Thread: Cyclist aware drivers... are you one?

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

That's how I was taught to ride a bike way back in the time before lycra and bike helmets.
Didn't have many problems with motorists back then. Didn't end up under a bus.

Me too. We had cycle safety classes at primary school and were taught that the first rule of the road is keep to the left.

The other mobile road block I dislike intensely, more so than cyclists, are caravanners who won't or can't drive at traffic speed and steadfastly refuse to pull over and let the accumulated traffic behind them through. If you or your tow vehicle/van combination can not maintain traffic speed then you should not be on the road.

Caravanners pay rego and fuel taxes and also drive faster than 30 kmh or so.
What you will dislike next, old people in mobility scooters?

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

The other mobile road block I dislike intensely, more so than cyclists, are caravanners who won't or can't drive at traffic speed and steadfastly refuse to pull over and let the accumulated traffic behind them through. If you or your tow vehicle/van combination can not maintain traffic speed then you should not be on the road.

That's a whole different topic - over 400 posts here if you want to revive it - Grey Nomads - things I've learnt in the last few days.

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Caravanners pay rego and fuel taxes and also drive faster than 30 kmh or so.
What you will dislike next, old people in mobility scooters?

Chuck, I don't dislike all caravanners just the slow and obstructive ones. The slow ones are OK if they move over or stop and let other users past.

The details are yet to come to light, but this happened 500mts from my place yesterday. I only heard about on the local news. It is an open intersection with good visability in all directions. Very sad indeed.

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One big problem i see up here is roads that have been designated as cycle training routes.I don't know who makes the call on which roads to use but it's not done with much thought.

One of the roads used is the main Townsville port road which is used by B-double trucks moving at 100kph and the cycle lane is fairly skinny.The idea of having big fast moving trucks and small slow moving cyclist in close contact with each other is not real bright.

You can't blame the cyclist for using the road as it is designated as a training route but at the same time it's also a road used by big trucks,i am not a B-double driver but i am guessing that they don't respond very quickly or stop on a dime.

This is a disaster waiting to happen and it is caused by placing trucks and cyclist together,in the paper up here there is regular stories about near misses by cyclist leveled at the truck drivers.At the same time i don't think the cyclist understand that a big truck at speed is very limited in where it can go to avoid them while staying in their lane to avoid on-coming traffic.

Common sense has to prevail before someone gets killed.

Why is everybody in such a rush to get somewhere theae days. Oh, I sound like my old man 30 years ago.

I have just been told cyclists can only ride 2 abreast in WA if it's dual carriageway.
Single c/way, single file.