N111BJG wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:49 am
nsm3 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 3:06 pm
As a motorcyclist, I just assume everyone else on the road is an incompetent dickhead and is out to kill me.
Agreed, I also ride a bike, if I am in any doubt about what anyone else is going to do I slow right down, maybe stop completely. If I was wrong to be worried I’ve lost a fraction of a second, if I was right I’ve avoided a trip to the hospital (or car to body shop).
There’s no consolation in saying the other driver was in the wrong from the grave. But there is some reward in being able to shout Dickhead in your helmet to nobody else as you ride away intact.
May I say, DEAD right with that one. How many tomb stones might have the inscription, It was that B.st..ds fault.
Having probably had too many driving courses, either I was that bad or whatever. Nearly 30 weeks in total, and being a cyclist, where you seem to think that you're car drivers fodder. The awareness is extreme.
Now I never get side by side of any vehicle going straight on at a roundabout, as others have said. Either way in front if there is a gap, or hold back at the rear of its o/s/r corner as its exiting, having time to stop if dickhead turns right.
A few years ago in Mallorca, while out cycling. Entered a roundabout, while on the outside lane adjacent to the kerb, passing the first exit, a car took that exit colliding with me. Bang, ended up with a fractured pelvis, 16 weeks using a wheelchair and crutches. Some of which while on holiday. The Guardia Civil, came to my hotel, after being discharged from hospital, and blamed me, stating it was my fault. They said it's Spanish law, that cyclists have to stop at every junction on a roundabout and check and give way to traffic. Load of crap, I found out. The claims company of my travel insurance which were out a good chunk of money, and solicitors for my cycling club. Said I had no chance with a claim, as the Spanish courts will always take not of the police, whether they are right or wrong. And secondly, the Spanish hate the British, when it comes to court decisions. So luckily, I recovered 100%.