Cycling question - signalling left and right?

Cycrow

Unfortunately there are some roads where signalling just makes things worse, so i try to avoid it.

theres a roundabout i go round, and i used to signal to the right before the round about as i move to the right side of the lane.

but all this does is seem to encourage the cars behind to accelerate and overtake you, so now i dont bother. Instead i position myself to the right first then signal right to the cars coming the other way once i reach the roundabout

Altarf

Davie-G wrote: »

I don't signal too often turning left, but a good look about is a must (pedestrians mostly listen and rarely look)

I have yet to find a cyclist that understands and applies Highway Code rule 170, and not just expect the pedestrian to jump out of their way.

Yorkie1

OP, on the confidence front, look to see whether your local council runs adult cycling classes to help build up confidence on the roads.

esuhl

Altarf wrote: »

I have yet to find a cyclist that understands and applies Highway Code rule 170, and not just expect the pedestrian to jump out of their way.

Maybe that's because of how people are conditioned to drive. Motorists expect pedestrians to jump out of their way... even when they unexpectedly turn without indicating! I guess it's just part of the mentality of having a vehicle big enough to mow people down.

So, I presume the cyclists you've seen are just taking their lead from drivers. If the majority of road users bully pedestrians with their vehicles, then maybe some cyclists see that as the acceptable norm.

Johnmcl7

Altarf wrote: »

I have yet to find a cyclist that understands and applies Highway Code rule 170, and not just expect the pedestrian to jump out of their way.

I don't find as a cyclist you have a choice, if I didn't give way to pedestrians I'd be crashing into them constantly. When I started cycling I quickly realised it's fairly normal for pedestrians not to look before they step out as they assume if they can't hear anything, it's safe which doesn't work with bikes which are mostly quiet.

John

armyknife

altarf wrote: »

i have yet to find a car that understands and applies highway code rule 170, and not just expect the pedestrian to jump out of their way.

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Altarf

esuhl wrote: »

So, I presume the cyclists you've seen are just taking their lead from drivers. If the majority of road users bully pedestrians with their vehicles, then maybe some cyclists see that as the acceptable norm.

I doubt it, but taking your logic, where do cyclists learn their colour blindness from?

Elfbert

Altarf wrote: »

I doubt it, but taking your logic, where do cyclists learn their colour blindness from?

Drivers too... I cycle to work and back every day through London and I've never waited at 1 big junction on the A40 without seeing at least 3 cars go through the reds. Not even late ambers - definite reds. And the distance between the lights and the ped crossing there is such that they often then nearly mow down the people crossing in their haste to zoom across the hatched box and over the crossing before the traffic comes across. It's not the greatest of junctions, design wise, because those same drivers seem to be in the wrong lane quite frequently, and do some amazing cutting in - one day a guy in a van couldn't get into the lane he wanted so instead drove across a traffic island, smashing aside the two lit bollards!

I've never seen a bike jump the reds there because it would be suicide.

There's good and bad drivers/riders in charge of every mode of transport it seems.

Altarf

Elfbert wrote: »

Drivers too...

At least drivers seem to be a little bit embarrassed when they are a bit of an 'amber gambler', rather than the arrogant cyclists who will plow on through a red light that has been red for minutes.

custardy

Altarf wrote: »

At least drivers seem to be a little bit embarrassed when they are a bit of an 'amber gambler', rather than the arrogant cyclists who will plow on through a red light that has been red for minutes.

Are they? Based on what?