don't know if you guys have heard about the cycle path crash in Perth

don't know if you guys have heard about the cycle path crash in Perth
that has left Three cyclist DOA and one quadrapalegic. Today the
police were calling for witnesses to the accident on the ABC radio.
The accident happened when two training squads apparently ran into each

other on the cyclepaths around the Swan River.

Ride carefully out there!

Troll. Treat with ignore.


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cfsmtb

cfsmtb Wrote:
Troll. Treat with ignore.

I want to become a mod on cyclingforums... can the admin just enable me
the 'delete thread' button?


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gplama

In aus.bicycle on 21 Sep 2006 17:30:13 -0700
Lisa wrote:
don't know if you guys have heard about the cycle path crash in Perth
that has left Three cyclist DOA and one quadrapalegic. Today the
police were calling for witnesses to the accident on the ABC radio.
The accident happened when two training squads apparently ran into each

other on the cyclepaths around the Swan River.

Head down, bum up, and not expecting trouble?

Sounds nasty. I can see that could lead to a horrible mess.

What would the etiquette be? You are going at a fair old clip on a
cyclepath, which no doubt curves as they do, and you have a few
seconds to realise there's another lot coming at a high closing speed.

What do you do?


Zebee

Zebee Johnstone wrote:
In aus.bicycle on 21 Sep 2006 17:30:13 -0700
Lisa wrote:
don't know if you guys have heard about the cycle path crash in Perth
that has left Three cyclist DOA and one quadrapalegic. Today the
police were calling for witnesses to the accident on the ABC radio.
The accident happened when two training squads apparently ran into each

other on the cyclepaths around the Swan River.

Head down, bum up, and not expecting trouble?

Sounds nasty. I can see that could lead to a horrible mess.

What would the etiquette be? You are going at a fair old clip on a
cyclepath, which no doubt curves as they do, and you have a few
seconds to realise there's another lot coming at a high closing speed.

What do you do?


Zebee

Head into the scenery.

Ben

In aus.bicycle on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:15:03 GMT
Ben Thomas wrote:
Zebee Johnstone wrote:

Sounds nasty. I can see that could lead to a horrible mess.

What would the etiquette be? You are going at a fair old clip on a
cyclepath, which no doubt curves as they do, and you have a few
seconds to realise there's another lot coming at a high closing speed.

Head into the scenery.


I assume everyone goes left

Plus yell loudly something slightly more informative than "oh ****" so
that the bods at the back realise they too need to head leftwards.

And as long as you *can* head into the scenery. (Not that I think any
training bunch would be using the narrow bumpy bit of the Cooks River
path near Canterbury Racetrack where you get a choice of getting wet
or exhibiting your vertical climbing skills.)

Zebee

Zebee Johnstone Wrote:

What do you do?

Zebee, sorry, this is a troll post. Please install your additional BS
filter.


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cfsmtb

In aus.bicycle on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:23:10 +1000
cfsmtb wrote:

Zebee Johnstone Wrote:

What do you do?

Zebee, sorry, this is a troll post. Please install your additional BS
filter.

Yeah, but being a troll doesn't stop it being an interesting question!

THe troll hopes to get a slew of "racing on cycle paths is bad" posts,
I want to see "what happens in situations where there's a nasty
obstacle and everyone has to react in a sane way".

Zebee

Zebee Johnstone wrote:


What would the etiquette be? You are going at a fair old clip on a
cyclepath, which no doubt curves as they do, and you have a few
seconds to realise there's another lot coming at a high closing speed.

The etiquette is not to ride at speed on a cycle path. If it is true[1],
then they got what they deserved.


[1] In war, there are always more injured than killed. Seems the same
applies to true life accident reports involving many people.

Zebee Johnstone wrote:
In aus.bicycle on 21 Sep 2006 17:30:13 -0700
Lisa wrote:
don't know if you guys have heard about the cycle path crash in Perth
that has left Three cyclist DOA and one quadrapalegic. Today the
police were calling for witnesses to the accident on the ABC radio.
The accident happened when two training squads apparently ran into each

other on the cyclepaths around the Swan River.

Head down, bum up, and not expecting trouble?

Sounds nasty. I can see that could lead to a horrible mess.

What would the etiquette be? You are going at a fair old clip on a
cyclepath, which no doubt curves as they do, and you have a few
seconds to realise there's another lot coming at a high closing speed.

What do you do?



Ohhhhh hard one.

I know I know I know......

Brake?

Am I right?

Its a troll Zebee

Dave