Ineffective Cycling

Good title for a book. Lots of potential

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uick-turn.html
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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 7:12:13 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
Good title for a book. Lots of potential

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uick-turn.html
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He should have been in position three, but he does get points for the fluorescent vest. Had he attended my advanced skills course, he would have known not to ride straight into a turning fire engine. That is in class number six, if you purchase the deluxe package. Otherwise, it is covered more generally in class number three, chapter four: "Don't Ride Your Bike into Things." See Bicycle Illuminati Rule 7.2(1)(a)(iii): "when riding your bike, do not ride straight into walls, large trucks or other massive objects." Here's the chapter materials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFC6kfc15s

-- Jay Beattie.

On 5/7/2019 11:27 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 7:12:13 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
Good title for a book. Lots of potential

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uick-turn.html
--

He should have been in position three, but he does get points for the fluorescent vest. Had he attended my advanced skills course, he would have known not to ride straight into a turning fire engine. That is in class number six, if you purchase the deluxe package. Otherwise, it is covered more generally in class number three, chapter four: "Don't Ride Your Bike into Things." See Bicycle Illuminati Rule 7.2(1)(a)(iii): "when riding your bike, do not ride straight into walls, large trucks or other massive objects." Here's the chapter materials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFC6kfc15s

FWIW, that situation is dealt with in detail in the cycling classes I
have taken. How to prevent it from setting up in the first place, how to
watch for it developing, exactly what evasive action to take if it can't
be avoided, etc. Oh, and the classes had actual drills on the relevant
last-second evasive skills, practiced over and over.

No, people do _not_ know those things automatically. Even riders with
years of experience.

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- Frank Krygowski

On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 11:05:36 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 5/7/2019 11:27 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 7:12:13 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
Good title for a book. Lots of potential

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uick-turn.html
--

He should have been in position three, but he does get points for the fluorescent vest. Had he attended my advanced skills course, he would have known not to ride straight into a turning fire engine. That is in class number six, if you purchase the deluxe package. Otherwise, it is covered more generally in class number three, chapter four: "Don't Ride Your Bike into Things." See Bicycle Illuminati Rule 7.2(1)(a)(iii): "when riding your bike, do not ride straight into walls, large trucks or other massive objects." Here's the chapter materials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFC6kfc15s

FWIW, that situation is dealt with in detail in the cycling classes I
have taken. How to prevent it from setting up in the first place, how to
watch for it developing, exactly what evasive action to take if it can't
be avoided, etc. Oh, and the classes had actual drills on the relevant
last-second evasive skills, practiced over and over.

No, people do _not_ know those things automatically. Even riders with
years of experience.

Anyone with even a whiff of intelligence would know not to accelerate into the side of a turning fire truck with its siren blaring and turn signal activated. Look at the complete video from the beginning. The only mystery is "what was he thinking."

If you are teaching or taking cycling classes where the instructor is actually saying, "hey, if a fire truck turns in front of you, don't accelerate into it," then the instructor should also be teaching life skills like how to dress, eat and dial 911.

-- Jay Beattie.

On 5/7/2019 5:48 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 11:05:36 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 5/7/2019 11:27 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 7:12:13 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
Good title for a book. Lots of potential

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uick-turn.html
--

He should have been in position three, but he does get points for the fluorescent vest. Had he attended my advanced skills course, he would have known not to ride straight into a turning fire engine. That is in class number six, if you purchase the deluxe package. Otherwise, it is covered more generally in class number three, chapter four: "Don't Ride Your Bike into Things." See Bicycle Illuminati Rule 7.2(1)(a)(iii): "when riding your bike, do not ride straight into walls, large trucks or other massive objects." Here's the chapter materials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFC6kfc15s

FWIW, that situation is dealt with in detail in the cycling classes I
have taken. How to prevent it from setting up in the first place, how to
watch for it developing, exactly what evasive action to take if it can't
be avoided, etc. Oh, and the classes had actual drills on the relevant
last-second evasive skills, practiced over and over.

No, people do _not_ know those things automatically. Even riders with
years of experience.

Anyone with even a whiff of intelligence would know not to accelerate into the side of a turning fire truck with its siren blaring and turn signal activated. Look at the complete video from the beginning. The only mystery is "what was he thinking."

If you are teaching or taking cycling classes where the instructor is actually saying, "hey, if a fire truck turns in front of you, don't accelerate into it," then the instructor should also be teaching life skills like how to dress, eat and dial 911.

You really should stop guessing about what instructors in these classes
are saying. You keep guessing wrong.


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- Frank Krygowski

On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 11:48:08 PM UTC+2, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 11:05:36 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 5/7/2019 11:27 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 7:12:13 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
Good title for a book. Lots of potential

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uick-turn.html
--

He should have been in position three, but he does get points for the fluorescent vest. Had he attended my advanced skills course, he would have known not to ride straight into a turning fire engine. That is in class number six, if you purchase the deluxe package. Otherwise, it is covered more generally in class number three, chapter four: "Don't Ride Your Bike into Things." See Bicycle Illuminati Rule 7.2(1)(a)(iii): "when riding your bike, do not ride straight into walls, large trucks or other massive objects." Here's the chapter materials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFC6kfc15s

FWIW, that situation is dealt with in detail in the cycling classes I
have taken. How to prevent it from setting up in the first place, how to
watch for it developing, exactly what evasive action to take if it can't
be avoided, etc. Oh, and the classes had actual drills on the relevant
last-second evasive skills, practiced over and over.

No, people do _not_ know those things automatically. Even riders with
years of experience.

Anyone with even a whiff of intelligence would know not to accelerate into the side of a turning fire truck with its siren blaring and turn signal activated. Look at the complete video from the beginning. The only mystery is "what was he thinking."

If you are teaching or taking cycling classes where the instructor is actually saying, "hey, if a fire truck turns in front of you, don't accelerate into it," then the instructor should also be teaching life skills like how to dress, eat and dial 911.

-- Jay Beattie.

+1 what an idiot. He was not even looking straight forward when he started to accelerate.

Lou

On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 10:48:08 PM UTC+1, jbeattie wrote:

Look at the complete video from the beginning. The only mystery is "what was he thinking."

Or, even more pointedly, "What was he thinking with?"

Ande Jute
A little, a very little thought will suffice -- John Maynard Keynes

On 5/8/2019 6:30 PM, Andre Jute wrote:
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 10:48:08 PM UTC+1, jbeattie wrote:

Look at the complete video from the beginning. The only mystery is "what was he thinking."

Or, even more pointedly, "What was he thinking with?"

Ande Jute
A little, a very little thought will suffice -- John Maynard Keynes



Don't discount telephone text messages - a deadly force:

https://nypost.com/video/corn-pops-a...es-into-truck/

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Tue, 7 May 2019 14:05:33 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 5/7/2019 11:27 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 7:12:13 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
Good title for a book. Lots of potential

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uick-turn.html
--

He should have been in position three, but he does get points for the fluorescent vest. Had he attended my advanced skills course, he would have known not to ride straight into a turning fire engine. That is in class number six, if you purchase the deluxe package. Otherwise, it is covered more generally in class number three, chapter four: "Don't Ride Your Bike into Things." See Bicycle Illuminati Rule 7.2(1)(a)(iii): "when riding your bike, do not ride straight into walls, large trucks or other massive objects." Here's the chapter materials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFC6kfc15s

FWIW, that situation is dealt with in detail in the cycling classes I
have taken. How to prevent it from setting up in the first place, how to
watch for it developing, exactly what evasive action to take if it can't
be avoided, etc. Oh, and the classes had actual drills on the relevant
last-second evasive skills, practiced over and over.

No, people do _not_ know those things automatically. Even riders with
years of experience.

Goodness! Those bicyclists, back there, must be sort of stupid. After
all it was a great big motor bus and the guy rode right into it. the
cyclists here aren't that stupid (and they can't even speak English).
As for "evasive action", well I suppose that "just stop and let the
bloody great thing go by" is evasive action.

But the assertion that one needs lessons to teach one NOT to crash
into a big bus, or that "people do_not_know these things
automatically" - not to ride into the side of a bus, one assumes,
would seem to equate the intelligence of the average U.S. bicycle
rider with that of a pet rock.
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cheers,

John B.

On 5/7/2019 6:00 PM, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 7 May 2019 14:05:33 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 5/7/2019 11:27 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 7:12:13 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
Good title for a book. Lots of potential

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uick-turn.html
--

He should have been in position three, but he does get points for the fluorescent vest. Had he attended my advanced skills course, he would have known not to ride straight into a turning fire engine. That is in class number six, if you purchase the deluxe package. Otherwise, it is covered more generally in class number three, chapter four: "Don't Ride Your Bike into Things." See Bicycle Illuminati Rule 7.2(1)(a)(iii): "when riding your bike, do not ride straight into walls, large trucks or other massive objects." Here's the chapter materials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFC6kfc15s

FWIW, that situation is dealt with in detail in the cycling classes I
have taken. How to prevent it from setting up in the first place, how to
watch for it developing, exactly what evasive action to take if it can't
be avoided, etc. Oh, and the classes had actual drills on the relevant
last-second evasive skills, practiced over and over.

No, people do _not_ know those things automatically. Even riders with
years of experience.

Goodness! Those bicyclists, back there, must be sort of stupid. After
all it was a great big motor bus and the guy rode right into it. the
cyclists here aren't that stupid (and they can't even speak English).
As for "evasive action", well I suppose that "just stop and let the
bloody great thing go by" is evasive action.

But the assertion that one needs lessons to teach one NOT to crash
into a big bus, or that "people do_not_know these things
automatically" - not to ride into the side of a bus, one assumes,
would seem to equate the intelligence of the average U.S. bicycle
rider with that of a pet rock.

I note that the safe cyclist in that video with his saf-tee
vest and saf-tee helmet is in central London England.

I have done idiot moves on a bicycle, many in fact, but not
that.


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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971