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Got hit by a taxi today
"Baka" == Baka Dasai writes:
Baka No major damage to the bike, but I've tweaked my back pretty Baka severely, enough so that I can't sit down for any length of Baka time. Dang, sorry to hear that. Hope the back doesn't take too long to heal up. Baka Solution? I don't think I could have done anything Baka differently. I think there needs to be many more bikes on the Baka road so that car-drivers start to expect them and take them Baka into account. On the roads, yes. Not on bike paths, heck I'm ambivalent about bike lanes. A wide left shoulder seems to be the best solution I've ridden on (Nepean Highway springs to mind, safest road I ride). It's hard for me to comment on what you could have done differently, not knowing the area. Given the stopping power of a road bike (I'm assuming it's a road bike?) is travelling at 40km/h in that environment a good idea? Personally on approaching uncontrolled intersections where I see a vehicle I moderate my speed so that I can pull clear or brake if the person does something stupid. Basically at all times I do my best to maintain a safety cocoon around me. Escape lines, can I brake in time if an identified hazard moves in to my path? That sort of thing. It's something I read in a British book called Road Craft (might be one word, read it when I was in my teens.) Or it might have been Advanced Driving of something similar. quick google Hmm, not what I was looking for but looks like a good read anyway. Got a section on pace line riding. http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/docs/pamanual.pdf Well can't find anything online but hopefully you get the idea. It's how I ride, in nearly three years on Melbourne roads I've had one bump and that was as a result of a lapse in my safety cocoon. I knew that when the van that had completely overcooked the corner in the bike lane recovered I'd have the bike lane. Unfortunately for me there was a parked car in the bike lane and I didn't have time to stop. The only other collision I've had was with my geography teacher when I was 14. Basically I hooned off the roundabout thinking I was Nigel Mansell and she turned right in to my path. Me small, squashy and more fragile than I'd care to admit. There's a lot of hard edges on them roads. -- Cheers | ~~ __@ Euan | ~~ _-\, Melbourne, Australia | ~ (*)/ (*) |
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