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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!r22g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <6006359e-4fae-4370-b019-16ab8a8a4d96@r22g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Advice on how to handle a situation Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:44:36 -0800 (PST) References: <3jmtn4d39l5ns3aqd77261jesrsd7pbfl6@4ax.com>  Lines: 39 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.151.152.80 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1233117876 3339 127.0.0.1 (28 Jan 2009 04:44:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r22g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.151.152.80; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3149 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:684144

On Jan 27, 12:35=A0pm, Tim Woodall  wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:07:22 +0000, > =A0 =A0 Mark  wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Thanks to cyclecraft and reading this NG I feel safer in general on > > the road. =A0However there is one kind of situation that I regularly ge= t > > faced with that I have had no success in mitigating. > > > The problem occurs on many different roads but happens regularly (i.e. > > almost every day). =A0I will try to describe it: > > > The road is a two way road, but not usually particularly wide. =A0There > > are a row of parked cars (or other obstruction) on the other side of > > the road. =A0 I am already abreast of the parked cars when a car/bus > > coming the other way overtakes the line of parked cars, driving > > straight at me on my side of the road, leaving less than 3 feet of > > road for me and sometimes much less. > > When I had a route on a road like that I found a different route. I'd > wait for the cars coming the other way and once it was clear I'd go. > About 1 time in 5 either I'd get through before a car or van came the > other way or I'd have another vehicle immediately infront of or behind > me. But the remaining 80% of the time a car would come the other way and > would not wait (100% - there were absolulely no cases where the car > waited for me. I probably "met" a car or van 80 or 90 times before I > changed the route.

I think part of the problem comes from the fact that it is fairly common for drivers to temporarily ignore the "door's width" advice when the space isn't there. But I appreciate that it is far too dangerous for a cyclist to ever do that. I must admit that while I would never "drive at" a cyclist, I maybe haven't waited for oncoming cyclists as often as I should have in situations like those described. I will make a point of doing so.