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Old May 22nd 15, 12:26 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
TMS320
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Default Cyclist dies on unroadworthy wreck.


"JNugent" wrote in message
On 22/05/2015 00:01, TMS320 wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in


There are 33,000,000 motorists who regularly pass parked cars, often
closely because of road width, who travel at much faster speeds than
cyclists, but rarely hit opening doors.


How do you know?


Perhaps because he spends a lot of his driving time in urban areas where
exactly those conditions apply?


He claims to represent the other 32,999,999 motorists.

What do you think? Think it's a runner?


Not by any stretch.

Cyclists are always whinging that drivers should give them a least a
metre when passing them, but pass parked cars much closer than that.


Perhaps you've never noticed that as roads get faster, lanes get wider.
It has something to do with the requirement to increase space between
vehicles as speed rises.


Yes, but he wasn't talking about high speed routes, was he? He was talking
about urban (probably inner-city) streets and relatively low speeds (eg,
30 mph or less).


Oh dear, you're at it again. It seems my paragraph included enough letters
for you to reorder into "high speed routes". You should have grown out of
needing alphabetti spaghetti.

A stationary car also does not generate as much air turbulence as one
travelling at 30mph plus. You've never noticed the bow wave and wash of
large lorries when you pass them on the motorway?


What does that have to do with the topic?


Plenty. You obviously haven't noticed "the topic" was - "Cyclists are always
whinging that drivers should give them a least a metre when passing them,
but pass parked cars much closer than that."

Putting aside the problem of opening doors (and when nobody is inside a car
there is no possibility of a problem), I have given two reasons why it is
reasonable.


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