Group riding - how big is too big

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  • walney
    walney Posts: 35
    Yes, if the cyclist is travelling less than 10mph as I stated in my first post.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    madasahattersley wrote:
    hangeron wrote:
    How many riders take up the same roadspace as a HGV, or a tractor and trailer, or a coach?
    Irrelevant...
    Not totally irrelevant everywhere.
    The rule in Germany is that groups of 16+ riders have the right to ride in pairs as a closed group, and vehicles wanting to overtake have to consider the group the same as if it were a HGV, a farm tractor and trailer, or a coach, albeit slow-moving, and so behave accordingly carefully.
    I don't see why a similar approach/rule couldn't be adopted here.

    Such a closed group has the right to react as if it were one item, so (for example) if traffic lights change to red after only a quarter of the group is through, the remaining three-quarters have the right to carry on through red.

    This right is made use of at the occasional so-called ‘critical-mass’ demonstrations by cyclists wanting improvements. 2000 riders riding in pairs as a closed group across a junction can easily take 20+ mins to pass, so brings other traffic at that junction to a complete stop. If the closed group then does this over several inner city junctions ….

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