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Suicidal Cyclist
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Just one other point:
"the well-documented beneficial effect of increased physical activity due to cycling resulted in about 9 times more gains in life-years than the losses in life years due to increased inhaled air pollution doses and traffic accidents."
Hartog, Boogaard, Nijland & Hoek:
Do the Health Benefits of Cycling Outweigh the Risks?
Environmental Health Perspectives Journal 118:1109–1116 (2010)
That's for roads in the Netherlands. Our roads are more dangerous than the Dutch ones, so the benefit here only outweighs the risk by seven times.
So who's being suicidal now?0 -
there was one time when a guy and girl were cycling on barclays bikes 2 abreast at a casual pace, it was in the evning so perhaps they drank becuause there were swaying left to right a little bit as well.
I wanted to pass and wanted them to go single file so I can drive by, i waited quite a while and hoped my headlights and engine noise would alert them but to no avail. then i did a quick beep to get their attention. the guy shouts something and waves a birdie at me.
The road widens a bit so then I mnage to overtake them still riding 2 abreast. Then a dose of instant karma follows, a police car was behind me all that time and didn;t even notice pulls drives up beside the cyclist and stops to talk to the cyclist,
Great thing about London is that police are enforcing cycle safety and people who ride through red lights get stopped and issued with tickets.0 -
This one time, I wanted to pass a cyclist, and I couldn't, and it irritated me.0
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Pedalists do not pay to use the road in answer to one post here.
Personally I feel they should all be required to pass a proficiency test and some sort of test in relation to the highway code as well as have insurance. Yes a lot are respectful of the rules and other road users but equally there are a lot of idiots in lycra out there who act with out care or caution and pure bad manners putting both themselves and others at riskI am responsible me, myself and I alone I am not the keeper others thoughts and words.0 -
Pedalists do not pay to use the road in answer to one post here.
Yes they do pay to use the road. It comes out of tax on everything for example council tax. Don't mention Road Tax that isn't what pay for the roads. Its more of an emissions tax as there are a few cars now that doesn't even pay that.0 -
Cyclists should have to pay for insurance, although I would think majority of accidents are caused through motorist faults, simple fact is cyclists cause accidents also, in fact several months ago one went into the back of my car as they weren't watching what was happening in front of them, I got a apology as they quickly sped off, but no cash to pay for the damaged paintwork, that had to come out of my hard earned.
If I caused a accident the cyclist would rightly expect some recompense for any damages also possibly payment for any injuries suffered, surely motorist should be entitled to same.0 -
They're really not hard to see in the daylight. At night time it makes no sense.
You'd be amazed how difficult it is to see a black dressed cyclist on a black bike against dark hedgerow, even in daylightverybigchris wrote: »
A whole peleton yes (who would even try to over take a whole peleton oanyway) but 2-3, no.Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence and face your future without fear0 -
londonTiger wrote: »there was one time when a guy and girl were cycling on barclays bikes 2 abreast at a casual pace, it was in the evning so perhaps they drank becuause there were swaying left to right a little bit as well.
Sounds like love to me LT, drunk on love.0 -
Pedalists do not pay to use the road in answer to one post here.0
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Pedalists do not pay to use the road in answer to one post here.
Could you explain why anyone would think this, please?
Could it be anything to do with Road Tax which some folks even now refer to as 'Road Fund Licence' still haven't realised was abolished in 1937?
My old granny - who has neither a car nor a bicycle - contributes to the upkeep of the roads every time she pays VAT on a pack of chocolate biscuits!0
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