If a cyclist does something that upsets a driver the driver is allowed the endanger the cyclists life to teach them a lesson.
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Golden Rules of Cycling
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Posted 13 years ago #
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when trying to undertake a cyclist on a roundabout, the correct procedure is to maintain your line and speed and force the inconsiderate idiot out of your way.
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'Sheer weight of traffic' is a legitimate reason for a jam that does not implicate any drivers in being responsible for that jam.
One bike keeping a safe line through a 10 yard road narrowing is holding a driver up.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Here's one for you in the spirit of fellow-cyclist bashing rather than motorist bashing :)
Posted 13 years ago # -
Hmm, if a cyclist was to be affected by spray from a cyclist in front, would that not suggest that they are cycling too close? What if the front cyclist had to brake sharply?
Anyway, not all bikes can take mudguards. ;)Posted 13 years ago # -
"not all bikes can take mudguards. ;) "
Then if they are for the road, they are badly designed ;-)
;-pPosted 13 years ago # -
cycling too close
between 3 inches and no more than one-wheel distance in chain gang!
Posted 13 years ago # -
that or just cycle 6" to their right shoulder and the spray will go over your left...
Posted 13 years ago # -
And the chaingang is the least likely place to find mudguards.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I've been hit by spray riding 10 feet behind someone without 'guards!
And riding up to overtake someone it's not always practical to ride out to the right from far behind - only do it if you know the road/likelihood of someone having to stop suddenly etc.
Posted 13 years ago # -
at or just cycle 6" to their right shoulder and the spray will go over your left..."
I do this anyway incase the cyclist ahead brakes for any reason...
Posted 13 years ago # -
I do this anyway incase the cyclist ahead brakes for any reason
Which "shouldn't" happen in a chain without prior warning. If it does the perpetrator is open to abuse.
Agree with what spitters says about riding en-echelon where practical. Means you can see ahead, you aren't in their wake and if they do break suddenly you're less likely to run into the back.
Also, it's just bad manners to draft someone if you're not in a chain.
However guards keep your own bum dry. And your bike is kept cleaner, most importantly!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Guards' primary function is to keep the rider on the bike clean. Just how far round the wheel would they have to go to stop any water from being sprayed up behind?
Posted 13 years ago # -
I'd be interested to know how much spray mine throw up. The new Vaverts appear longer than the SKS I had on before, and there's a mudflap making them even longer...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Mudguards with built-in flaps/turn-ups are good.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Just how far round the wheel would they have to go to stop any water from being sprayed up behind?
I think centrifugal (centripedal?) force helps by throwing proportionately more of the water up rather than back. I notice that when it's proper wet, a lot of the water that "gets me" is actually leaking forwards and around the edges of the front guard.
SKS chromoplastics use to come with the flaps front and rear. Now you just get a reduced flap at the front. My yellow Planet Bike ones have front and rear flaps.
Smudge has previously offered advice on DIY flaps I think.
Posted 13 years ago # -
My SKS have both flaps! (does this sound wrong to anyone else?)
Posted 13 years ago # -
"The new Vaverts"
WHAT? You can buy white full mudguards?
Awwww :(
Does anyone want a pair of used-once SKS guards? ;-)
Posted 13 years ago # -
Tis my brown ones on the Kaff. But yes, you can get white ones, but they have a pink stripe down the middle...
Posted 13 years ago # -
You can buy flaps for your mudguards. Dutch, of course.
Posted 13 years ago # -
When cutting up cyclist within inch of life, and making sport thereof at the next junction, a driver may find topical relief from any impending cognitive dissonance by uttering the magic phrase "you're causing chaos on the roads"
Posted 13 years ago # -
Just to say, a few of these ideas have found themselves in the next issue of citycycling, online on Friday!
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