Roundabout confusion.

jimmypippa

softlad wrote:

willhub wrote:

I presume allot of people who can actually drive cars would get the roundabout wrong in the image too, allot of car drivers don't know it's legal to ride 2 abreast, on Sunday we was on this quiet straight wide road, well busyish, but not unsafe, and this guy came up matching out speed, passenger opening window and was like "FOR GOD SAKE..... RIDE IN SINGLE FILE DAMNIT....", I shouted at him.... "READ THE HIGHWAY CODE"

It is polite - and sensible - to single out when you are on a 'quiet/busyish' road with traffic. The guy was quite right, irrespective of what it says in the highway code.

+1


the highway code

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You should
keep both hands on the handlebars except when signalling or changing gear
keep both feet on the pedals
never ride more than two abreast, and ride in single file on narrow or busy roads and when riding round bends
not ride close behind another vehicle
not carry anything which will affect your balance or may get tangled up with your wheels or chain
be considerate of other road users, particularly blind and partially sighted pedestrians. Let them know you are there when necessary, for example, by ringing your bell if you have one. It is recommended that a bell be fitted

marmitecp

+1 for everything Andywrx said.

The traffic coming from the east onto the expressway is FAST. You increase your risk factors by several hundered percent being anywhere near it.

Go under or walk around the wrong way. That area is no place to be practicing your assertive cycling technique.

Anonymous

Maybe I'll just use the subway then.

I'm perfectly away of the highway code jimmypippa, and I dont usually like riding two abreast, but this road was perfectly safe to do so, I guess it was busyish, the total streth there was about 4 cars pass, the road is very wide, you could fit 3 cars side by side on that road, maybe more and it was a 2 lane road.

Anyone live near oldham then? Any idea what the conditions are up there? icy? snowy? I was planning on doing a 36mile loop today going into the the pennines for a short period but.

spanielsson

willhub wrote:

Anyone live near oldham then? Any idea what the conditions are up there? icy? snowy? I was planning on doing a 36mile loop today going into the the pennines for a short period but.

I'm not that far from Oldham Will, the snow has not really left, totally different to here in town. It's freezing, you will need better gear than a festering old Clifton Chuffers CC jersey!!!

Anonymous

spanielsson wrote:

willhub wrote:

Anyone live near oldham then? Any idea what the conditions are up there? icy? snowy? I was planning on doing a 36mile loop today going into the the pennines for a short period but.

I'm not that far from Oldham Will, the snow has not really left, totally different to here in town. It's freezing, you will need better gear than a festering old Clifton Chuffers CC jersey!!!

I have 4 layers on, we went up cat and fiddle other day, I was fine, my bottle froze, some people even had ice hanging from there helmets

It's not so much the cold that bothers me, it's the ice on the road if it's there.

mercsport

willhub wrote:

Anyone live near oldham then? Any idea what the conditions are up there? icy? snowy? I was planning on doing a 36mile loop today going into the the pennines for a short period but.

I'm between Oldham and Huddersfield and have just been tooling about in the car today here in Saddleworth and it's ice and snow on the melt . Not nice for cyclists with big spray from passing traffic and narrowed passage due to mounded snow to either side on the tops over Stanage , Nont's and Isle o'Skye .

Anonymous

Wonder if it will be safe next Saturday?

cougie

Absolutely impossible to say !