Every right to be there - was there an alternative? Was she a tourist, those trailers are nifty for carrying your gear without adding to control problems with panniers.
Where I live there are few footpaths and you should see the mistakes motorists make all the time and the fuss about "their" road.
How responsible was everyone else that they were driving in a manner that lead to emergency avoidance??
Oh, and her Carbon footprint was massively less than the road users! She has a right to feel self-righteous too?
Every right to be there!
Shay
ES i have to say i agree with you yes legally she is alowed there but if she lives in that area and knows the A14 like most people and the death a distruction that is cause on that section of road she should be RESPONSIBLE and stay off it on a push bike i wont even venture on that section On a motorcycle let a lone a push bike, nearly every morning there is an accident on that section of the A14 from huntingdon to cambridge.
Just goes to show the arrogance of most road users...i have driven along the A14 recently and could'nt believe the crass stupidity of some of the drivers...white van man the worst offender followed closely by some prick called Willy Betz.....if Ms. Cyclist did get shunted into the kerb i would cheerfully be the first to administer the Last Rites...!
came across another twat on a bike this morning, seems they are everywhere not just the A14, this one was a fella! So must have been a different one to the one i saw before and eager saw originally, bloody hell they are spreading
wrats
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Well everybody on the road is going to want to asset their "rights" and there is nothing wrong with that, but times move on. I have every "right" to ride a horse along a public road or cycle or even walk but its being realistic about it that matters. I know I have rights but its not going to be of any help to me if I end up dead !
Modern traffic is fast, even a cheap old banger can have the power/ acceleration of a sports car of many years ago! Trucks were beasts that you would fight to get up to any speed then fight to keep in control of. Now its different. so I am different and however much I daydream the reality is its not the same traffic as yesteryear however much I pretend it is.
When I was a kid I used to go on the A14 to Cambridge on my cycle with my friend, (we are talking 30 years ago btw) and never had any trouble. I would never do this now due to the traffic load, although I agree the cyclist has every right to be there she should have known better, although saying that there are a couple of little villages on the A14 that you can only access by using the A14.
Forgive me if I have not read ALL of the posts but this point sticks out to me, a safe braking distance is a distance in which you can stop safely, therefore if you cannot SEE in front of you far enough to enable this then YOU are not allowing a SAFE braking distance, therefore YOU are the one that should be scolded for undue care and attention on the road, harsh but true. Larry.
what annoys me is that cyclists don't have to have insurance to be on the road..... they could cause an accident but with no insurance..what can you do.
However off subject slightly...but the ones i hate most are Horse people.. the amble down the road ( no insurance again) ..leave the horse shit all over the road ( if a dog owner did this would be strung up from nearest lamp post) and then they expect you to slow down. If the hosrse is not used to fast moving vehicles, and noise, they it shouldn't be on the bloody road in the first place.
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First of all apologises in case this has being mentioned somewhere else here, I havent read the entire thread.
Personally speaking, if cyclists want to use busy highways then why should they be exempt from road tax and insurance? I have witnessed so much careless cycling it really makes my heart skip a beat. Families out for a ride, Father, Mother, 2 kids riding abreast of each other, have some people no sense? Perhaps if they were made to take a test, what happened to the old, cycling proph wotsits test? and pay tax and insurance they would treat the road and other users a little more they have a right to be there but so have other road users and a little consideration wouldnt go amiss.
We now have cycle lanes on roads and what really gets to me is the number of cyclists who decide not to use them!I sometimes wonder if they have a death wish.
And why, when you read reports or see something on the news is it always the drivers fault??
Rant over
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