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Blame the faulty drivers of dangerous machinery. 4WDs most dangerous on road
"TimC" wrote in message
... On 2005-10-24, Kev (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: Of the last 4 vehicles I have come into contact with, 3 were 4WDs (the other was a stolen vehicle, where the drivers deliberately rammed me, and one of the 4WDs was being controlled by a road rager who fortunately chose to get out of his ego-cage in order to assault me). what is wrong with your riding skills that you keep coming into contact with cars? Reaction times greater than 200msec. Damn it, I'm only human. In the two road rage cases, it was me yelling out "hey!" to cars that tried to merge into the lane that I had already occupied. "hey!" of course being the most to-the-point thing that one can quickly say -- as far more effective than merely ringing my bell. The 4WDer obviously felt like his penis was threatened by this, so got out of his car and started pushing me around.... 50m from a booze bus with flashing lights. Idiot. The other was a bunch of teenagers in a stolen car taking it for a joy ride, so they got their thrills out of being dangerous fools on the road. Hope they've met a tree now. Then the idiot woman the other day obviously though I threatened her tits. In one other case, a 4WDer was pulling out of a carpark, and was too busy concentrating on doing an illegal U-turn to bother looking in my direction. When she hit me, I managed to stay upright and avoided the tram tracks and traffic in the opposite direction, and nearly fell over when I came to clip out, and found I could barely move my leg. She said "oh sorry, I usually am a very good driver -- I look out for cyclists, but just forgot to look this time!". Oh well, at least it wasn't the SMIDSY -- "Sorry Mate, I Didn't See You" -- I have to admit I've never heard someone say "I didn't bother looking for you". And she even took me to the doctor then the police station. You'd prefer FYWYCF (f&ck you, where'd you come from?) And the case 2 weeks ago was an idiot in a 4WD who didn't indicate, barely slowed down, or look when he pulled into a parking spot. I was possible not riding as defensively as I could (I should have taken the middle of the right hand lane in order not to allow vehicles to pass me when there wasn't enough room) -- although the traffic was travelling rather slow at the time, and I thought it was safe. He broke at least 2, possibly three laws (I'm talking to a lawyer tomorrow), and I broke 0 laws. Unfortunately, he has left me a 2 day visit to a hospital, $500 out of pocket, and with a much reduced capacity to eat for the past almost 2 weeks (lay ruin to my plan of doing the 210km around-the-bay, because I couldn't fuel myself). and I didn't even get a single scratch on his fricking precious Urban Asault Vehicle. There is no place for 4WDs in city roads. Obviously no place for accident prone cyclists either. My only near misses riding in Sydney were with cars, taxi's usually, never hit me though. Every single one of mine was a clean, never used in the bush vehicle. 2 of them were sole occupant, and the other had two occupants. The one that got me last time had a taller bonnet than my handlebars, which means he sure as hell isn't going to see a lot of obstacles, and any human he does hit will be hit in the torso, and will not have a chance of going safely over the bonnet. Combine that with the fact that the vehicles are not constructed to the same safety standards as required by law of normal passenger vehicles, and that they are actively aggressive to non 4WD users, and you have a vehicle that is extremely harmful to society. But since it is so loved amongst Toorak style voters, of whom our Johnny Howard love, I doubt they will be taxed comparably to normal vehicles anytime soon. You never consider us non Toorak, real offroaders exist do you, if it's under 2 year old it doesn't exist to you Toorak cyclists. |
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