Apart from that they're OK.
Apart from that they're OK.
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Big Tone
I've never once come close to hitting a cyclist, ever!
Why? If you read the Highway Code you will know how to act when you are uncertain of a cyclist's behaviour and weather circumstances etc.
Actually, it just comes down to common sense. Leave cyclists out of it! Why shouldn't pedestrians also have insurance in case THEY jump in front of you then???
Where do you draw the line???
Why? If you read the Highway Code you will know how to act when you are uncertain of a cyclist's behaviour and weather circumstances etc.
Actually, it just comes down to common sense. Leave cyclists out of it! Why shouldn't pedestrians also have insurance in case THEY jump in front of you then???
Where do you draw the line???
Ya jus' jealous cuz they got Lycra bollex.
That's another one 90. How many seconds is the go faster lycra gonna shave off their journey to work. NONE
And if you're driving along when some idiot rides out in front of you from a side street causing you to hit something else and smash your car up, you'll still feel the same will you?
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Big Tone
It's never happened or ever come close sooey. It's called spatial awareness. If my space is small, (narrow road, poor vision, school kids around, neaby hedges etc. etc.), I adjust my speed to the conditions.
It's very rare, (as often claimed in insurance excuses or SMIDSY), that "he/it came from nowhere". That's a bull.sh1t fat excuse!
NOT saying cyclists can't be wrong a.holes! But I question drivers who don't have spatial awareness and believe anything can just materialise in front as if from nowhere; like a comet...
What highway code based test have THEY taken, to allow them the right to be on the highway??????
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Big Tone
I never said there shouldn't be a test Bean
I think there should. I'm old enough to remember Proficiency tests and, wait for it, The Green Cross Code and, wait for another, pedestrians.So what's the argument here. ..?
Nothing to do with it. It would have a completely different set of rules.
My my big tone, what a smug fcker you are. Spatial awareness hey, when I did my PSV years ago they called it road awareness, the art of reading the road in front of you. I've been driving over thirty years, cars, vans, busses and taxis. In all of that time I've only ever had one minor shunt caused by me (piping some birds ass)
But I've had three smashes which were absolutely not caused by me and which I absolutely could not have avoided with all of the spatial awareness in the world, short of seeing the future. One of those accidents in particular I was driving along a main road when a car full of young dheads came out of a side street at about forty. he couldn't see me and I couldn't see him, buildings were in the way. he wasn't turning left or right, he was going straight across into the side street on the opposite side of the main road.
He took the front end off my car, I was lucky he didn't kill me. HE MATERIALISED AS IF FROM NOWHERE.
But the one I'll never forget was the accident I never had.
I was a taxi driver and had two women in the cab, I stopped to drop one off and she spent ages getting out talking to her mate, I was cursing her.
When she did get out I started off again and getting to the next junction the lights changed just as I arrived. Being a taxi driver nine times out of ten I'd have gone through on amber. This time I stopped and as I did so some cnt roared through the lights coming from my right. again completely blind because of buildings. this bstrd was doing a ton if he was doing anything, and the light he went through MUST have been red because mine was only still changing. If I hadn't have stopped that time I would have been smeared half a mile up the road with my passenger.
So spatial awareness is no guarantee of anything at all.
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Big Tone
That's ignorance from someone who obviously doesn't cycle. Lycra is being, has been, dubbed as something only a narcissistic ****** would wear. Yet it has a purpose and we don't mind when used on the track or Tour de France or win a medal or some hot wench is wearing them....Ya jus' jealous cuz they got Lycra bollex.
That's another one 90. How many seconds is the go faster lycra gonna shave off their journey to work. NONE
Start cycling mate and see what works.
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Big Tone
@sooey. I said "its rare" and some cyclists are nuts! I live in the UKs 2nd largest city and there aint much that hasn't tested me.
So please give me some credit before name calling. You're obviously a good driver. Respect to you.
MOST accidents with cyclists, even the idiots, I believe are preventable by a good driver.
Is that better sooey?
So please give me some credit before name calling. You're obviously a good driver. Respect to you.
MOST accidents with cyclists, even the idiots, I believe are preventable by a good driver.
Is that better sooey?
