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  • Tonymufc
    Tonymufc Posts: 1,016
    Its your right of way dude. If the driver didn't agree with you then thats just tough sh1t. I'm a truck driver and I do know the highway code. I often like to tell motorists that when they try to get clever with me. Soon shuts them up.
  • NWLondoner
    NWLondoner Posts: 2,047
    As all the others have said YOU had right of way.

    I get it all the time, the driver thinks you are approaching the junction slower than what you actually are. So they try to cut across and either they have to break quickly or I do.


    p.s can we either BAN all roundabouts or put traffic lights on them. They are just too dangerous for us cyclists.
  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    If you have to ask the bike radar forums how road junctions work, you really need to get a copy of the Highway Code and actually learn it.

    I perfectly appreciate the reasons why there's no formal test for cyclists, but really despair that there are people riding bikes on the road that don't have a clue (not Will personally) what the rules of the road are.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Oxford Road is horrendous.

    Always hated doing blue light runs down there in the Tactical Aid Unit van...
  • john-e-big-guns
    john-e-big-guns Posts: 489
    Headhuunter wrote:
    I got honked unecessarily this morning. I was cycling along Cheapside with nothing much ahead or behind me when a massive cement mixing truck pulled out in front of me from a parked position on the side of the road ahead forcing me to brake. He hadn't indicated and pulled out quite wide leaving quite a large gap between him and the curb. Without any kind of signal I assumed that he would be moving off straight ahead and by this time I was up level with it on the left, ready to filter past him and other traffic in front to get to the lights, however suddenly, again without indication, it did a big arch to pull into a construction site. There was a banksman on the other side of him stopping traffic in the other lane, but no banksman behind and as I said, no inidication. I was forced to put a spurt on to get round before he pulled across my path and into the site. As I whizzed round the fool honked at me! How about not pulling out in front of me and indicating your intentions mate?!


    The wagon driver should have had his hazard lights on and the banksman should have been at the rear off side of the wagon to stop traffic[like yourself] passing the rear of the wagon, as the banksman is there to check the 'blindside' of the wagon for the wagon driver
    No Pain; No Gain;

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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    Today, I was on Oxford road, right opposite where I nearly got knocked over, I was at the traffic lights coming the other way, they where on red, and the car at the side of me... just goes.... the lights where on red, traffic coming from the right, and this car just sets off........

    At a traffic lights down deandgate some womma was faffing around with something in the car, lights where on green, I had to shout GO at her..... :roll:

    I seen a cyclist on the wrong side of the road, on my lane on Oxford road, so I swerved into them just missing them as planne, just on that 3 lane bit near the traffic lights just before the Palace theatre.
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    freehub wrote:
    The most risky part of oxford road I think is near the BBC, all those busses.

    Anyone know if it's true Oxford Road is the busiest bus route in Europe? Or is it urban myth?

    For the past 4 years, the stretch from All Saints, past the BBC up to the cornerhouse has had the most cycling deaths in Europe. 150-something, last time I checked. There's regularly signs up, with statistics every time there's a serious accident.

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