>Thanks for all those comments. I wont buy one given what's been said.
>But I will try to improve my positioning. I tend to cycle very close
>to the pavement, thinking this was the best way to go but it's
>obviously not. Maybe this will stop vehicles speeding inches past me.
>I do find most drivers are quite good and give ample room when they
>pass, but I find black taxi drivers will often overtake very close. I
>know I'm often in a bus lane which is shared by black cabs but I don't
>have this problem with buses. Thanks again for all the advice. /dave
Cycling you need to be at least a metre out from the kerb. Honest. Drivers can
be thoughtless, incompetent and downright dangerous, but I don't think the vast
majority *intend* to cause a cyclist harm. BUT, if you cycle in the gutter you
are sending out what is in effect a sub-concious message that you don't need
room and drivers *will* think they can overtake you without having to pull out.
If you learn to cycle *assertively* and this means cycling *in traffic* as you
*are* traffic, then you will find that drivers, on the whole, will give you
more room when the overtake. You are entitled to use the road - use it, don't
cycle as if you are cowering in the gutter
There's a road in Dereham which
is on the narrow side for a two-lane road. I see cyclists using the double
yellow lines down the side as a cycle lane... this is *nuts*. The effect is
they get cars going by them at relatively high speed and the cyclists end up
wobbling along, in the "cycle lane", over the drain covers and in the broken
glass & stones which inhabit the gutter. This is much, much more dangerous than
cycling out from the gutter so cars *have* to slow for you and wait until it is
safe to overtake.
Cheers, helen s
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