NC_Yank
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Nothing new here........
The 200 mph was bs......maybe kph...
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The 200 mph was bs......maybe kph...
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It doesn't matter whether you agree or not. Please check the traffic laws in your jurisdiction. Bicycles do have as much right to use the road as you and I do -- again, excepting freeways which are marked "motor vehicles only".I don't agree with that statement. I pay use taxes as part of my registration and the bicyclist does not - depending on where you are, the horse drawn carriage might, or might not.
No, they do not. People driving on public highways should expect stationary obstacles at any time. Rockslides, cars which were already involved in an accident, a cow standing in the road. There's no excuse to hit any of these things. If you do, you're going too fast for conditions.People driving on public highways have a right to expect traffic in their lane to be moving at a reasonable rate
Only if the motorist is driving / riding to fast for conditions. A reasonable and prudent speed is one that allows you to avoid hitting obstacles and is determined (among other things) by sightlines.cyclists often are barely in motion and in an environment where there is no shoulder, that makes them fodder for an accident.
Again, only if the driver's speed is too fast for conditions. If his speed is reasonable and prudent, he will be able to slow and follow the cyclist until it is safe to overtake.In this case it is on a very winding road and on right hand turns (assuming she was riding on the right) she'd be invisible to overtaking traffic and would be fully in it's lane.
Unfortunately, a driver's recourse would only be to swerve OUT of his lane to avoid a collision with her, significantly increasing the odds of running into oncoming traffic.
Won't -- and IMO shouldn't -- happen.Ban the cyclist.
Walking is not the same as cycling. The laws in most jurisdictions are clear, they require a bicycle to ride with traffic, not against it. Furthermore cycling against traffic is extremely dangerous at intersections and driveways because drivers turning right are not expecting or looking for a vehicle to be coming in the wrong direction. And yes, a bicycle is a vehicle.I remember being taught that I should walk facing traffic - cyclists don't, all we see is their fannies sticking up as they work to get up to 15 mph.
Agreed, but I'll bet you $1000 that it wasn't the bicyclist who was in the wrong lane.The cyclist wasn't clear on which of the vehicles was in the wrong lane
Sshe has as much right to risk her life and limb pursuing her two-wheeled sport on a road full of cages as you and I do pursuing ours.and I'm in no way defending the biker, but she was extremely lucky to have been hit by a biker and not by a car or 18 wheeler, 'cause she'd have fared a lot worse than to have the frame on her bike and her arm broken.
Have you got your head stuck up in the thin air? How did you figured that the bicyclist has no right to be there? I guess that is what driver will say after hitting the motorcyclist?- The bicyclist, who really had no right to be pedaling on a public highway with no shoulders in the first place.
Agree 100 percent with the sentiment. I mentioned graduated licensing and other factors to control the problem as much as it can be.
But the story was extremely sensationalised. I had an issue with the cyclist in particular - because if thatès the way she rides and if thatès the way she dresses, then I certainly cannot vouch for the fact that the motorcyclist was at fault.
He may have been at fault, but she was just as likely (if not moreso) to have been run up the rear.
I said that on another forum and got totally blasted.
Don't forget to check out Part 2
The sad truth of it all is that for the most part, they are correct.
AMEN to this. Track is the only viable and safe environment out there. AND, it is cheaper then a ticketMust be different rules for bicycles north of the border; Here, they do have just as much "use" rights as we do(except for expressways), as the SUV does, as the 15mph RV does, as the repli-racer who is counter wieghting through the corners, etc, etc. Public roads are what they are, each user chooses to accept the risk of being there.
Here's an idea; Want to go fast with no on-coming traffic? Take it to the track
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In a blind right-hand turn, with no traffic immediately behind her, she's actually safer in the middle of the lane than on the right-hand edge because this gives traffic coming up behind a longer sight-line to see her -- and her a longer sight line to see that traffic in her mirror.Well, the shots of the cyclist clearly show her occupying the entire lane - and indeed, coming around a right hand turn.
First we don't know what she was wearing the day of the accident because that footage certainly wasn't filmed the day of the crash.she constituted a hazard, an invisible (wearing a black vest)
I see no evidence that there's minimum speed posted on those roads.slow moving vehicle
Nope. I can't find the actual Quebec statutes on line, but this is from an official government site:Must be different rules for bicycles north of the border
+1Here, they do have just as much "use" rights as we do(except for expressways), as the SUV does, as the 15mph RV does, as the repli-racer who is counter wieghting through the corners, etc, etc. Public roads are what they are, each user chooses to accept the risk of being there.
Here's an idea; Want to go fast with no on-coming traffic? Take it to the track
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