Cars v cyclist

[I Know Nothing]

Interesting video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5qSfW3UvI8

[GranpaB]

Go on, give us a clue..

Blood and guts everywhere?

[I Know Nothing]

Who breaks the law the most?

[Solocle]

I Know Nothing said:

Who breaks the law the most?

*Ahem* speed limits *ahem*

[gazza285]

I Know Nothing said:

Interesting video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5qSfW3UvI8

I got bored half way through.

[Disco You]

The poor infrastructure is to blame for a significant number of these.

There needs to be an ASL for cyclists to wait in safely in front of the motor traffic.

And the reason there are so many cyclists on the pavement is because they are coming from Burgess Park behind the shot, which comes out there with no legal or sensible place for cyclists to come out to rejoin the road, especially if they want to go in the direction of the shot.

[Super Sonic]

Another car Vs cyclist thread, best get the popcorn in. Bear in mind who causes the most fatalities.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

Super Sonic said:

Another car Vs cyclist thread, best get the popcorn in. Bear in mind who causes the most fatalities.

Exactly. I'd like to see the stats for for how many fatalities caused by drivers vs cyclists..

[BertBert]

Super Sonic said:

Another car Vs cyclist thread, best get the popcorn in. Bear in mind who causes the most fatalities.

Best just wander off and not come back to the same old tedious nonsense as I am going to do.

[Boosted LS1]

It's those tight leotards that drives them crazy. They're like lemmings out for a fight.

[frisbee]

Boosted LS1 said:

It's those tight leotards that drives them crazy. They're like lemmings out for a fight.

Yep, a couple of olives and a cocktail sausage wrapped in Lycra drives motorists into a sexual frenzy!

[sunnygym]

Don’t think it’s cars v cyclists, you get ignorant idiots in both groups who give everyone else a bad name. Problem is the person on a bike is gonna come off worse when it all goes wrong. Also the cycle lanes are complete st and half the time are just as dangerous as riding on the road

[Boosted LS1]

frisbee said:

Boosted LS1 said:

It's those tight leotards that drives them crazy. They're like lemmings out for a fight.

Yep, a couple of olives and a cocktail sausage wrapped in Lycra drives motorists into a sexual frenzy!

Only if you like that sort of thing. They could wear skirts, lol.

[Solocle]

Boosted LS1 said:

Only if you like that sort of thing. They could wear skirts, lol.

You try the chafing on a 100-200 mile ride without lycra.

I suppose my arse is so fat it's in three different counties there. Oh well.

[Boosted LS1]

It's really not my cup of tea but each to their own. ;-) just kidding.

[daddy cool]

Solocle said:

Bono's let himself go.

[slipknotted]

These types of city cyclists do piss me off, they blast past me at red lights and unless their wheels say 'DURA-ACE' on them I will likely ride past them before the next junction, normally uttering the words "red light, do it properly".

[I Know Nothing]

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

Super Sonic said:

Another car Vs cyclist thread, best get the popcorn in. Bear in mind who causes the most fatalities.

Exactly. I'd like to see the stats for for how many fatalities caused by drivers vs cyclists..

The figure 61% cars, 39% cyclists, although it depends on the age group, under 15 it is nearly 80% while 40 to 54 group it is 23%.

2.5% of pedestrians deaths are as a resault resault of a accident between a cyclist compared to a motor vehicles each year.

But then we need to considering the number of motor vehicles on the road and distances travelled/use compared with cycles.

These figures are for fatalities.

[Gweeds]

Not 2.5%.

2.5 pedestrians.

Of around 400 pedestrians killed in collisions in the UK each year, about 2.5 involve a bicycle. Put it another way: more than 99% of pedestrian collision deaths in this country involve a motorised vehicle.

[I Know Nothing]

Disco You said:

The poor infrastructure is to blame for a significant number of these.

There needs to be an ASL for cyclists to wait in safely in front of the motor traffic.

And the reason there are so many cyclists on the pavement is because they are coming from Burgess Park behind the shot, which comes out there with no legal or sensible place for cyclists to come out to rejoin the road, especially if they want to go in the direction of the shot.

Ok so maybe it is excusable to go pass the line to wait for the lights to change but to ignore the light all together?

as for these riding on the pavement maybe there isn't a sensible place to rejoin the road but you can get off the cyycle when on the pavement and many are crossing the road and continuing on the pavement