Suicidal Cyclist

Hanky_Panky

Altarf wrote: »

So there I am cracking along at say 60 mph down this narrow country lane in my shiny red sports car, and this cyclist shoots across my path.

Deciding on the correct speed for the conditions?

Firstly I'm not sure a cyclist would shoot across your path but any way the difference is a dog or small child isn't thinking about the dangers there might be whereas I would like to think that the cyclist on the road and you in your shiny red car might actually have a brain between you and actually think about the other road users around you. Maybe I'm asking too much of you.

brat

izzzzythedog wrote: »

going to work and back to beat the traffic and save a few quid ?:T

fleshy fools wobbling around the local lanes testing my brakes and turning ability in a 3.5 ton van in the name of leisure :question:

Im not the best driver in the world although i try to be :A but making it so easy to create a brand new side of the road floral display has to be questioned

All you need to know about WVM in a few pathetic sentences.

Altarf

Hanky_Panky wrote: »

I would like to think that the cyclist on the road and you in your shiny red car might actually have a brain between you and actually think about the other road users around you.

Missing the point that it was the cyclist speed that was making them unsafe on the cycle path.

Cycrow

Altarf wrote: »

You can be damn sure that the press would have a field day with any cyclist death on a cycle path. And yet nothing reported?

thats not true now is it

just look here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24823771

it mentions 3 deaths in 2013 on CS2.

how about this
http://www.london24.com/news/cycling/25m_upgrade_to_prevent_more_deaths_on_cycle_superhighway_2_from_bow_to_whitechapel_1_3780818

why spend £25M to prevent more deaths, if there hasn't been any

Hanky_Panky

Altarf wrote: »

Missing the point that it was the cyclist speed that was making them unsafe on the cycle path.

You're either being extremely obtuse or you really are as thick and ignorant as !!!!. Either way not a good impression.

It's simple really I treat other road users with courtesy and expect to be treated the same.

Altarf

Cycrow wrote: »

it mentions 3 deaths in 2013 on CS2.

CS2 isn't a cycle path. It is a strip of blue paint on the road.

Altarf

Hanky_Panky wrote: »

It's simple really I treat other road users with courtesy and expect to be treated the same.

But if you cycled slower you wouldn't put other people at risk.

RichardD1970

Altarf wrote: »

Missing the point that it was the cyclist speed that was making them unsafe on the cycle path.

Which is why they use the road.

Why should their commute take twice as long as it needs to be when there is a perfectly good road they can do 25mph on?

Hanky_Panky

Altarf wrote: »

But if you cycled slower you wouldn't put other people at risk.

So now you know why we use the road. It took some time but you got there eventually, well done.

Retrogamer

Altarf wrote: »

Cyclist 'logic' - Rather be dead than use a cycle path.

Idiot 'logic' - Create strawman arguments.

JustinR1979 wrote: »

Both in and out of central London this morning, both at rush hour times.
Dedicated cycle paths smoother than the road, but oh no we're all having to use lane 2 as there's some complete muppet cycling along the road causing all the traffic to back up.
Thick as pigshit, deserve getting knocked off.

Quite the hypocrite it seems.

Altarf wrote: »

I cannot recall seeing any report of a cyclist being killed whilst using a cycle path.

19,000 cyclists killed or injured on the road last year (109 killed, 3,143 seriously injured, 16,186 slightly injured).

Roads safer?

I fell off my bicycle on my local cycle route because some people put some sand down on on of the corners.

A lot of other people have had punctures along some stretches repeatedly. Turns out someone had been putting drawing pins under leafs that had fallen onto the bath so you can't see them.

The only time i've been close to having an accident on the road is when a motorist wasn't looking properly, or was looking properly and just didn't care.