How many points for a cyclist?

[Akzle]

Thereby getting inactive people out of cars and on to bikes, *executing them, much better for them and for road congestion.

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[Gremlin]

I think they should remove right of way from applying to bicycles, make it so they must give way to all other traffic,

Good idea... in the same vein we should probably give way to trucks, coz they're bigger again.... uh... yeah

Slightly amusing one I had on Sunday. IAM observed ride on Sunday, north west Auckland, rural 100kph road off Coatesville. I'm leading, with a trainee observer behind observing me. I come up on two cyclists, having the typical Sunday ride side by side, crawling along. Not enough forward vision to make a safe pass, so I sit and wait for a better opportunity. Right hand cyclist snaps out of his daydream a few seconds later and races to the left side of the road... cutting off his mate in the process, wheels touch, left cyclist now has his foot down trying to stop from bailing.

I back right off (well, as far as you can when you were only doing 20 odd kph anyway) not wanting human speed bumps, but they somehow both stayed upright and I felt it was a good time to leave them to their own devices

Actually, that was after 2 more cyclists almost got collected when we were turning into the side road and they did a u-turn in the side road right at the stop sign...

[Brian d marge]

Hang on , if we are cleaning up pedal power , I would hire a Mexican driver and use a car ,,,much more efficient !

Stephen

[jasonu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNFaAqS2f18

[bogan]

Oops, that's a repost

[Banditbandit]

Looks like he got target fixation pretty bad ... (There's a lot of videos on youtube of crashes on that corner .. )

How about this one ... I'll bet that was the last time this rider wore shorts and shitty shoes on his scooter

[Banditbandit]

THis one's just fucking dumb .. he opens the throttle and looses the back end ...

[jasonu]

Oops, that's a repost

Buggggggar

[Mushu]

rnickymouse - best channel on YouTube, my comment on the first video from the OP was pretty similar to the post I put on this thread, and it got do many thumbs down votes it was actually removed, lol

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[Brian d marge]

back in the day , we used to import a lot of american bikes , the tyres were as hard as concrete ,

just looking at the video(s) , they tend to be; American , men , late twenties/thirties , and fking useless on a motorbike ( some were just plain retarded )

stephen

[onearmedbandit]

Hence the reason the photographer was there.

To put it simply, no.

[Jantar]

.....just looking at the video(s) , they tend to be; American , men , late twenties/thirties , and fking useless on a motorbike ( some were just plain retarded )

stephen

Just looking at the videos there are a lot of riders losing traction at the exact same spot on the road, even though they are not anywhere near large angles of lean, and otherwise riding relatively cleanly. When you slow the videos down and go frame by frame there is a darker patch on the road surface. I'm wondering whether some video photographer is helping to ensure that many motorcyclist will come to grief at that exact spot.

[Glowerss]

Just looking at the videos there are a lot of riders losing traction at the exact same spot on the road, even though they are not anywhere near large angles of lean, and otherwise riding relatively cleanly. When you slow the videos down and go frame by frame there is a darker patch on the road surface. I'm wondering whether some video photographer is helping to ensure that many motorcyclist will come to grief at that exact spot.

One of the videos in the comments section, one of the guys who rides that bit of road regularly was saying that there are 2 unexpected dips in the road that catches a lot of people out. One of the dips is as you're coming out of the bend where a lot of people seem to crash. Potentially what that shadow is.

Regardless, we're americans. We don't know what the fuck a corner is or what to do with it, unless it only turns 1 way in a giant oval

[FJRider]

To put it simply, no.

Looking at the vid of the bike hitting the bicycles ... after the crash with all the cops and medics around. Look at how many are carrying their cameras (and not little pocket ones) about.

[GrayWolf]

Looking at the vid of the bike hitting the bicycles ... after the crash with all the cops and medics around. Look at how many are carrying their cameras (and not little pocket ones) about.

So what that tells you is.... they mostly know the road has some 'bad patches' to the extent people are going to be at those points with camera's..Not an exact 'give away' as to location.. But however, we are either, Too eogtistical, too fuckin dumb, "it aint gonna happen to me, I'm a GOOD rider", OR, ooo look, the camera's are there I'll show them how shit hot a rider I am......

Rather like the Rimutaka's on Sunday mornings