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Had a taxi do a zombie pull out right in front of me yards from home yesterday, not looking at all because window open and no engine noise from me sorry bud! on he goes.
Also noted many people running red lights quite openly in town. Suspect it's compensation for the 20mph limit. They'll go slow but they ain't giving up on the journey time.
Notwithstanding the seriousness of the incident, the stalwart EEN commentators will be wetting themselves when/if this gets to the media...
Note how in EEN the gender of the pedestrian hit is at the start of the article but the gender of cyclist is subtly added at the end. I see in the comments someone refers to the cyclist as a rotten creep more usually used in respect to males.
The significance of the gender of the victim being a woman and perpetrator being a man as oppose to woman, may create greater hostility to cyclists. May be it should not, but I would tend to think it would for a number of reasons. A male cyclist may be considered more reckless and aggressive, also a man knocking over a woman may be viewed somewhat differently than a woman knocking over a woman.
The pedestrian's gender is referenced 7 times in the article with gender specific words, the gender of the cyclist is mentioned once after opinion is set and in a way may not be noticed by some readers.
Either a rubbish journalist to create this bias in perception or some sort of ploy
Me on Saturday. Heading into town to meet friends to watch the rugby. Could have waited 5 seconds for the family in front of me to move on the innocent but instead I foolishly tried to overtake on the wet mud. Seems my usually mud proof cross tyres have had it cos I slid and had my first fall on the new bike since I got it in August. Landed a couple of meters in front of them.
Wrist sprained, knee bloody and swollen, road rash up my forearm. New jeans torn in two. Idiot. First time I went out without a helmet too, and lo and behold, I'm alive. Glasses flew off my head and landed a good few meters away, but I didn't think I was going that fast - I now under stand how serious having a fall or hit at speed could be. Lesson learned!
I slowed down for an amber light that was about to turn red at the end of Morrison Street at Haymarket. The guy behind clearly was paying attention as he nearly went into me and had to swerve, ending up on the pedestrian island. He gave a "f*** sake" and then went across the junction at the crossing.
Cyclists turning right from Gilmore Place towards meadows, who caused 3 of us heading from meadows onto Gilmore place to brake sharply owing to their failure to appreciate that we had priority.
Cyclists turning right from Gilmore Place towards meadows, who caused 3 of us heading from meadows onto Gilmore place to brake sharply owing to their failure to appreciate that we had priority.
This has come up here before. Can anyone confirm that the green light for traffic coming out of Tarvit Place lasts longer than the green light for traffic coming out of Gilmore Place?
A lady attempted a presumptuous overtake of me pulling the trailer today, didn't quite manage and forced me to take evasive action as she pulled in across me having not actually had the strength to complete the manoeuvre.
Owing to not being a terribly zen/gembo individual I suggested at the lights that she actually complete the overtake if she's going to go for it. Her response was - wait for it..... "put some h*****s on your kids next time then", thus rendering me even further from the art of motorcycle maintenance, if that were even possible.
@algo
I like to shoot at people sometimes and then harangue them about the price of junior body armour as they cower in ditches.
@IWRATS - can you put me on the mailing list for these outings please?
@frenchy no, this was not related to that - it was as the lights went green in both directions. they just tried to take priority despite turning, while we were going straight through and hence should have had priority.
Was me- all happened so fast, not really sure exactly what happened. Was heading down off the slip road to Ferrytoll, hopped off the curb at the bottom and headed through the cones to use the work area to get to IK high St. Lost a wheel - possibly because a puddle was drying out and was very muddy/slippy. Took a while to fall off, but result was cuts bruises and a broken arm.
Front wheel buckled beyond repair - thankfully it was only the hybrid.
Eek. Sorry to hear that @PI. Hope you heal well/fast.
Ouch. Sorry to hear that @paddyirish. GWS
Owowow. Hope it heals well.
Yikes - sounds horrible. Get well soon!
Oi vey paddy Irish it is rubbish at that massive building site just now. Glad was just the hybrid
Ouch, i hope the arm heals quicker than expected and you don't lose too much fitness.
We're the services involved to ensure it's properly recorded? The way they have treated cyclists there borders on negligent.
More bad luck than bad.
Young guy shoots off from lights with legs spinning.
Tries to change gear, except that mech/chain goes into spokes.
Looks round to see what's gone wrong, IPhone falls to ground!
Me. Approached a T junction, intending to turn right. Saw a slow moving van to my right, with left indicator flashing. Checked left, clear, so started pulling out of junction - straight into the path of the van which was now directly in front of me. Emergency stops all round so no contact made. Turns out the van had hazard lights on, not a left signal.
He was escorting a forklift truck, hence the reason for the hazards. Silly thing is, without the hazards, there would have been no confusion and no potential accident. So I'm going to lay part of the blame with rubbish use of hazards.
But lesson learnt, left indicator flashing doesn't always mean a left signal.
@Luath
Did the forklift have number plates? If not, it was on the road illegally. It should also have had its forks removed, for obvious reasons.
I'm also pretty sure the regs for escort vehicles aren't just "stick your hazards on"...
Going home eastbound along the Innocent on Friday I became aware that the drivetrain sounds bouncing off the wall to the left were not all from me. The turnip in the racing-costume less than a wheel-diameter behind evidently didn't need to be right behind me as he whooshed off as soon as his presence was declared unwelcome and was a good fifty metres ahead by Bingham.
@Murun B
Forklift had no number plates and its forks were deployed ready for spiking.
Misjudged an overtake of a family on the canal. Was in wrong gear, and didn't have enough space to get past. The guy coming towards me mouthed "Stupid" quite rightly, however I noted that he made no effort to brake even a little when he saw that I'd done something a little silly. If he'd feathered his brake a touch when I'd started overtaking it would have given me plenty of room. However definitely my fault. Bad Alex. I deserve a dunking with the ducks for committing the cardinal canal sin.
I was riding a high from successfully high fiving a lecturer friend of mine for the first time this week as I passed. Hubris is a terrible thing.
Possibly me, though accidentally. My chain got stuck between my smallest sprocket and the chainstay on my way down Easter Road, resulting in a short slide along the tarmac on my elbow. Fortunately, as it was sticking to the new 20mph limit, the car behind me stopped in time. Cheers to the cyclist who stopped to check and the nearby parked-car owner who fished out a first aid kit to stop my elbow dripping blood everywhere.
Hope there is no lasting damage wingpig.
Ta. It was starting to throb a little on my trip to the shop to buy more sterile dressings, but I'll still be able to commute tomorrow. The bike still worked, albeit with a ticking noise I'll have to check out before doing more than the inverse school run.
Teenage boy (and mates) on bike(s) heading up Innocent Tunnel (good thing) at lunchtime today.
He was so distracted by looking at his mobile phone that he was wobbing all over and then veered right directly into my path as I was heading down without any idea he'd done so (bad thing).
I yelled. Collision avoided by inches (good thing).
Hopefully lesson learned not to be engrossed by mobile screen while cycling. And hopefully he and his mates will be out on their bikes every day during the school holidays (good things).
Wonder if he and mates were heading SKELFwards (good thing).
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