These should be compulsory

[Forest]

An electronic indicator isn't going to make no difference if they don't use the rules in the first place is it...

Enforcing cyclists (of all ages) to to abide by the road rules should be done yes... just as any other road user...

But if they start enforcing the road rules for cyclists ... then they might start enforcing the road rules for motorbikes.

And where is the fun in that???

[NOMIS]

Cyclists really upset you that much?I think that would be rediculous......!!! wer'e supposed to be encouraging cyclsts stop trying to punish them for being green and getting exercise, I don't ride a bicycle but hell I don't mind if during their manually powered trip they break a couple of rules good on them.....we all bend the rules a little at times.....besides theyr'e only generally gonna hurt themselves (I said generally!!!!).....just my 2cents, and just for the record the way some people on here complain about cyclists I hear a lot of cagers saying similar stuff about us, we aren't angels and far more dangerous to others than them.

Well try sitting behind them when there riding 6 abreast in the bus/bike lane down quay st in peak hour traffic cruising along.

Some are blood pricks, kicked it down into 1st and screamed through all of them. I engourage it but if they paid more attention to me and the bus ( by having mirrors ) things would be a little better.

[speights_bud]

Considering cyclists are possibly the slowest of Road users don't you think Mirror's should be compulsory? i mean how often have you been out riding and they are using the middle of the lane and have no idea you are approaching from behind?? i tend to lean on the horn as soon as i see them. Especially Paekak hill. Bloody Road lice

[McJim]

Cyclists are our brothers. We must unite against the caged ones!unk:

Seriously though how many times you been out in the cage and passed a truck and he's been pissed off you got past him? How many times have you passed a car on the bike and had him beep the horn or (in Blackbuell's case) try to hunt you down in the twisties (big mistake there). I've had cars try to ram me for lane splitting on the Southern Motorway so it's only natural to see people gettin uptight and indignant about the liberties taken by cyclists who are, essentially, pedestrians and THEY have right of way at all times.....along with horses. In fact I saw about a hundred sheep on a road recently and None of them had mirrors or indicators!

[firefighter]

Well try sitting behind them when there riding 6 abreast in the bus/bike lane down quay st in peak hour traffic cruising along.

Some are blood pricks, kicked it down into 1st and screamed through all of them. I engourage it but if they paid more attention to me and the bus ( by having mirrors ) things would be a little better.

well theyr'e obviously out to get you!

[MisterD]

Considering cyclists are possibly the slowest of Road users don't you think Mirror's should be compulsory? i mean how often have you been out riding and they are using the middle of the lane and have no idea you are approaching from behind?? i tend to lean on the horn as soon as i see them. Especially Paekak hill. Bloody Road lice

We're also the quietest road users, and I guarantee I'd hear you before you saw me on any twisty road.

[gismo]

i always give other road users respect on the road.. weather they be in a truck, a car, a motorbike, a push bike or just walking the beat.

But i expect to get respect in return.

Indicators and mirrors on a push bike...... nup!! But the jacket i think is a good idea. Again tho.. it comes down to them lifting their arm.

[speights_bud]

We're also the quietest road users, and I guarantee I'd hear you before you saw me on any twisty road.

You might very well, and i do not mind Cyclists on appropriate roads,l However the issue's i have are with the cyclists who FAIL TO KEEP AS FAR LEFT AS POSSIBLE/PRACTICAL.

I understand that all road users must be able to stop within clear distance etc, and that we all have equal liabilities as users of the road, but considering that i am a PAYING user of the road i do honestly expect Cyclists to KEEP LEFT and out of the way of traffic, for their own safety of course.

[motorbyclist]

You might very well, and i do not mind Cyclists on appropriate roads,l However the issue's i have are with the cyclists who FAIL TO KEEP AS FAR LEFT AS POSSIBLE/PRACTICAL.

I understand that all road users must be able to stop within clear distance etc, and that we all have equal liabilities as users of the road, but considering that i am a PAYING user of the road i do honestly expect Cyclists to KEEP LEFT and out of the way of traffic, for their own safety of course.

last week me and drider were in his cage and had an interesting situation with an oncoming cyclist, on our left of the road... still count?

[speights_bud]

Aye... was he coming towards you, on the left hand side of your lane? ie travelling in the wrong direction?

[motorbyclist]

yep
it was nearing dusk, heavy traffic, very busy road, and he's on the wrong side of the road

in his defence he was pulling into a driveway and was reasonably close to the kerb, but why he had to ride along the wrong side of the road to do so and couldn't use the footpath or simply use the median is beyond me - very disconcerting for other road users and obviously dangerous

[Blue Babe]

When I was a young girl (7 or 8yrs old), growing up in Rhodesia, we had to sit a test to be allowed to have out bicycles on the road & then it was renewed every year. Each time you passed you had to get a metal licence badge which was attached to the bike, so if you got stopped, which we did fairly regularly, you could show that you had done the proficiency test. The bicycles, themselves, had to pass a road worthiness test too. In those days I used to ride my bike to & from school & at weekends my mates & I would disappear for a whole day riding to different places. Wouldn't do that now over there

[Swoop]

The Road User Rule 2004.
11.10 Riding abreast.
(1) A person must not ride a cycle or moped on a roadway so that it remains abreast and to the right of-

1. (a) 2 other vehicles that are cycles or mopeds; or
2. (b) 1 other cycle or moped while that cycle or moped is overtaking and passing another vehicle, including a parked vehicle; or
3. (c) any other vehicle having 3 or more road wheels (including a motorcycle fitted with a sidecar).

(2) Subclause (1) does not apply if cyclists are participating in a race that is subject to a traffic management plan agreed by the road controlling authority.


I wonder how many psyclists know this...

[gismo]

Today my partner and I went to Motueka to visit my family. We were in the car driving into Motueka just before the main shopping area starts, and there in front of us, is a young boy (approx. 10ish) riding his bicycle swerving all over the road.
I slowed down and tooted the horn to let him know i was behind him. Then the little bastid gave me the fingers.
I wonder if his parents would appreatiate him getting home in one piece, or a policeman turning up on their doorstep telling them he had been killed by a car hitting him.
And another thought.. the motorist always gets the stick by the media for hitting cyclists. In all honesty i felt like turning around and running him down. It's the little shits like that that need to realise that they are the most vunerable on the roads.
Thinks a car would come off better in that contest.