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NSW bike laws....
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 14:11:00 -0800 (PST), Diesel Damo
wrote: On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 8:39:51 AM UTC+11, Jeßus wrote: You'd think that my living out in the bush means I'm isolated from that sort of **** - NOPE. Thank you for posting everything I was about to post If I leave Bathurst from the southern end to head home, I even see a permanent black-on-yellow sign showing a bike. Obviously intending to convey the message "watch for cyclists". We have the same signs on our roads too now which also say to give them 1.5m berth. Which would be fine, except they're almost always more than 1.5 from the LHS edge of the road themselves. You're lucky to find a straight stretch of road longer than 500m here, that means constant bends with little to no visibility beyond them. So when we encounter these pricks, we either take a chance and pass on the wrong side of the road or pull up behind them. This, on a remote rural road busy with logging trucks is just ridiculous. Apparently they love doing rural marathons. So it seems. It also seems they're out for a confrontation with other road users and I won't be at all surprised when somebody finally loses their **** and starts to take some of them out on purpose. 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. Absolutely. Anyone who has seen a logging truck rocking and swaying all over the place as it takes a fast bend would never tangle with one unless you're driving a tank. A fast tank. 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). That's the basis of why I think they should pay equally and be able to be held accountable. It's not about how much a vehicle damages the road, it's about road trauma. A pushy is just as capable of causing a huge pile up as any other vehicle on the road. Exactly right. It's human nature for the first reaction to an emergency situation to be avoiding the first collision. Often after that you've sealed your fate. Yes. That said, if I'm faced with the same situation again I'm not going to risk hitting an innocent oncoming vehicle and also risking serious personal injury to myself. I'll err on the side of risking taking the bike out instead. |
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