Bicycle, crash hat and accident

I'm not talking about emergencies, I'm talking about:

and other similar everyday instances. If you manage to anticipate and avoid these, then so much the better.

So you're kids don't ride bikes?

So your children don't play on bikes?

He is not kids.

no, i am not kids..

What children?

All children are brain dead anyway. The point of family life is to attempt to give them some brains before they are adults.

Mmmm, I prefer Kingsley Amis: he said (in one of his novels, I forget which) that all children are permanently drunk and that all women are semi-drunk.

I liken young children's minds to heavily fragmented hard drives.

Indeed, children play on bikes. They soon realise they are not transport, but toys.

I guess "you're" a cyclist?

Very safe, traffic slows for the lights.

....because in 'Dave World' cyclists are well known as contributing nothing in taxes to HM Treasury, exempt as they are to income tax, National Insurance, VAT, stamp duty, capital gains tax and of course as cyclists they don't ever own a car they contribute nothing in fuel duty nor do they require car tax. As they are all uninsured for everything including their home and contents they don't pay any insurance premium tax either, nor do they pay council tax or make any meaningful contribution to society. They also evade death duties by moving all their assets offshore into an untouchable trust.

Most of the rest of planet earth realise that cyclists contribute billions in tax just like almost everyone else and are fully entitled to be able to travel in a safe manner by the provision of suitable facilities and legislation.

P.S. I'd execute red light runners and those that ride through pedestrian crossings on the spot :)

The point is of course that as cyclists they pay no cycling related tax, no t as ordinary citizens where of course they pay taxes like anyone else. Whe reas motorists pay taxes through the nose for all motoring AND they still p ay tax as an ordinary tax payer.

How did you miss this simple point ?

The day the government can identify individual cyclists via a licensing sch eme is the day they'l start larding taxes on them

He's a cyclist? Who doesn't own a car?

Slightly different direction.... motorists who seem unable to overtake cyclists on *A* standard roads if there is an approaching vehicle in sight!

A motorist attempted to overtake me on a B road when someone was coming the other way, I was the one who ended up in hospital with a smashed right arm. Some A roads are quite narrow, too, and there is not room to overtake a cyclist safely when there is a car coming the other way. I was taught to leave cyclist "falling space" when overtaking.

In message , charles writes

Sorry to hear that.

Of course. The one I have in mind was re-constructed and opened in 1977. There seem to be two issues... an inability to judge time available/oncoming vehicle speed such that they slow to cycle speed and an unwillingness to trespass on the other lane.

I agree whooshing by under the handlebar at 60mph is inconsiderate but would only allow *falling space* for someone cycling very slowly or wobbling about.

Does this mean that you've awarded yourself an honorary Darwin Award? ;-)

Tim

I cycle predominantly on minor roads but I have a mirror fitted to the end of the handle bars, a better safety feature than a helmet imho. When I see a car approaching towards me and another coming from behind I stay well out into the road to make it clear to the overtaking car that he hasn't got th e room. NO sensible motorist will rear end a cyclist but a careless one wil l easily knock you off your bike in an overtaking manoeuvre.