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Forum: Cycling Topic: Racing home |
| Bewildered |
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 17:03
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My trusty steed is in fact a £500 Claud Butler. I don't thing spending another £1000 would actually make me any faster. As they say, it's the engine that counts.  |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Driving standards & the rain |
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 16:11
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| I don't think so, it's something I've observed as a motorist and as a pedestrian. It may be like a lot of things that seem to be magnified in a city the size of London. The moment there's a touch of heavy rain here, the traffic just changes into mayhem and gridlock. A guy I work beside also lives ne... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Driving standards & the rain |
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 15:49
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| I judge drivers ability on how close they come to knocking me off and killing me. If someone passes me in a down pour and their wing mirror makes contact with my arm. I remonstrate and they threaten to kill me next time, I would say that's bad driving ability. Would you not agree? Absolutely. It's ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Driving standards & the rain |
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 15:31
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SafeSpeed wrote: Bewildered wrote: If you're a Londoner living in North Scotland, where's that, Gretna!!  Gretna is around 5 hours south of here. - I'm 30 miles North of Inverness.
That must make some place in Sutherland then, does it? |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Driving standards & the rain |
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 15:30
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| I judge drivers ability on how close they come to knocking me off and killing me. If someone passes me in a down pour and their wing mirror makes contact with my arm. I remonstrate and they threaten to kill me next time, I would say that's bad driving ability. Would you not agree? |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Driving standards & the rain |
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 15:23
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| Can anyone explain why driving standards slip when it rains. I have been puzzling about this since it was first posted. I don't believe that I see a significant drop in driving standards when it rains and I've been trying to figure out what might make the difference. It's possible that it's a recen... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Racing home |
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 13:52
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| I had a race with another roadie on the way home last night reaching speeds of nearly 30 mph, it was really fun. I was ahead by a bit, stopped at a red light, saw the other guy coming up behind (slow coach) and as I went to speak to him, he just zoomed passed straight through the red. :x Was not amu... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Driving standards & the rain |
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 17:08
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| Can anyone explain why driving standards slip when it rains. This is something that has confused me as a motorist/cyclist and as a pedestrian. I know it's not everybody, but it is enough people to make the road a more dangerous place. It's almost as if motorists don't realise that they're not going ... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Use your head - stop at red |
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:19
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| I was thinking about this post on my cycle home last night. I came to crossroads, where 5 cars jumped the red by easily 3 or 4 seconds, enough time for the other lights to have turned green. All the motorist take off from the green light and next thing there's chaos, people leaning on there horns, s... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Use your head - stop at red |
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 17:15
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| That's 3 to 4 seconds!! not three quarters of a second!! |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Use your head - stop at red |
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 17:03
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| Hmmm, so if a cyclist runs a red light that has been red for 30 seconds, he's more in the wrong than the car that runs it after 3/4 seconds. I thought the definition of running a red light was......errrr........running a red light!! |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Use your head - stop at red |
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 17:00
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| Nope, I'm not talking about people going through on amber, I'm talking definite red. I see it every day. Maybe some motorists don't see them because they're not paying full attention!! Try sitting at the traffic lights at Gypsy Corner on the A40 and then come back and tell me you've never seen a car... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Use your head - stop at red |
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 16:17
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LOL 
Unfortunatley some days they are which is very frustrating. It's only 5 miles!!!! |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Use your head - stop at red |
| Bewildered |
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 15:55
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| I have 23 sets of traffic lights on my commute (cycle) of which I stop at all 23 of them. It angers me to see cyclists jumping lights, but, the cars that jump them anger me even more! Whenever I see a thread/discussion about RLJers, motorists are always taking the moral high ground. But I see very f... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Bike Lane .. For Every School! Near You Now! |
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 17:24
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| There's a problem with educating stupid people. Not all stupid people are uneducated. Stupidity isn't measured on IQ, it's like a disease, not sure if it's contagious, but by the standard of most drivers in London I think it might be!! |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Bike Lane .. For Every School! Near You Now! |
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 16:49
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| And that's why people come off the road. they are neither perceptive or observant = stupid! So someone with lack of awareness, is going to be a greater danger if they are going fast, compared to if they were going slower. If you run into a lamp post, it hurts more than if you walk into it, doesn't it? |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Bike Lane .. For Every School! Near You Now! |
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 16:28
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| As for answering the earlier question what stops me from going off on NSL roads...the answer....I'm not stupid. so you don't need a sign to tell you the SAFE speed to take a corner even though it might only be a quarter of the prevailing speed limit? Hmmm. I think the problem is individual percepti... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Bike Lane .. For Every School! Near You Now! |
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 16:13
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| Speed limits are there to stop stupid people from leaving the road at 90mph on reaching the first corner! Doesn't work though does it? We still have hundrends of fatalities and thousands of serious injuries (or whatever) each year because vehicles leave the roads on bends; some speeding; some not. ... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Bike Lane .. For Every School! Near You Now! |
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 15:44
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| My driving instructor taught me not to speed. but what he should have taught you is to drive at a safe speed for the conditions. It's funny that you never really ever see people going to slow for the conditions, it always seems to be to fast for the conditions. Speed limits are there to stop stupid... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Should cyclists be insured? |
| Bewildered |
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 14:58
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Replies: 55
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| How many cars are damaged by cyclists? The number is probably very very low. I would imagine more cars are damaged by shopping trolleys at the local supermarket than by cyclists. In my experience as a cyclist, you'd be lucky to have the chance to exchange insurance details with most drivers, they'd ... |
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