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From: Conor on 22 Dec 2007 00:09 In article <MPG.21d533d985a5582698b3d7(a)news.individual.net>, Rob Morley says... > Me riding on a fairly narrow country road with a high stone hedge to the > left and a woodland to the right, approaching a right hand bend. Truck > starts to overtake me as we turn into the bend, sees something coming > the other way and pulls over on me, presumably in the belief that once > I'm behind the cab I must be gone. Actually I was nearly under his back > wheels, with nowhere to go. There was just room for me to pull back > level with the cab and thump the door rather hard, he did an emergency > stop and I squeezed between the cab and the hedge. If I had been a less > confident cyclist, or not fast enough to keep up with the truck, they'd > have been scraping me off the road. If I had been squashed, would it > have been my fault? > Bloody hell, you were lucky. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 22 Dec 2007 00:11 In article <MPG.21d5b2c05b55edd998b3d9(a)news.individual.net>, Rob Morley says... > Front - single wheels - just room to get through > Back - double wheels - not quite enough room to get through. Eh? Doesn't make any difference mate. In fact with the front wheels, you've a higher risk or getting ripped apart by the protruding wheel studs. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: NM on 22 Dec 2007 00:11 Conor wrote: > In article <MPG.21d533d985a5582698b3d7(a)news.individual.net>, Rob Morley > says... > >> Me riding on a fairly narrow country road with a high stone hedge to the >> left and a woodland to the right, approaching a right hand bend. Truck >> starts to overtake me as we turn into the bend, sees something coming >> the other way and pulls over on me, presumably in the belief that once >> I'm behind the cab I must be gone. Actually I was nearly under his back >> wheels, with nowhere to go. There was just room for me to pull back >> level with the cab and thump the door rather hard, he did an emergency >> stop and I squeezed between the cab and the hedge. If I had been a less >> confident cyclist, or not fast enough to keep up with the truck, they'd >> have been scraping me off the road. If I had been squashed, would it >> have been my fault? >> > Bloody hell, you were lucky. > So was the driver, those panels on the cab are really expensive, it's cheaper to get you with the rear wheels of the unit.
From: Conor on 22 Dec 2007 00:15 In article <5t1bjvF1bf4q1U1(a)mid.individual.net>, Peter Clinch says... > MrBitsy wrote: > > > When the cyclist has done everthing correctly, but the lorry drivers is > > being a twit, STAY AWAY from the lorry is sensible advice. Of course you > > could just sit there full of the thought you are in the right. > > And now we have an injection of context, but that rather changes things. > Elsewhere in the thread people have gone on about taking the primary > position, specifically /right in the way of a lorry/. So, do I do that > for an upcoming lorry, assuming the driver may be on the ball, or pick > up my bike and jump onto the pavement, assuning the worst case that he > won't be? And which of those is closer to "keep clear of lorries"? > Cycle to the Highway Code, maintain a steady course and make clear indications of your intentions. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: NM on 22 Dec 2007 00:24
Conor wrote: >> > Cycle to the Highway Code, maintain a steady course and make clear > indications of your intentions. > > Sounds like the avoidance of collision at sea regulations. |