Another bike hit by a car

[Azi Dahaka]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10614619

poor sod hope his family are ok

[steve_t]

I don't know the circumstances of the accident but again notice that the media wrote "motorbike collided with a car". Surely there are plenty of times where "car collided with their motorbike"!! Not that this is necessarily one of these times but it's gotta be the case a lot of the time!!

[meowmix]

They try to make him out to be in the wrong for going into the cyclist lane. WTF. They are insinuating its be ok for car drivers to ignore their surroundings. If it was a cyclist they still would have been hit. Car driver is at fault.
Damn media/cops/public.

[Katman]

Car driver is at fault.

Really? Shit, you seem to require even less information to make a judgment call than I do.

[Genie]

read that...what i don't understand is...if he did travel over to the cycle lane wtf was a car doing there???? strange

[White trash]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10614619

poor sod hope his family are ok

Ummmm, it'd be a pretty safe bet that they're not.

[Ixion]

I use the cycle lanes a fair bit. But, as with all such "not quite by the book" stuff, you need to be very aware and realise that it is down to you to keep out of harms way. Cars don't expect motorbikes in the cycle lane (of course, they don't expect bicycles there either). And they will shoot through gaps in the traffic.

It's a dangerous practice. Do it at your peril.

[ukusa]

read that...what i don't understand is...if he did travel over to the cycle lane wtf was a car doing there???? strange

The car could have been turning left, into a driveway or around a corner maybe?

[Ixion]

The most common danger (I'm not saying that it was necessarily so in this case), is that traffic is heavy, a car wants to turn right into a driveway, across the oncoming traffic flow. A courteous driver stops to let the turning vehicle cross, who plants foot and turns across straight into a bike barrelling down the cycle lane .

The price of filtering is eternal; vigilance

[Azi Dahaka]

Ummmm, it'd be a pretty safe bet that they're not.

you know what i mean

[riffer]

Really? Shit, you seem to require even less information to make a judgment call than I do.

DomPost reports car was at fault:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3148...fter-collision

[dipshit]

Cars don't expect motorbikes in the cycle lane (of course, they don't expect bicycles there either).

The difference being you may know there is a cyclist in the cycle lane because you just passed them down the road not that long ago.

A motorcyclist closing down from behind is a different story.

[oldrider]

If they are so concerned about motorcyclist behaviour being exact, according to law, how about accuracy in journalism and reporting!

[Azi Dahaka]

The difference being you may know there is a cyclist in the cycle lane because you just passed them down the road not that long ago.

A motorcyclist closing down from behind is a different story.

in heavy traffic when cars are moving 10 - 20 kmph cyclists can quite easly do 30 - 40 kmph depending on how fit they are. based on that they can close in from behind

[dipshit]

in heavy traffic when cars are moving 10 - 20 kmph cyclists can quite easly do 30 - 40 kmph depending on how fit they are. based on that they can close in from behind

True. But then most people take great satisfaction in running those ones over anyhow.