Comments on: Off My Bike! http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=off-my-bike Mike Little's not-quite-so-daily thoughts, babblings, and random synapse firings! Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:14:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: zoe g http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-33154 zoe g Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:52:21 +0000 http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/#comment-33154 Ouch! Ouch!

]]> By: sue http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-32783 sue Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:30:10 +0000 http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/#comment-32783 aw mike , poor you , hope your ok soon , was thinking my bike should come out , but, i think it can stay in the shed , i wouldnt do a roll ect , i'd end up in a horrid mess , take care xxx aw mike , poor you , hope your ok soon , was thinking my bike should come out , but, i think it can stay in the shed , i wouldnt do a roll ect , i’d end up in a horrid mess , take care xxx

]]> By: tank green supa hero beauty queen http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-32566 tank green supa hero beauty queen Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:38:46 +0000 http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/#comment-32566 hehehehe, we are so backwards us cyclists. ;) hehehehe, we are so backwards us cyclists. ;)

]]> By: mike http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-32373 mike Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:15:34 +0000 http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/#comment-32373 Tank(supa hero beauty queen!) thanks for the thoughts, I did have to get my bike out of the road before I got round to assessing my own damage! I did check it was OK too. Caius, I do tend to hug the pavement a bit, but I make sure I take advantage of the green cyclist areas at traffic lights and so on. WS, I don't ride particularly aggressively bit I do ride fast. I'm not timid about taking my place in traffic when I need to. I do tend to ride either when the traffic is so busy to be crawling along or even standing or else later when the traffic is light. So I normally have it quite safe. Lisa, I agree. Most drivers are quite poor at spotting each other let alone cyclists! And when they do see me they nearly always misjudge my speed. I don't know what it is that makes them blind to just how fast I am travelling. Pedestrians are the same, they see 'bike' and think 'slow'. Tank(supa hero beauty queen!) thanks for the thoughts, I did have to get my bike out of the road before I got round to assessing my own damage! I did check it was OK too.

Caius, I do tend to hug the pavement a bit, but I make sure I take advantage of the green cyclist areas at traffic lights and so on.

WS, I don’t ride particularly aggressively bit I do ride fast. I’m not timid about taking my place in traffic when I need to. I do tend to ride either when the traffic is so busy to be crawling along or even standing or else later when the traffic is light. So I normally have it quite safe.

Lisa, I agree. Most drivers are quite poor at spotting each other let alone cyclists! And when they do see me they nearly always misjudge my speed. I don’t know what it is that makes them blind to just how fast I am travelling. Pedestrians are the same, they see ‘bike’ and think ‘slow’.

]]> By: Apple Mac Freak » Blog Archive » Cycling Part One. http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-32296 Apple Mac Freak » Blog Archive » Cycling Part One. Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:35:34 +0000 http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/#comment-32296 [...] « Blog Comments Cycling Part One. Just read Mike’s account of cycling accident and left the below comment on his blog. I [...] […] « Blog Comments Cycling Part One. Just read Mike’s account of cycling accident and left the below comment on his blog. I […]

]]> By: Caius Durling http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-32294 Caius Durling Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:29:24 +0000 http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/#comment-32294 I cycle everywhere in my town. (UK town.) As I don't drive yet, I have learn't very quickly how to ride in my town so that no one takes a swipe at you, and that everyone sees you. basically there is no law saying you have to ride in the gutter, as everyone seems to do, so I take heed of this (lack of) law, and ride in the middle of my lane. By doing this it makes sure that car drivers see you, and THINK about how to overtake you, and whether it endangers them. You would be amazed at the amount of people that think you have to ride over the drain covers, and that being dangerously overtaken by a car/bus is part of riding a bike on the road. Glad you are ok, and I thankfully have never been hit, although I have been in a few dicey situations where I have had to take evasive action. My plan if I ever get hit is to just lie there and groan. Then the car driver might actually stop and realise they have seriously broken the law, plus it gives people a chance to get the registration plate number. I cycle everywhere in my town. (UK town.) As I don’t drive yet, I have learn’t very quickly how to ride in my town so that no one takes a swipe at you, and that everyone sees you. basically there is no law saying you have to ride in the gutter, as everyone seems to do, so I take heed of this (lack of) law, and ride in the middle of my lane.

By doing this it makes sure that car drivers see you, and THINK about how to overtake you, and whether it endangers them. You would be amazed at the amount of people that think you have to ride over the drain covers, and that being dangerously overtaken by a car/bus is part of riding a bike on the road.

Glad you are ok, and I thankfully have never been hit, although I have been in a few dicey situations where I have had to take evasive action. My plan if I ever get hit is to just lie there and groan. Then the car driver might actually stop and realise they have seriously broken the law, plus it gives people a chance to get the registration plate number.

]]> By: tank green supa hero beauty queen http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-32276 tank green supa hero beauty queen Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:21:01 +0000 http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/#comment-32276 ouch!!! glad you are okay though. car drivers are so inconsiderate, aren't they? practically all my accidents have been hit and runs. tell me, did you check your bike for injuries before yourself? i always do! i check my bike is okay and then notice that i am broken or dislocated somehere. lol. somone doesn't have her priorities right! mike, the most 'mistaken for' man in the world. ;) ouch!!! glad you are okay though. car drivers are so inconsiderate, aren’t they? practically all my accidents have been hit and runs.

tell me, did you check your bike for injuries before yourself? i always do! i check my bike is okay and then notice that i am broken or dislocated somehere. lol. somone doesn’t have her priorities right!

mike, the most ‘mistaken for’ man in the world. ;)

]]> By: Lisa Williams http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-32054 Lisa Williams Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:59:40 +0000 http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/#comment-32054 Owww! God, it hurt to just *read* that. The thing is, motorists pull out into the street, and *then* look. By the time they even look, they're already in the part of the street that a cyclist would occupy. Here in Boston I ride fairly far out to the left to avoid the opening doors of parked cars, and people pulling out of side streets. At least the cars behind me, although they may not like me, can see me! But still, plenty of people will pull out right in front of a cyclist, either because they didn't see them or misjudge their speed. Owww! God, it hurt to just *read* that.
The thing is, motorists pull out into the street, and *then* look. By the time they even look, they’re already in the part of the street that a cyclist would occupy.

Here in Boston I ride fairly far out to the left to avoid the opening doors of parked cars, and people pulling out of side streets. At least the cars behind me, although they may not like me, can see me! But still, plenty of people will pull out right in front of a cyclist, either because they didn’t see them or misjudge their speed.

]]> By: ws http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-32026 ws Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:40:59 +0000 http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/#comment-32026 I bike in an urban area, and I've found that if you drive agressively and avoid fast-moving traffic areas you'll be fine. Given a choice between being hit by a car and running off onto the sidewalk and crashing (or even in a spot on the road where there's no traffic), I'd choose the option that doesn't involve running into a car. Fortunately, I've been lucky, and most of the crashes I've had haven't been caused directly by cars: instead they've been because needed parts happened to break at inopportune times. The remedy for that is to not buy cheap parts... I bike in an urban area, and I’ve found that if you drive agressively and avoid fast-moving traffic areas you’ll be fine. Given a choice between being hit by a car and running off onto the sidewalk and crashing (or even in a spot on the road where there’s no traffic), I’d choose the option that doesn’t involve running into a car.

Fortunately, I’ve been lucky, and most of the crashes I’ve had haven’t been caused directly by cars: instead they’ve been because needed parts happened to break at inopportune times. The remedy for that is to not buy cheap parts…

]]> By: mike http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-31900 mike Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:19:21 +0000 http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/04/19/off-my-bike/#comment-31900 OJ I think you've got the wrong Mike! I'm Jamies's dad Mike, not Mike Connolly! OJ I think you’ve got the wrong Mike! I’m Jamies’s dad Mike, not Mike Connolly!

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