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just saw this video in my recommended and thought some might be interested in it.
the short version 2 cyclists got killed by a driver who was uninsured untaxed and didn't have a valid license so the govt decides to ban all bicycles on roads that have a 40mph or higher speed limit overnight!
rest in peace to the 2 cyclists i must add 🙁
RIP our two cycling 'friends' :o(
But... I avoid riding on roads with a high speed limit. Any road, in the UK, with a limit over 50mph just feels too dangerous to me. So I guess I already do what they've legislated for and I think it makes good sense.
No1: the large speed differential between me (on a bike) and other traffic feels risky. Time to see me and time to avoid me is reduced at higher speed.
No2: the outcome of any collision between me (on a bike) and other traffic doesn't bear thinking about.
But almost all the yellow roads on the os map have a 60 limit.
I’ll be honest, the cycling culture and laws of Brunei don’t really worry me, they can do whatever they want, I’m still not visiting…
But almost all the yellow roads on the os map have a 60 limit.
In the UK. I've no idea which roads that would.mean in Brunei (sorry, not watched the video), maybe they have limits on country lanes. Here in the UK we're already banned from motorways and some A-roads (A720 springs to mind) so there's already a ban on 70mph roads
I avoid riding on roads with a high speed limit. Any road, in the UK, with a limit over 50mph just feels too dangerous to me. So I guess I already do what they've legislated for and I think it makes good sense.
That's nearly all roads in the UK, outside towns and villages? Even the tiny potholed, grass up the middle country lanes surrounding my house are the default 60mph limit. Quite a few Amazon and Evri drivers seem to see that as a challenge too! I know what you mean, but I choose by type of road, not speed limit. Dual carriageways? Definitely avoid. Most A roads? Usually avoid. NSL B and unclassified roads? Case by case, but mostly I'll ride them.
I ride on mostly 40mph max roads but it is not the speed that concerns me, it is just the total lack of care from drivers (passing too close, overtaking on blind bends, into oncoming traffic etc,.) If they were going more slowly it may actually be worse as the amount of time they are next to me would be increased before they swerve back in.
I avoid riding on roads with a high speed limit. Any road, in the UK, with a limit over 50mph just feels too dangerous to me. So I guess I already do what they've legislated for and I think it makes good sense.
Technically aren't byways NSL?
Here in the UK we're already banned from motorways and some A-roads (A720 springs to mind) so there's already a ban on 70mph roads
Also only true of motorways, not DC's in general.
Not that I would generally ride on a proper DC A-road. I'm taking about actual 2+ lane DC's, not the trick question in a highway code quiz where they show you a grassy lane that meets the technical definition of a DC and ask you the speed limit (70).
I’ll be honest, the cycling culture and laws of Brunei don’t really worry me, they can do whatever they want, I’m still not visiting…
But mostly this, Brunei has far bigger systemic political issues than cycling.
I'm still not totally sure why we're talking about this in a UK context, this is a law change happening in a tiny, Islamic, Absolute Monarchy, awash with O&G money, halfway around the globe.
As a Dry state with their own implementations of a Sharia based punishments, I imagine there would be all sorts of uproar if the UK were to adopt Brunei's laws and sentencing guidelines. Riding a bicycle on A-Roads would be the least of our worries if that ever came to pass.
Still, it's fun to use our imaginations I guess...
Even the tiny potholed, grass up the middle country lanes surrounding my house are the default 60mph limit.
maybe these 'unclassified' roads ought to be max of 60kph/40mph, this is what is being done in Ireland:
https://www.rsa.ie/road-safety/campaigns/rural-speed-limit
We're talking about a tiny patch of an island somewhere in South East Asia......
Very doubt this will ever trouble me nor the majority of forum users.
Brunei has a population similar to that of Bristol. I would hazard a guess that more people in Bristol ride than they do in Brunei.
From Wiki....
"As of 2019, the country's road network constituted a total length of 3,713.57 kilometres (2,307.51 mi), out of which 86.8% were paved."
Spent two years in Brunei, it would be safer to ban driving...