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Clive George
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"Francis Burton" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In article <YbGdnX9NUdb26rDVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@plusnet>,
> Clive George <[email protected]> wrote:
>>If I'm walking along a road with no pavement, and a lorry comes the other
>>way, it takes a fraction of a second to stop and position myself as far
>>from
>>the road as possible. With a bike, I have a very real stopping
>>distance/time, would need to find a rather larger place to position
>>myself/the bike, and would also need to consider dismounting as I'd be off
>>the road.
>>
>>Your idea may work slightly better in areas where road edges aren't well
>>defined (though it'll still be more dangerous). But that's not the case
>>here - doing what you suggest simply isn't practicalbe.
>
> How does having the lorry coming up behind you compare? Is it
> better not to see it coming or to glance continually behind?
Better to place yourself in a position of high visibility and not try and
hide from them. Lorry drivers do look where they're going.
(lorries are gert noisy things too - no need to see them to know they're
there).
clive
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> In article <YbGdnX9NUdb26rDVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@plusnet>,
> Clive George <[email protected]> wrote:
>>If I'm walking along a road with no pavement, and a lorry comes the other
>>way, it takes a fraction of a second to stop and position myself as far
>>from
>>the road as possible. With a bike, I have a very real stopping
>>distance/time, would need to find a rather larger place to position
>>myself/the bike, and would also need to consider dismounting as I'd be off
>>the road.
>>
>>Your idea may work slightly better in areas where road edges aren't well
>>defined (though it'll still be more dangerous). But that's not the case
>>here - doing what you suggest simply isn't practicalbe.
>
> How does having the lorry coming up behind you compare? Is it
> better not to see it coming or to glance continually behind?
Better to place yourself in a position of high visibility and not try and
hide from them. Lorry drivers do look where they're going.
(lorries are gert noisy things too - no need to see them to know they're
there).
clive