Compulsary bike helmets?

[bobspud]

I have to agree with you. In a car or on a bike I often see cyclists who are asking to get run over. Cycling way too far out from the kerb.

Personally I ride in the gutter and keep as far away from other road users as possible(occasionally that means jumping red lights so I don't get caught in the race off the lights - junctions are always the narrowest places). But every day some car driver does not see me and gets way too close.

There is room for everyone on the road - with consideration on both sides its easy.

Totally agree, I normally come across as pretty anti-bike but actually I tend to make sure that they are safe around me and keep out their way as much as possible. It still surprises me how many of them still endanger themselves by encroaching into the space I am giving them to keep safe or worse still ride down blind spots or inside left turning vehicles.

[gingerjedi]

Off topic: 'Think Bike!' you know the stickers and posters you see everywhere that try give the impression that motorcyclists are killed by careless car drivers.

Gets my goat up when the reality (more often than not) is motorcyclist treat other road users as obstacles that must be overtaken at any cost even if that means undertaking and accelerating at 70-120mph in 1 second from my blind spot.

[AtW]

I reckon they should be compulsary.

Certainly in dangerous places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Oxford Street.

[Dallas]

We just need a cold snap and they will all be gone.

I remember last year the week after the clocks changed the number of cyclists caught out by the dark not having lights was possibly the scariest week of cycling in London I have seen.

The cops have been out on bishopsgate most mornings - it all helps.

[d000hg]

It's a push bike FFS.Helmets are just for posers.

If you get knocked off your bike by a car what difference does it make it's a push bike?

[SueEllen]

If you get knocked off your bike by a car what difference does it make it's a push bike?

Since I know plenty of cyclists that have been knocked off by male van drivers or dozy female 4x4 drivers the difference is whether hitting your head on the road at slow speed causes you a more serious injury or not.

Then again after seeing a left turning cyclist on the inside of a left turning van at a junction at the weekend who fell off it's not always the motorist's fault. The road had clear markings for the cyclist to get in front of the van but the cyclist seemed to think being on the inside of a vehicle in it's blind spot in a left turning only lane was a better idea.....

[bobspud]

The road had clear markings for the cyclist to get in front of the van but the cyclist seemed to think being on the inside of a vehicle in it's blind spot in a left turning only lane was a better idea.....

How do you get in front of a motor vehicle in moving traffic if it has its left indicator on and you are also turning left? Are you advocating that you would have carried on down the cycle lane on the left hand side just because there is a green or blue piece of tarmac? Would you force your way down that same space if you had a car that fitted?

[Mich the Tester]

How do you get in front of a motor vehicle in moving traffic if it has its left indicator on and you are also turning left?

Get down low in the bars, slipstream him for about 50 metres then click the small right gearshift twice, swerve to the left, smash 1.5 kW into the pedals and dive down the inside in Chris Hoy keirin style.


Top tip; do 20 years of training before you try this.

[bobspud]

I think this is the page from the highway code that nearly every cyclist in London has missed...

https://www.gov.uk/rules-for-cyclist...tions-72-to-75

End of Rule 72 "Do not ride on the INSIDE of traffic signalling or slowing down to turn left" ....

I thought I was going mad, because based on most cyclist behaviour I thought the rule of law was always be in the blind spot of left turning cars if you see a lorry most definitely ride down the left of it and if possible take out a few pedestrians while you are at it

[Mich the Tester]

I think this is the page from the highway code that nearly every cyclist in London has missed...

https://www.gov.uk/rules-for-cyclist...tions-72-to-75

End of Rule 72 "Do not ride on the INSIDE of traffic signalling or slowing down to turn left" ....

I thought I was going mad, because based on most cyclist behaviour I thought the rule of law was always be in the blind spot of left turning cars if you see a lorry most definitely ride down the left of it and if possible take out a few pedestrians while you are at it

I prefer to ride about 1 metre behind cars and blast along in the slipstream; you can get up to about 30mph without too much effort if you're mad enough to get really close.