Cycle Roundabouts
- Thread starter Lickashot
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Eh?? That is an absurd comment. Exactly how will insurance, helmets and number plates make the slightest difference. I've tried the first two, as have thousands of others, and found they have zero effect. Why will having a numberplate magically afford protection to either the cyclist or anybody else?
Looking at the expression on the face of the guy at the back......are you sure there's not something else going on ?Why are they spending all those money for cyclists i don't know...
It appears that they like more trespassing and ruining peoples afternoon than using the cycle lanes...
I had this lot popping out in front of my highseat the other day, but wasn't sure if the game dealer will take them...
Ade8mm
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It would allow dashcams to film lawbreaking cyclists and then dob them in to the police (Like so many vigilante cyclists are doing to car drivers)
And achieves nothing to address the major problem which is the disproportionate rate at which motorists kill and injure cyclists. Certainly cameras on buses does nothing to inhibit their dangerous driving.
While cyclists jumping lights may be annoying (although frequently done for safety reasons, to avoid motorists driving dangerously 18 inches behind them and clipping them as they pass), it seems less annoying to me than being killed or seriously injured. I realise there is a subset of the population so thoughtlessly officious that someone breaking a rule is actually more painful to them than being physically injured, but I always hope they're a small minority.
bluesako
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apthorpe just answer me one question, why when it is illegal to ride a cycle on a public footpath and pavement, why do cyclists break the law every time they ride on a pavement? i dont have a problem with all the decent considerate cyclists who use the roads good on them go for it enjoy it bs
You're surely not suggesting that any car-drivers break the law, are you? Next you'll you'll be suggesting they sometimes cause death or injury to other road-users.
Perhaps an act of parliament could be passed to make evidence given by cyclists inadmissible in court? That seems fair, I think. It would give the the poor motorists a chance at any rate.
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I imagine they do it for the same reasons motorists break speed-limits, drive too close to cyclists, park up and sit in the car with their engines running, smoke draw with driving, run red lights, sit in the outer lanes on the motorway, drive round corners one-handed while on the 'phone, update Facebook at the lights etc. etc.
Grannysmith
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Might be absurd to you mate but at least if the tw!ts that ride our roads causing delays and hazards and do ride irresponsibly or dangerously they can at least be reported.
Just like cars and lorries can be now. i have a sign on my lorry saying if this vehicle is not being driven responsibly ring the number below
Why should cyclists have an exemption?
Insurance would pay for medical costs just like cars and lorries do and not impact the nhs,
Plus of course there would be tracebility for victims of accidents rather than just the colour of their lycra
Just like cars and lorries can be now. i have a sign on my lorry saying if this vehicle is not being driven responsibly ring the number below
Why should cyclists have an exemption?
Insurance would pay for medical costs just like cars and lorries do and not impact the nhs,
Plus of course there would be tracebility for victims of accidents rather than just the colour of their lycra
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bluesako
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i am not in the slightest interested what motorists do they dont drive on pavements or hassle me when im walking like moronic cyclists do bs
Unless they're cycling on a motorway, you have no legitimate right to be annoyed that you wish to travel faster than them. Your proposal achieves precisely zero and does nothing to mitigate the main issue which is the excessive rate at which stupid, aggressive and intolerant drivers kill and injure cyclists, and the generally appallingly dangerous manner in which motorists drive near cyclists.
It's not a question of exemption, it's a question of it being pointless to pile useless regulation onto a group of people who, in point of fact, aren't actually a problem. You can indulge a stupid pet irritation to your heart's discontent, but the facts are on record.
Grannysmith
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And so would the facts of deaths and injuries caused by cyclists if they could be traced
They are recorded and traced and it is a vanishingly insignificant problem.
Grannysmith
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B@@ll@cks!
How are they traced?
How are they traced?
glasshalffull
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Had this sighting frequently amongst other romantic liaisons off roaders hiker's jeep club etc etc. Hence the reason I stopped paying the £1100 yearly feesWhy are they spending all those money for cyclists i don't know...
It appears that they like more trespassing and ruining peoples afternoon than using the cycle lanes...
I had this lot popping out in front of my highseat the other day, but wasn't sure if the game dealer will take them...
So I can find out who it was ( who scratched my car whilst trying to undertake me at the traffic lights) and then sped away over the red lights ignoring others crossing on green that's why.
If cyclalist weren't so suicidal thinking they are invunrable because they wearing lycra then so many wouldn't end up in a&e. They're mental around here 2 abreast on single lane roads and look at you like you tried to kill them when you meet on a blind bend. Cyclalist verses jcb or tractor theres only one winner playing this game a chicken
You think you'll have access to the database of registration numbers??? Dream on.
The disproportionate rate of cycle injuries can be explained by
1. Disproportionate vulnerability Size and hardness of car versus bike - Cars are made to exacting passenger safety standards - bikes are obviously not
2. Conspicuity
3. Rider behaviour
4. disproportionate size of bikes combined with 1,2,3.
There are new rules about passing 1.5M from cyclists and many with helmets tend to ensure motorists do exactly that. Cyclist are perhaps more 'militant' than they perhaps should be.
