ghostlymachine on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
I'm quite amazed that some on here managed to keep their licence for more than a handful of days.
View ArticleJackHammer on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
#CameronsBritain *shakes head in disbelief*
View Articleepicyclo on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
hammyuk - Member ...The issue is the number of riders who quite often get bunched up and are then passing each other, causing havoc. ... It's got nothing to do with how near anyone is when overtaking -...
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hammyuk on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
Selective use of the quote button by several posters again... as usual...Perhaps you should drive that section. On a wednseday evening.. Then decide if its acceptable that riders and organisers act and...
View Articlearacer on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
In a collision between a motor vehicle and a cyclist where it can be shown that the cyclist did nothing wrong (as is usually the case), the driver should be automatically guilty of at least careless...
View Articlearacer on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
As far as I'm concerned - the sooner cyclists are held liable for their actions when on the road in the same way all other road users are the better.You mean like the ones driving around lethal...
View Articlehammyuk on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
I'm not disputing where it can definitively be shown aracer - regardless of who was on/in what fault is fault. However - you can be the best driver in the world but if a cyclist decides they are going...
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hammyuk » One rule for cyclists and one rule for everyone else? Is that what you're proposing?To some extent yes. Because the fundamental asymmetry means that if a cyclist rides carelessly that's not...
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hammyuk - Member ...but if a cyclist decides they are going to swerve across a lane without warning how are you going to miss them? ....By not being in that lane when overtaking like most decent people...
View Articleamedias on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
Just to pick up on this line, which shows one of the subtle little bits of ingrained entitlement that is part of the problem:So what is a safe speed for a dual carriageway, national speed limit road...
View Articleepicyclo on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
amedias - Member ...If the sole basis for banning cyclist on a road is 'because people cant drive safely enough around them' then I think that's a pretty poor argument.In fact it's a very good case for...
View ArticleMrSmith on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
Cyclists have an equal right to the roadThat's bullshit.As a subject of her Royal Majesty you have the inalienable right to cycle on the queens highway, motorists are merely licenced which is a...
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ernie_lynch on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
As a subject of her Royal Majesty you have the inalienable right to cycle on the queens highwaySo foreign aliens don't have an inalienable right to cycle on the Queen's highway. How can you tell if...
View ArticleMrSmith on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
Well an alien can be deported so that would remove any rights they had to use the highway.
View Articleanotherdeadhero on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
anotherdeadhero - you don't know me so I'd suggest winding that neck in of yours unless you can speak from first hand experience of this particular road. Can you?Oh my neck is going stay pretty suck...
View Articlecaptainsasquatch on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
You have a right as a cyclist, the motorist doesn't. I put this argument forward on a car forum that I play in, the response was that, while technically correct, it is wrong (in the eyes of the...
View Articleepicyclo on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
The fundamental problem seems to be that some drivers believe they have the right of precedence.I'm not sure how they assess their journey as being more valuable than the cyclist's or a pedestrian's,...
View ArticleMTB-Idle on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
The A24, one of a few roads that have inspired a song[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCFslnJTq4[/video]'Boxhill, Boxhill 'ere we come, I ain't 'appy till I've reached a ton, a cup a splosh and...
View Articlepeekay on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
A bit of an update from when this was a hot topic a few months ago.It looks like the chap who started the petition is being given some air time at a council meeting next weekCycling Weekly article with...
View Articlepeekay on "Banning Cycling on A24 Dorking to Leatherhead?"
Update from Cycling Weekly for those interested. Original local news article can be found through the CW link....
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