9hrs is all it took!

[Finallylostit]

The new highway code to cause anger!

I went for my morning cycle - no issues did nothing different than I normally do.

Home, shower, jump in car to get food shopping. I live down a country road - wide enough for 2 cars to pass with care, wide enough for a car to over take a cyclist sticking to the left of the lane, with the required space at certain points. Locals all know the places to do it safely.

Today 1 cyclist riding down the middle of the lane - now unsafe for car to pull over to other lane and pass - brilliant

Was he considerate of other road users and pulled over- no.

As on the other side were 8 riders riding two abreast high fiving each other and doing the finger to the motorists. Shouting its the law twats!
Were they considerate of other road users no.

Some of the new laws i think are sensible -
but the ride in the middle of the road, even if there is a cycle lane because you don't feel like it - is asinine

2 abreast packs of mamils hunting on weekends as they venture out of London - when they are generally rude enough as it is - gives those cyclists who are arseholes a legal right to now be an arsehole.

Be considerate and pull over to let cars and vans pass -
that is as likely as Downing Street not having another party in a lockdown!

@OneTC

25 minutes with no chance to overtake? 🤔

I know people who have been at parties that long and not realised they are at a party...

I know people who have been at parties that long and not realised they are at a party...

25 mins!?
I’m sorry, I just don’t believe you.

I went for a long ride today and do think I saw a change in how vehicles behaved. Lots more room and consideration. There was a long sections of narrow single track roads and I did pull over to let vehicles pass, but then I’ve always done that.

Incidentally, I never thank vehicles for giving me room!

In reply to the sarcastic comments about indicators and brake lights etc.
It’s obviously the law for cars to have these.

Do you wear a helmet in your car?
I also assume your car is brightly coloured and visible, not black, grey, silver etc

@Grasping

In reply to the sarcastic comments about indicators and brake lights etc. It’s obviously the law for cars to have these.

Do you wear a helmet in your car?
I also assume your car is brightly coloured and visible, not black, grey, silver etc

I've never seen a black car.

@Grasping

In reply to the sarcastic comments about indicators and brake lights etc. It’s obviously the law for cars to have these.

Do you wear a helmet in your car?
I also assume your car is brightly coloured and visible, not black, grey, silver etc

But wouldn't you want these things, even if it wasn't the law? I know I like to have brake lights, so that the impatient person behind me knows I'm slowing down. I also like to have indicators, a means of sounding my approach or giving a warning, mirrors to see what's behind me & all these safety features, even if they 'look naff' or clash with my car's colour scheme!

@jgw1

@Tzimi
I don’t understand your argument.
You need indicators, brake lights etc by law.
I’m asking what additional things you do and have above the law, to keep you save and visible. As a cyclist I also have what’s required by law and make my own decisions about what I do and have over and above that.

It also riles me that motorists insist on telling me which route is best for me to take, like using the cycle path or lane, quiet roads etc. having never actually cycled that route themselves!

@Grasping

It also riles me that motorists insist on telling me which route is best for me to take, like using the cycle path or lane, quiet roads etc. having never actually cycled that route themselves!

You have to understand that because they can afford to pollute the world in their car they must be much more intelligent than any cyclist and so know best.

@Grasping

It also riles me that motorists insist on telling me which route is best for me to take, like using the cycle path or lane, quiet roads etc. having never actually cycled that route themselves!

Ha ha, in my case the path I use only goes straight on, so you can either go forwards or backwards! Those are the choices!

What I'm saying, is that ok, the law tells me to wear a seat belt and have brake lights, indicators etc, but I like to have these things anyway! Most of the traffic laws agree with common sense anyway, although I'm not so sure about the recent changes...

Tzimi
Ha ha, in my case the path I use only goes straight on, so you can either go forwards or backwards! Those are the choices!

You still have a choice of route though.
Cyclists don’t question why the motorists don’t take the ring road, or why they cut through villages to avoid a hold-up.

We have it here all the time. People moaning on a local FB group about cyclists not using the cycle path.
I posted some photos of this ‘amazing cycle path’. That shut them all up

@Grasping

We have it here all the time. People moaning on a local FB group about cyclists not using the cycle path. I posted some photos of this ‘amazing cycle path’. That shut them all up

Some motorists seem to get upset that I don't use a cyclepath on my commute to work. That would be the cyclepath on a pavement that has many children walking to school on it...

@Grasping

Tzimi Ha ha, in my case the path I use only goes straight on, so you can either go forwards or backwards! Those are the choices!

You still have a choice of route though.
Cyclists don’t question why the motorists don’t take the ring road, or why they cut through villages to avoid a hold-up.

Ah, I see what you're getting at. If it were me, I'd take a quieter route when cycling, if that was an option, so as not to have to contend with cars whizzing past all the time! But as you say, you don't always have a choice...

Good news for those who want to argue that cyclists don't pay road tax.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60251046

[quote jgw1]Good news for those who want to argue that cyclists don't pay road tax.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60251046[/quote]
Ha ha, another £35 Bn black hole to go with the £37 Bn for Covid track & trace!

If they are to take priority now they need to pay some form of road tax.

@Barney60

If they are to take priority now they need to pay some form of road tax.

In that case, pedestrians should pay road tax as well...