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NSW bike laws....
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:30:20 +1100, Noddy
wrote: On 02/03/16 8:39 AM, Je?us wrote: You'd think that my living out in the bush means I'm isolated from that sort of **** - NOPE. I encounter the lycra biker nazis nearly every time I travel to Launceston. They come quite a way out from there, onto fairly narrow, steep and windy roads. They frequently sit two abreast in the middle of the lane, and you can suddenly come up behind them on a tight bend going uphill, meaning they're only crawling along while you're doing 100KM/H. And they won't move over either, I've seen logging trucks stuck behind them (who haven't a hope of passing them) and they still won't move. Any sign of indignation from you is invariably answered by the finger. Some of them must have a death-wish. Same here. I get the week-end flouro types "racing" each other up and down the Avenue of Honour here leading into town, and the attitude is astonishing. It's like they have to defiantly show they have a "right: to be there by deliberately holding up every other vehicle on the road which does *nothing* but cause agro against them. Yep, most of them seem to *want* to create agro. I've had them hear me coming and them swarm all over *both* lanes to block me. That was between Kin Kin and Pomona in QLD. Smart. Again, yep. Sooner or later we'll start to see a few people target these idiots intentionally. They are the reason I put cameras in all my vehicles, after a close shave some years ago where I nearly had to choose between hitting the bike or the oncoming car (bike was in the middle of my lane). I should really collect the videos and make a compilation of these lycra pricks. I think "Dashcams" along with reversing cameras should be standard in every vehicle and I have them in mine as well. Personally I think anyone who rides a bike without regard to how much of an obstruction to other traffic they're making of themselves is a ****ing lunatic, as being run over and killed is a *massive* price to pay for exercising your "right to be there". Indeed. I don't understand it. Maybe some of them just like the idea of being an 'oppressed minority' or something, and are standing up for their 'rights'. I think cyclists should also make themselves aware of the rules, and in particular, Rule 125, which states: 125. Unreasonably obstructing drivers or pedestrians (1) A driver must not unreasonably obstruct the path of another driver or a pedestrian. Penalty: 2 penalty units. Note Driver includes a person in control of a vehicle—see the definition of drive in the dictionary. (2) For this rule, a driver does not unreasonably obstruct the path of another driver or a pedestrian only because— (a) the driver is stopped in traffic; or (b) the driver is driving more slowly than other vehicles (unless the driver is driving abnormally slowly in the circumstances). Example of a driver driving abnormally slowly A driver driving at a speed of 20 kilometres per hour on a length of road to which a speed-limit of 80 kilometres per hour applies when there is no reason for the driver to drive at that speed on the length of road. The short answer for cyclists is that you have as much right to use the roads as anyone else. However, you do *not* have the right to slow everyone else down to your pace and become a mobile road block just because you feel that you *want* to. Exactly. The trouble is, even with dash cams you have no way to identify and then report them to the cops, unless you're lucky enough to have a cop nearby or you stop and get involved in a serious altercation or whatever where somebody is injured. For that reason I'm all for bike to have plates. |
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