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Getting training will stop cyclists hitting car doors

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Alycidon

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Aug 27, 2016, 11:08:22 AM8/27/16
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3761261/Bridge-collapses-lorry-motorway-causing-traffic-misery-shocked-motorists.html

Rob Morley

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Aug 27, 2016, 11:31:33 AM8/27/16
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:08:21 -0700 (PDT)
Alycidon <swld...@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3761261/Bridge-collapses-lorry-motorway-causing-traffic-misery-shocked-motorists.html

I'd have thought anyone who is aware of the dooring zone will tend to
avoid it, not much training needed there. But what does a broken
bridge have to do with it?

JNugent

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Aug 27, 2016, 11:35:29 AM8/27/16
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On 27/08/2016 16:08, Alycidon wrote:

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3761261/Bridge-collapses-lorry-motorway-causing-traffic-misery-shocked-motorists.html

Nothing to do with cycling or cyclists.

X-posted to an appropriate NG for informed comment.

JNugent

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Aug 27, 2016, 11:36:13 AM8/27/16
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Good question.

And more likely to get a sensible answer in another NG.

Alycidon

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Aug 27, 2016, 11:47:53 AM8/27/16
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Highly trained HGV driver hit a bridge - a cyclist with no training misses a car door illegally flung open.

Ergo, no specialist cycle training needed. QED.



Bret Cahill

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Aug 28, 2016, 2:37:18 AM8/28/16
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> > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3761261/Bridge-collapses-lorry-motorway-causing-traffic-misery-shocked-motorists.html

> Nothing to do with cycling or cyclists.

Cyclists never get stuck in traffic for hours anyway.


MrCheerful

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Aug 28, 2016, 4:45:05 AM8/28/16
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They would not be allowed past the Police lines, so IF they were on the
road in question they would have been just as stuck as everyone else.
As the road in question is a Motorway, any cyclists would have been
riding there illegally in any case.

Alycidon

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Aug 28, 2016, 5:12:08 AM8/28/16
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They are allowed to play football though on the freeway.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/27/18/37A07BAB00000578-3761261-image-a-59_1472317795056.jpg

Nick

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Aug 28, 2016, 6:54:34 AM8/28/16
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On 28/08/2016 07:37, Bret Cahill wrote:
Lovely cycling around there too. Virtually desert country lanes. Hills
up to about 150m climbs.

Nick

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Aug 28, 2016, 6:56:28 AM8/28/16
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Yebut we know that most people who drive professionally are not the
sharpest tools in the box.

Rob Morley

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Aug 28, 2016, 11:11:37 AM8/28/16
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:47:52 -0700 (PDT)
Alycidon <swld...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 27 August 2016 16:31:33 UTC+1, Rob Morley wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:08:21 -0700 (PDT)
> > Alycidon <swld...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > I'd have thought anyone who is aware of the dooring zone will tend
> > to avoid it, not much training needed there. But what does a broken
> > bridge have to do with it?
>
> Highly trained HGV driver hit a bridge - a cyclist with no training
> misses a car door illegally flung open.
>
> Ergo, no specialist cycle training needed. QED.
>
Ahh, gotcha.
I thought this one would be about a Critical Mass event:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-masked-bikers-intimidate-motorists-8721278
Fortunately the miscreants can be identified from their reg. plates ...
or not.

Peter Parry

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Aug 28, 2016, 11:28:28 AM8/28/16
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 16:10:18 +0100, Rob Morley <nos...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>Ahh, gotcha.
>I thought this one would be about a Critical Mass event:
>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-masked-bikers-intimidate-motorists-8721278


"It is believed that the incident was part of a ‘take back the
streets’ campaign - a push by militant scrambler riders to be allowed
to do whatever they want on the city’s roads."

Sound familiar?

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