Comments on: Another Bike Crash

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:26:07 +0000

I gave up driving a bike due to falling off too much. My wife wouldn’t let me anymore. I took up a car instead, but it seemed so much more expensive. Anyways, I took an intensive driving course and passed within a week, but they taught me how to be a safe driver, save money, and the environment. Do they do anything like this for Bike Riders? Then my wife might let me back on!

By: mike

mike — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:59:20 +0000

Pat, your crash sounded bad. I presume you have recovered now.

Kurt, I knew there were some but I thought they were pretty rare.
They should be a good thing and easier to negotiate as you only ever have to care about traffic from one direction. But if you are only used to standard traffic light controlled junctions they can be a bit weird.

Mike

By: Kurt Weiske

Kurt Weiske — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:21:21 +0000

Oh, we have roundabouts here in the states. The only problem is that a) no one knows how to design a sane one and b) American drivers don’t understand how to navigate them!

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:02:22 +0000

Sorry to hear the bad news. I too had a run in with a car accident on my bike a while back and it really is scary when people are just completely ignorant of cyclists. I hope you have a speedy recovery.

By: Caius Durling

Caius Durling — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:41:04 +0000

Some british drivers really do need shooting. All the people at college are good drivers when it comes to cyclists though, mainly because of me and my best mate moaning about bad drivers not paying attention to us cyclists.

We can only try and change the world…

By: Adrian Trenholm »

Adrian Trenholm » — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:27:38 +0000

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By: Ajay DSouza

Ajay DSouza — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:07:49 +0000

I nkow what a pain it can be!

Have had a few accidents on my motor bike and its been bad.

Basically half a day you seem fine and then your down and out for the next week

Well, I’m just too shameless to stop driving.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:58:31 +0000

Al Oh dear, those are two terrible stories. I know what you mean about your fiance not wanting you to ride. I'm lucky really, in that this is only my second bad accident in eight years of cycling. But it's the second in a three months, my other accident was slightly worse than this one! I think I'll have to go back to wearing my high-visibility reflective jacket even in broad daylight! But that's still no guarantee of course. Mike

By: Alistair

Alistair — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:28:38 +0000

We’ve just had a couple really bad bike related accidents involving Australians in the last week or so.

On Saturday 16th July, a triathlete was completing long distance training session and was knocked from his bike. At which point, the drivers stopped and whilst he was laying on the road concussed, abused him (I just couldn’t believe it). Thankfully, the accident happened near the beach and our Gold Coast Life Guards came to his rescue immediately.

The Australian Women’s Cycling team are in Germany at the moment. On Tuesday 19th July, they were hit by an out of control car, driven by a young female who has held her license for just 4 weeks. The accident killed Amy Gillett, placed two more in intensive care (where they remain still today, with grave fears that they may also die), whilst the other three escaped with a combination of broken bones and cuts.

It just isn’t good enough, people need to learn to pay more attention. My fiance doesn’t want me to get a road bike for the same reason, not because she has doubt in my ability to ride (I’ve been riding for years), but the inability of the average joe to pay attention and/or even see motorbikes on the road.

Al.