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Title: The Highway Code
Post by: Sheila on January 23, 2022, 09:36:37 AM
Cyclists are now advised to ride in the middle of the lane and two abreast.

It's not as bad as the smart motorway idea (same idiot with no common sense?) but it doesn't seem safe to me.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: hugh on January 23, 2022, 09:47:56 AM
Better idea, deal with the way cyclists dress. Riding in the middle of a lane far more dangerous if they cannot be seen.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Sheila on January 23, 2022, 10:15:34 AM
Yes, I put a message out to parents on our local facebook page.  Every time we walk after dark, down the fairly main road at the end of our street, we see teenage boys dressed in black and with no lights riding along the road.  Some of them do wheelies or are texting. 

Imagine the upset to the parents and the motorist if they were accidentally hit.  The response was immediate with one driver saying he had nearly hit one.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Scrumpy on January 23, 2022, 11:31:00 AM

We have many cyclist in this area.. Often a road is closed down our lanes because there is a cycling even going on..
I find some to be ignorant.. and having little regard for neither motorists or pedestrians.. and the speed.. They usually travel in two's and are reluctant to separate to allow a motorist to pass..
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: -Oy- on January 23, 2022, 11:59:02 AM
I'm all in favour of cyclists being more visible. That includes road position where safe but only if we can see them and they are travelling at a speed that doesn't impair the flow of traffic. I'm also in favour of them having mandatory insurance!
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: klondike on January 23, 2022, 12:05:48 PM
Insurance isn't a bad idea but with no identification marks impossible to police.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: -Oy- on January 23, 2022, 12:09:58 PM
Quote from: klondike on January 23, 2022, 12:05:48 PM
Insurance isn't a bad idea but with no identification marks impossible to police.

True - so some sort of marking system is needed.

I also think that if there's a dedicated cycle lane, especially one of the ones separated from the main carriageweay, that should be mandatory to use too.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Jacqueline on January 23, 2022, 06:37:14 PM
I don't drive. and I have never been on a bike in my life.  As a pedestrian I have had near misses with bloody cyclists tearing along behind me, I am not that quick they ring their little bells at me,  I would like to poke their bells where the sun don't shine, I swear at them :angry:  The people who use a bike as a form of transport to get around are OK, but its the idiots in their disgusting lycra shorts that tear around faster than cars and use the road as a race track that I hate with a passion.  God, I am a grump old woman :angry:
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: zoony on January 23, 2022, 07:42:39 PM
Jacq.. Have you heard of MAMILs?.. (Middle-Aged-Men-In-Lycra) :grin:  You might google it for a laugh. It's what the boy-bikers become after marriage and kids.. If they've not killed themselves first.. :wink:
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: -Oy- on January 23, 2022, 08:12:09 PM
Quote from: zoony on January 23, 2022, 07:42:39 PM
Jacq.. Have you heard of MAMILs?.. (Middle-Aged-Men-In-Lycra) :grin:  You might google it for a laugh. It's what the boy-bikers become after marriage and kids.. If they've not killed themselves first.. :wink:

(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-PSm2nQZ/0/981e983b/O/i-PSm2nQZ.jpg)
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Jacqueline on January 23, 2022, 11:33:14 PM
Thanks Zoony, had a good laugh at some of these chaps, some so fat I don't know how they manage to ride a bike at all.

Oy, love your picture just about sums them up.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Sheila on January 24, 2022, 06:31:53 AM
I'd not heard of MAMILs before but I know one and often wonder why his wife doesn't suggest that he ditches his Lycra tights.  He's lovely but I shudder when I see them.

Good cartoon Oy.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Scrumpy on January 24, 2022, 08:29:16 AM

Sheila.. I wouldn't tell him.. That is a good way to get him back for something..  :grin:
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: klondike on January 24, 2022, 09:19:30 AM
When I bought my bike I neglected to get the lycra kit. Now should I get some  :hmm:
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Jacqueline on January 24, 2022, 11:21:53 AM
Quote from: klondike on January 24, 2022, 09:19:30 AM
When I bought my bike I neglected to get the lycra kit. Now should I get some  :hmm:

Please. please no :nooo:
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: klondike on January 24, 2022, 11:34:47 AM
How stretchy is it?
Asking for a friend.  :grin:
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Alex on January 24, 2022, 02:28:59 PM
If you do klondike, be sure to put a photo up on here  :grin: :grin: :grin:
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: klondike on January 24, 2022, 02:38:56 PM
Now that just ain't gonna be happening. Not the Spandex and certainly no photos. I wouldn't want to be over exciting you ladies  :grin:
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: hugh on January 24, 2022, 02:41:09 PM
Can you imagine a motorist being behind a cyclist for miles, then being over taken again at traffic lights and road junctions. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Jacqueline on January 24, 2022, 05:52:11 PM
Quote from: hugh on January 24, 2022, 02:41:09 PM
Can you imagine a motorist being behind a cyclist for miles, then being over taken again at traffic lights and road junctions. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

Actually this has happened on many an occasion.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: klondike on January 24, 2022, 06:19:19 PM
Yep. Usually them in Lycra wobbing all over the road as they power the pedals.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Michael Rolls on January 31, 2022, 10:06:46 AM
just looked on Amazon intending to order the book - and it isn't released until 16th of April! How are we supposed to be following it?
Mike
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: klondike on January 31, 2022, 11:03:36 AM
Is it online? You could check it on your phone as you drive along....
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Michael Rolls on January 31, 2022, 11:44:47 AM
What a good idea!
Mike  [2090]
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Raven on February 02, 2022, 09:10:54 AM
Quote from: klondike on January 31, 2022, 11:03:36 AM
Is it online? You could check it on your phone as you drive along....

No problem. Love it. :yahoo:
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Michael Rolls on February 03, 2022, 03:15:45 AM
Letter in yesterday's paper complaining that the writer had been in a long queue of vehicles held up by two cyclists riding down the middle of the lane on the A6 - single carriageway and busy
Mike
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Jacqueline on February 03, 2022, 09:54:57 AM
Quote from: Michael Rolls on February 03, 2022, 03:15:45 AM
Letter in yesterday's paper complaining that the writer had been in a long queue of vehicles held up by two cyclists riding down the middle of the lane on the A6 - single carriageway and busy
Mike


As I said in a previous post, that extra fuel used chugging along and we are supposed to be saving the planet, what a joke.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Michael Rolls on February 03, 2022, 10:44:38 AM
except it's not funny
Mike
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: hugh on February 03, 2022, 02:05:38 PM
Nice to see all cyclist I have seen in our area, are staying close to the side of the road. I always give them plenty of clearance when passing them. 
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Michael Rolls on February 03, 2022, 02:07:32 PM
me too - as a cyclist many years ago - the feeling of vulnerability in heavy traffic - I wouldn't want to engender road rage
Mike
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Alex on February 03, 2022, 07:16:59 PM
Today coming back from Cheshire Oaks, two cyclists were riding in the middle of the road, causing a bit of a tailback - deliberate action I wonder, just 'cos they can  ?
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: zoony on February 03, 2022, 07:35:16 PM
I think it's very dangerous. There are some 'motorists' with little patience and hair-trigger tempers. Someone's going to get killed.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Michael Rolls on February 03, 2022, 09:50:26 PM
wouldn't be at all surprised - who on earth comes up with these stupid ideas?
Mike
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: zoony on February 03, 2022, 09:55:49 PM
The same ones as thought that closing the motorway emergency facility was a good way of moving more traffic faster.
Title: Re: The Highway Code
Post by: Michael Rolls on February 03, 2022, 09:57:55 PM
I wonder if you have to demonstrate a degree in stupidity to bee allowed to come up with government 'good ideas'
Mike