Video clip ...... lucky child cyclist !
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I realise this would have been all the van drivers fault (before the cyclists apologists start), but this young mans mummy doesn't know how lucky she was this afternoon !
About 38 seconds in :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG8PQ1kOqDc&fea...
About 38 seconds in :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG8PQ1kOqDc&fea...
Lucky would have been the second cyclist trying to make it across and the van driver skidding to a halt and missing. That looks like typical riding from kids on bikes and when I see kids pissing about on roundabouts on foot or otherwise I'm already going slow just for this reason.
I had a close call the other day a kid on a bmx shot the wrong way around a car park, he appeared from behind a parked lwb van and was going fast enough to end up skidding to a halt right in-front of me while I was already stopped. However I was expecting a motorist (or kid on a bike for that matter) coming the wrong way around a one way car park or even the odd berk pushing a trolley while looking over their shoulder oblivious to what could be approaching, therefore I was already going extra slow as a precautionary measure, and I mean slow as in not even the car park's 10mph implied speed limit which would've been too fast in this instance.
I had a close call the other day a kid on a bmx shot the wrong way around a car park, he appeared from behind a parked lwb van and was going fast enough to end up skidding to a halt right in-front of me while I was already stopped. However I was expecting a motorist (or kid on a bike for that matter) coming the wrong way around a one way car park or even the odd berk pushing a trolley while looking over their shoulder oblivious to what could be approaching, therefore I was already going extra slow as a precautionary measure, and I mean slow as in not even the car park's 10mph implied speed limit which would've been too fast in this instance.
What that video didn't convey was, because the driver of the van had summer tyres on during a cold wet day, his reaction times were immediately higher, and his impressive forward thinking ability already anticipated the kid on the bike- therefore he had slowed down enough to avoid the accident.
In fact, the kid was in no danger at all.
In fact, the kid was in no danger at all.
The one thing that gets me at the moment regarding kids bikes. How are these BMX's that have NO brakes fitted allowed to be sold at all? The amount of times I've seen kids on these come close to either hitting pedestrians or not stopping for roads is getting silly now and they're always on the same kind of bike....
DanielSan said:
The one thing that gets me at the moment regarding kids bikes. How are these BMX's that have NO brakes fitted allowed to be sold at all? The amount of times I've seen kids on these come close to either hitting pedestrians or not stopping for roads is getting silly now and they're always on the same kind of bike....
They do come fitted with brakes, but the kids take them off, coz dey get in da way of doin tricks and showin skillz!! 
mk2 24v said:
They do come fitted with brakes, but the kids take them off, coz dey get in da way of doin tricks and showin skillz!!
Reminded of when I actually saw some skillz!!A while ago, in urban stop start I started and a kid literally jumped a bike off the pavement in front of me, I braked and he was stationary about a foot from the front of my car balanced on his front wheel. He looked at me sheepishly then bounced his bike, still all on the front wheel, backwards and with a big hop back onto the pavement.
We exchanged nods and I was on my way but I'm still a little freaked that that's possible.
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