surely, if "they" have outlawed bullbars on H&S grounds, then they have outlawed other non-safe vehicles and equipment too?

I'd prefer to be hit by a G-Wiz doing 40 than a 4x4 doing 30 anyday. If they bonnet bends the way described, at least there's some 'give' in it, unlike the inch thick armour a Jeep Cherokee offers it's inhabitants

i'd prefer not to be hit at all. by either.

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article2192285.ece

Small wonder this is not classified as a car by the European Union. They call it a quadracycle, which means it can be sold without having to pass the usual safety tests. Pity, because a recent test by Top Gear Magazine found that it was unsafe at pretty much any of its speeds. All two of them.
Actually, I should be serious because boffins using the much respected Euro NCAP test procedures found a number of design flaws that could kill or maim. You may save the planet with this car. But you could well lose a leg in the process.

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