Bad video is bad.
Pedantic forum is pedantic.
reaction - bloody hell be careful around big trucks.. specifically if they are on your right and you're near a junction
Interesting - I'm glad I asked rather than being rude about what I assumed you did or didn't think. Though I was after something a bit more specific - exactly what does "be careful" mean, in terms of actions a novice cyclist might take after seeing that video?
For example do you think they will particularly avoid filtering down the left of slow moving or stationary lorries?
I'm hoping you can also answer my other question so I don't have to assume what message you think lorry drivers will get.
For example do you think they will particularly avoid filtering down the left of slow moving or stationary lorries?
I would imagine so yes
And I would assume that lorry drivers will take extra care when turning left
it's a very basic vid aimed to send a hard hitting (no pun intended) message to a very basic part of our psyche IMO
So you're expecting the cyclists to particularly avoid something which isn't shown in the video, and the lorry drivers to effectively ignore the "cyclists stay back" tagline and realise it's more their responsibility? I admire your optimism.
I guess you're also not expecting any novice cyclists to mistake that for the lorry overtaking, and then realise that the only way to "be careful" in that situation is not to be on the road?
nah, not really mate
I'm wondering if you're a bit psychotic though
There are two groups to educate here.
1) The truck drivers
2) Cyclists
Changing the behaviour of both will save lives, why focus on just one ?
I sail a lot, rules of the sea are basically power gives way to sail. In your 25ft fibre glass sailing boat it does not make sense to rely on this rule when faced with a 500ft long ****ing enormous tanker doing 20 knots.
As somesome who is nervous in traffic and has ridden in London quite a bit and witnessed a coach crushing a cyclist to death (two things related) whilst there are examples of trucks overtaking cyclists and turning left or turing left without looking (or being able to see a cyclists) in London it is also quite likely that as a truck slows down to turn a cyclist catches it up and ... undertakes or not.
So lets educate all
