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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:12 pm
by Pablo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/20246940
Ah sh#t hopefully his winter training isn't too interrupted and he's back fit for the tour next year. At least we can all drive to work tomorrow safe in the knowledge that we're not the most hated driver in Britain. 
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:40 am
by GB_Groundworks
is it true it was a woman driver.....
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:45 am
by lutonlagerlout
I could never recommend cycling in Britain ,too many nutty drivers. If it happens to the yellow jersey what chance have kids got?
LLL
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 3:36 pm
by Carberry
lutonlagerlout wrote:I could never recommend cycling in Britain ,too many nutty drivers. If it happens to the yellow jersey what chance have kids got?
LLL
I would say it is more dangerous for the spandex clad cyclists.
Read this article and the study in the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11110665
Short version: Wearing a womans wig is safer than wearing a bike helmet.
With a decent bike I can comfortably do 30 mph, on a slight decline I was hitting 35-40mph.
Drivers saw the bike then saw red. They didn't care that I was doing 30mph, they absolutely had to get past me despite it being really dangerous for both of us. I started cycling down the middle of the road to stop people overtaking me when it was dangerous. After that I started getting tw*ts giving me abuse at traffic lights, it didn't bother me until somebody deliberately tapped my bike and knocked me off. Ended up swinging my bike chain at his bonnet and taking off through the park.
Needs more understanding on both sides. Cyclists need to at least do the road theory test, carry ID and be answerable to police. Drivers need to stop being such pr*cks.
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:05 pm
by Tony McC
That bit of road is nowt but trouble. It's scary enough in a 4x4, but on a bike, even one of them silly ones with no engine, it is a nightmare. Traffic comes flying in from the east off a motorway juinction roundabout and from the west off a long curve rural A road to Burscough, and then there's the filling station (almost as dear as the m'way services) and Wrightington Lane leading down to Eccleston were the sideburned one lives, so you have cars trying to dart across oncoming traffic and hope nothing suddenly appears sight unseen from one side or the other.
You only have to seehow many bits of bodywork, lost hub caps and shattered rear-light lenses are lying in the verges to realise what a nasty spot it is.