Getting training will stop cyclists hitting car doors

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...motorists.html

On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:08:21 -0700 (PDT)
Alycidon wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...motorists.html

I'd have thought anyone who is aware of the dooring zone will tend to
avoid it, not much training needed there. But what does a broken
bridge have to do with it?

On 27/08/2016 16:08, Alycidon wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...motorists.html

Nothing to do with cycling or cyclists.

X-posted to an appropriate NG for informed comment.

On 27/08/2016 16:30, Rob Morley wrote:

On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:08:21 -0700 (PDT)
Alycidon wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...motorists.html

I'd have thought anyone who is aware of the dooring zone will tend to
avoid it, not much training needed there. But what does a broken
bridge have to do with it?

Good question.

And more likely to get a sensible answer in another NG.

On Saturday, 27 August 2016 16:31:33 UTC+1, Rob Morley wrote:
On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:08:21 -0700 (PDT)
Alycidon wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...motorists.html

I'd have thought anyone who is aware of the dooring zone will tend to
avoid it, not much training needed there. But what does a broken
bridge have to do with it?

Highly trained HGV driver hit a bridge - a cyclist with no training misses a car door illegally flung open.

Ergo, no specialist cycle training needed. QED.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...motorists.html

Nothing to do with cycling or cyclists.

Cyclists never get stuck in traffic for hours anyway.

On 28/08/2016 07:37, Bret Cahill wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...motorists.html

Nothing to do with cycling or cyclists.

Cyclists never get stuck in traffic for hours anyway.


They would not be allowed past the Police lines, so IF they were on the
road in question they would have been just as stuck as everyone else.
As the road in question is a Motorway, any cyclists would have been
riding there illegally in any case.

On Sunday, 28 August 2016 07:37:18 UTC+1, Bret Cahill wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...motorists.html

Nothing to do with cycling or cyclists.

Cyclists never get stuck in traffic for hours anyway.

They are allowed to play football though on the freeway.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/...2317795056.jpg

On 28/08/2016 07:37, Bret Cahill wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...motorists.html

Nothing to do with cycling or cyclists.

Cyclists never get stuck in traffic for hours anyway.


Lovely cycling around there too. Virtually desert country lanes. Hills
up to about 150m climbs.

On 27/08/2016 16:47, Alycidon wrote:
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 16:31:33 UTC+1, Rob Morley wrote:
On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:08:21 -0700 (PDT)
Alycidon wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...motorists.html

I'd have thought anyone who is aware of the dooring zone will tend to
avoid it, not much training needed there. But what does a broken
bridge have to do with it?

Highly trained HGV driver hit a bridge - a cyclist with no training misses a car door illegally flung open.

Ergo, no specialist cycle training needed. QED.


Yebut we know that most people who drive professionally are not the
sharpest tools in the box.