Wrong Side Of The Road

"WiNK" wrote

What exactly is "the wrong side of the road?" Do you remember (and
maybe I'm remembering incorrectly) being taught as kids (way back--not
in the 80s, you punks) to bicycle so that cars are facing you? I
could swear this was the original plan..... Now the rule is that
cyclists follow the same rules as cars.

In most states in which I've bothered to check the laws, bicycles = cars
insofar as rules of the road are concerned. They shouldn't be up on the
sidewalk and they shouldn't be riding facing oncoming traffic.

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"I wish people who had trouble communicating would just shut up."
-- Tom Lehrer

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I know it's that way *now*....I am talking about in the early 70s. I could
have sworn when I went to a bicycle safety course and earned my big,
fluorescent orange flag for my bike, that it wasn't that way.

I was taught that way in NY. The "logic" was that you could
see a swerving car in time to maybe get out of the way. I
remember thinking that maybe you'd just have one awful moment
of watching your own --


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--Tedward

Ow!

"James Schrumpf" wrote in message
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How do you prefer your martini, Mr. "WiNK" ? Shaken,
or stirred?


"winnard" wrote in message
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If you bicycle on the wrong side of the road you deserve to become
weenie meat.




winnard



What exactly is "the wrong side of the road?" Do you remember (and
maybe I'm remembering incorrectly) being taught as kids (way back--not
in the 80s, you punks) to bicycle so that cars are facing you? I
could swear this was the original plan..... Now the rule is that
cyclists follow the same rules as cars.

BTW, I saw two kids doing exactly that just two days ago...... riding
into oncoming traffic, which is especially dangerous when they are
crossing one of those right hand turn "merge type lanes." I wanted to
tag one, but talked myself out of it.

Peach




I don't know where you learned to bicycle, but back in '64 or so when I
was 8 and getting my "rules of the road" from the local police at a
bicycle clinic they held in my home town, we were told from the get-go
that you had to obey the same traffic rules as cars: drive on the right,
stop for signs and lights, and give turn signals.

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The Po-dunk town of Windsor, naturallly.

Peach

Winnard wrote:

If you bicycle on the wrong side of the road
you deserve to become weenie meat.

How would a clueless cross-posting ****** like Winnard know what anybody
deserves?

--
"Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much
to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes,
it has not died out." -- The Daily Telegraph (1877)

"winnard" writes:

If you bicycle on the wrong side of the road you
deserve to become weenie meat.

This is true, and indeed has been predicted by
Nostradahmus, especially when the weenie is riding
on the sidewalk. In fact, I almost killed one the
other day. I wanted to pull out of a parking lot
onto the street; first I looked right, then I looked
left, then I started to enter the street to turn
right and the weenie whips right in front of me from the
right, going like a bat out of hell the wrong way on
the sidewalk. Scared him ****less as I braked just in
time.

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{allegra,decvax,ihnp4,oddjob}--^
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WiNK wrote:
"winnard" wrote in message
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If you bicycle on the wrong side of the road you deserve to become weenie
meat.

Assuming "wrong side" means the left (in America):

What about a left-turn situation across five-six lanes of heavy, 40-mph
traffic, wide shoulder on your side, narrow on the other?

(Okay, in such a situation I usually take a right, followed by a u-turn
ASAP. But safety rules never cover all situations.)

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Conservative dictionary:
Judicial Activist: n. A judge who tends to rule against your wishes.

"Raptor" wrote in message
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Assuming "wrong side" means the left (in America):

What about a left-turn situation across five-six lanes of heavy, 40-mph
traffic, wide shoulder on your side, narrow on the other?

(Okay, in such a situation I usually take a right, followed by a u-turn
ASAP. But safety rules never cover all situations.)


You make it sound as though you the hypothetical cyclist is attempting to
turn left from the right-most lane across 4-6 lanes of traffic. This isn't
recommended. The goal is to safely merge into traffic, observing traffic and
entering lanes as it is safe to do so. This works in about 95% of the
traffic situations I've encountered riding expressways in Silicon Valley
(and elsewhere).

However, this is one of those situations where, if it is safe to do so, you
merge into the left turn lane. If it isn't, you turn right at the
intersection, make a U, and proceed in your chosen direction. I've done both
with equal success, but prefer to make the left turn since you only cross
2-3 lanes to reach the left turn lane, not all six.

Rick

WiNK was cut from the Baylor football team for saying...
"winnard" wrote in message

If you bicycle on the wrong side of the road you deserve to become weenie
meat.

What exactly is "the wrong side of the road?" Do you remember (and maybe
I'm remembering incorrectly) being taught as kids (way back--not in the 80s,
you punks) to bicycle so that cars are facing you? I could swear this was
the original plan..... Now the rule is that cyclists follow the same rules
as cars.

I was taught to WALK facing traffic when there is no sidewalk or good
place off-road to walk, but not bicycle facing traffic. That's so you
can see what's going to hit you, I guess.

Maybe that's what you're thinking of?



Trent
Chairborne "Nine of Diamonds" Ranger

....To be a great NCO, you need three bones: a backbone, a wishbone and a funny bone.

Raptor wrote:


What about a left-turn situation across five-six lanes of heavy, 40-mph
traffic, wide shoulder on your side, narrow on the other?

(Okay, in such a situation I usually take a right, followed by a u-turn
ASAP. But safety rules never cover all situations.)

If you're skilled enough, and choose to do so, you merge left one lane
at at time until you're in the left-turn-only-lane.

If that's too difficult or scary, you stop on the right (if it's an
intersection, at the corner across to your right) then wait for a green
light or clear space.

Certainly, on a six-lane heavy traffic road, you don't ride facing
traffic! Not if you have any knowledge and survival instinct!

- Frank Krygowski

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Raptor wrote:

Certainly, on a six-lane heavy traffic road, you don't ride facing
traffic! Not if you have any knowledge and survival instinct!


You should have a car if you want to ride in a six lane road. There's no
place for a bicyckle on a six lane road.


winnard

wrote:

Raptor wrote:


What about a left-turn situation across five-six lanes of heavy, 40-mph
traffic, wide shoulder on your side, narrow on the other?

(Okay, in such a situation I usually take a right, followed by a u-turn
ASAP. But safety rules never cover all situations.)


If you're skilled enough, and choose to do so, you merge left one lane
at at time until you're in the left-turn-only-lane.

If that's too difficult or scary, you stop on the right (if it's an
intersection, at the corner across to your right) then wait for a green
light or clear space.

Certainly, on a six-lane heavy traffic road, you don't ride facing
traffic! Not if you have any knowledge and survival instinct!

- Frank Krygowski

I was talking about turning left ONTO the heavy, fast road, from a side
street or driveway.

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Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall

Conservative dictionary:
Judicial Activist: n. A judge who tends to rule against your wishes.