Cagers and roundabouts..

[ZeroIndex]

Eastside Apo.. if anything, it was to say.. GET A FASTER BIKE, so you can enter roundabouts at higher speeds, and get through them before anyone even sees you..

[ZeroIndex]

And when it gets even better all the bike roads change to gravel.

that would just be crap..

[Lou Girardin]

The old roundabout indicating bitch again.
Sorry folks, if you can't manipulate your thumb to indicate left when exiting a roundabout you shouldn't be riding.
Try buses, you don't have to move a finger on them.

[Karlyg]

What I'm hating about people at roundabouts is this new thing of indicating left then right and yet they are going STRAIGHT thru! What gives?? The potential for a f**kup is HUGE.

The rule is: as you enter - if turning left, indicate left, if turning right, indicate right, if going straight ahead, don't indicate. as you are about to leave - indicate left before your exit and after the last one. (Just sat my scratchie a couple of months ago)

[ZeroIndex]

The rule is: as you enter - if turning left, indicate left, if turning right, indicate right, if going straight ahead, don't indicate. as you are about to leave - indicate left before your exit and after the last one. (Just sat my scratchie a couple of months ago)

yes.. that's the rules I follow.. don't know which rule-book those bloody cagers read..

[Ixion]

The don't. Someone told them "y'godda indeecade thing at rannabartz nah".

But they can't figure it out. So , at the start of the roundabout, cos it's , like, curved, man, they're sorta going LEFT, right? So they indicate left. Then as the curve contiues, they find "sheetz, naw Iz gawn RIGHT, man". So they indicate right. Then notice that the exit they want is RIGHT HERE, MAN. So they just blat down it."Yeah . man , I done indeecatered on da ronnabart, eh, godda follo da rulz eh"

[Jantar]

The rule is: as you enter - if turning left, indicate left, if turning right, indicate right, if going straight ahead, don't indicate. as you are about to leave - indicate left before your exit and after the last one. (Just sat my scratchie a couple of months ago)

And with a standard 4.5 meters on a single lane roundabout between passing the previous exit and entering your exit you will have 5/13 of a second to indicate at 50 kmh. At the queenstown roundabouts with only 2.5 meters you will have 3/13 of a second.

[Lou Girardin]

And with a standard 4.5 meters on a single lane roundabout between passing the previous exit and entering your exit you will have 5/13 of a second to indicate at 50 kmh. At the queenstown roundabouts with only 2.5 meters you will have 3/13 of a second.

Do 50 km/h through them in Auckland traffic and you'll soon be an ex-biker.
Even an ex-person.

[ManDownUnder]

Find and read the threads on "owning the road". There's some good stuff in there and it's actually not too hard to considerably reduce your chances of being a victim

[Jantar]

Do 50 km/h through them in Auckland traffic and you'll soon be an ex-biker.
Even an ex-person.

A bloody good reason NOT to live in Auckland.

[Lou Girardin]

A bloody good reason NOT to live in Auckland.

Just one of many. But living with the risk of imminent death does give us this devil may care attitude to life.

[SpankMe]

Cagers at roundabouts come in two types.

Those that don't bother even looking and just shoot straight through.
And those that must wait until the roundabout is completely clear before moving out.

But I still prefer roundabouts to lights. And what is it with the council and traffic lights for pedestrian crossings. They seem to be popping up fucking everywhere. It's like they have a traffic light budget that they must spend. If pedestrians need to cross the bloody road, they can fucking walk to the end of the road or wait at a zebra crossing.

[JohnR]

And what is it with the council and traffic lights....

There is either a really good traffic light salesperson operating in Auckland or their incentive deals are fantastic Lincoln Rd in Westieland being one of his more successful areas!

[Morepower]

The problem with round abouts is that half hearted attempt at education that was on TV a year or so back managed to cause mass confusion. They need to take some of that budget for tv adds showing cars falling from 9 floors , speeders are killing us etc. and teach the road code on TV. The average person seems totaly confused by indicators and when to use them on roundabouts, I work on the basis that the indicators are just that , an indication and not worth betting my life on , I just look for a gap and if its big enough I go for it.
Waiting to give way to someone who then turns left is bloody agrivating though.

[Magua]

This is the problem I face, I'm heading in the direction of the black arrow, yet every oncoming person (red), is indicating right as they move through that roundabout when they have no intention of turning. I have friends that do it too.