The Canary Dave

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Morning all

Chucking it down again. I'm happy to share the road with cyclists, less pleased to have to dodge them on a footpath or wade through mud churned up by mountain bikes. I do think they should have wing mirrors if they plan to travel on busy city roads and weave in and out of traffic.
 
Morning all

Chucking it down again. I'm happy to share the road with cyclists, less pleased to have to dodge them on a footpath or wade through mud churned up by mountain bikes. I do think they should have wing mirrors if they plan to travel on busy city roads and weave in and out of traffic.

and insurance
and road tax
and maybe a licence to award points to for running lights etc
 
and insurance
and road tax
and maybe a licence to award points to for running lights etc

Insurance - yes, a reasonable idea given that cyclists themselves appear to be increasingly becoming more at fault for many accidents

Road tax - or more correctly, as we don't tax roads, vehicle tax - would surely be a negligible amount given the minimal amount of CO2 emissions from a bicycle :)

Licence - bad idea IMO - the need for a driving licence is ignored by many anyway and 'policing' unlicenced cyclists would be little more that a nightmare exercise.

For my money, the best idea would simply to have a zero tolerance policy towards such cyclists - give police the power of on-the-spot confiscation if they spot them breaching the road rules....
 
As a cyclist, I have the same opinion of cabbies!

As a motorist who has every sympathy with cyclists on our overcrowded roads, I have the same opinion as canary-dave but about motorbikes - or at least their riders who seem to think that the rules of the road don't apply to them - lane discipline, overtaking, speed limits etc. etc.
 
I think we can conclude from this that everybody who uses the road, is thought of as inconsiderate by everybody else except, of course, by themselves.
 
yep, and give up driving

It was bloody good driving. I went off the road at just the right place at just the right speed so that I landed on the only flat spot available and didn't go tumbling down 200m. Not only that I landed on all four wheels. As a prize I got a free helicopter ride to hospital.
 
I think we can conclude from this that everybody who uses the road, is thought of as inconsiderate by everybody else except, of course, by themselves.

A survey was done, in NZ I think, that discovered that 70-80% of drivers think that they are above average at driving. This proves that it really is the other blokes fault.