Just as a matter of curiosity, if you did go round a blind bend in a sensible manner and at a legal speed, then all of a sudden you see the large rear end of a potential tin of Tesco's Ravioli and you hit the brakes(as you would) and your off, How would your insurance look at it?
Maybe we should all put our bikes in trailers and take them to the track - plenty of people out there feeling that way - especially if they live on the A272.. I have first hand experience of being the victim of road rage whilst riding someone else's 80k stallion It was truly horrible and old couple tried to squeeze past me and their mirror hit my leg - they sped past and then swerved the car blocking my path and got our ranting obsceneties I hope none of you dish out or experience serious road rage We are not stuck in traffic we are traffic Ps cyclists are still wankers
Having worked in a children's A&E for a few years hold this image in your minds every time you drive around a bend. I've seen the real version. Imagine there's a child lying in the road who's fallen off his bike. Can you stop? No? You couldn't see around the bend? Was it the child's fault? There's no excuse or reason for any of this (or the anti cyclist crap). First there were pedestrians. Then cyclists. Then motor vehicles. It's a shared space. Whatever mental leap you have to take with that is worth taking. I've also gone too fast into the engine block of a bus and where as I feel that he should have checked his mirror, blind spot, indicated, not driving a bus at 76yr old etc etc etc I still crawled away with a crushed vertebra and am lucky to be alive/walking. If it'd been a horse I'd likely have been in prison. Wasn't speeding, just 'bad luck'.. which is another way of saying too fast to pass an unpredictable situation. As for 'the law' on passing horses.... same way you'd drive past a 5 year old on a bicycle.
Mate, I don't mind folk having an opinion or point blank arguing with me, but I don't listen to folk who come on here telling me to do stuff, or what I have to do in future with my mental leap !!! Its none of your business, have an opinion by all means, but please don't insist I either roll with it or bow down to your vast experience and knowledge and change my views !! Oh, and lighten up about the lycra clad weirdo's, most of it is tongue in cheek
Mate, I don't mean to have a pop, but folk generally don't respond to being preached to about what they should envisage at each corner, or how they should change their future mental leaps. I think we get your point, it just sounded a bit school teacher bollocking me thats all Cheers. Wayne
I do. Itsaride. And its 'up yours' you moany old sod. Quit the self entitlement as shit happens. Quit being patronising too. Coz you aint the smartest cookie in the thread. Something like that. With a smile. He needs the bollocking. Hes been naughty.
Again, that's me told Boots, and if it makes you feel better, I am currently giving myself a fecking right good talking to. There, that'll learn me, wrist slapped !!!
I don't think I did enough bollocking at work today, I'll try harder tomorrow so it doesn't seep out here.
I was going to let this thread go but for this paragraph. Are you suggesting that your employer expects you to push the boundaries of what is reasonable and safe, putting other road users at risk, in order to meet their targets and you are complicit in this? Because that is what it sounds like.
John, I don't wanna rant again, but are you not taking that statement just a little too literally ? Could @broke not be saying, he merely has a job to do, and therefore can not stop at every single blind spot, corner or hill crest to check for obstructions ?
Are you suggesting common sense takes precedence over the rule of law ? I agree that stopping around a bend is not a good idea because some idiot behind might come round the corner at high speed, be unable to stop and slam into the back of you but surely that reinforces the idea that going round bends at those speeds is not a very sensible thing to do. Have you never read the section in Roadcraft that states the closer the person behind you is the bigger the safety margin you should allow in front of you so that you don't have to emergency brake ? If someone tailgates me I slow down, most eventually get the message. And before you ask, or assume, no, I am not some IAM zealot with a polite notice on my back. I just hate inconsiderate and aggressive riding / driving.
No one is suggesting that he stops, merely that he slows to a speed from which he can stop if required to do so by the conditions he meets around the bend. Is this too difficult to understand ?
