Stop line game

On 2005-12-10, Peter McCallum (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

I was riding with my son and his mate today. There's a local street with
lots of stop signs. Generally I just slow right down and have a good
look before proceeding or stopping but I noticed that the boys were just
going straight through, sometimes without a glance in either direction.

So I proposed a game where we tried to stop as close as possible to the
line. It seemed to work and they enjoyed stopping.

This might be a good technique for training young riders to obey stop
signs.

But did they still not look?

Those damn bollards and in particular, the zig-zaggy things you go
through to get over train lines, end up making me concentrate on
negotiating the damn things. Sometimes I have caught myself not even
looking for the presence of trains because I am so busy not falling
over.

And I think bollards are just a stupid idea, full stop -- especially
on non-busy road crossings -- you are gauranteed to hit the zig zaggy
things if you are going along at night and don't know about their
presence, with disasterous consequences. But if there isn't one
there, then you have a damn good chance of not coming to grief at all.

--
TimC

Quoted message said:

Land of the free?

Land of the fee, the US ...
-- Carl Brewer on aus.bicycle

On 2005-12-10, Peter McCallum (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

I was riding with my son and his mate today. There's a local street with
lots of stop signs. Generally I just slow right down and have a good
look before proceeding or stopping but I noticed that the boys were just
going straight through, sometimes without a glance in either direction.

So I proposed a game where we tried to stop as close as possible to the
line. It seemed to work and they enjoyed stopping.

This might be a good technique for training young riders to obey stop
signs.

But did they still not look?

Those damn bollards and in particular, the zig-zaggy things you go
through to get over train lines, end up making me concentrate on
negotiating the damn things. Sometimes I have caught myself not even
looking for the presence of trains because I am so busy not falling
over.

And I think bollards are just a stupid idea, full stop -- especially
on non-busy road crossings -- you are gauranteed to hit the zig zaggy
things if you are going along at night and don't know about their
presence, with disasterous consequences. But if there isn't one
there, then you have a damn good chance of not coming to grief at all.

--
TimC

Quoted message said:

Land of the free?

Land of the fee, the US ...
-- Carl Brewer on aus.bicycle

TimC said:

Quoted message said:

Land of the free?

Land of the fee, the US ...
-- Carl Brewer on aus.bicycle

oy!

TimC said:

Quoted message said:

Land of the free?

Land of the fee, the US ...
-- Carl Brewer on aus.bicycle

oy!

Bleve said:

oy!

"We gonna rock down to
electric avenooo,
an then we take ee high-a..."

--
Frank
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Quoted message said:

I was riding with my son and his mate today. There's a local street with
lots of stop signs. Generally I just slow right down and have a good
look before proceeding or stopping but I noticed that the boys were just
going straight through, sometimes without a glance in either direction.

So I proposed a game where we tried to stop as close as possible to the
line. It seemed to work and they enjoyed stopping.

This might be a good technique for training young riders to obey stop
signs.

Peter

--
Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

That might work - good tip. I had trouble trying to get my partner's boy to
check for traffic when crossing intersections. He'd just barrel straight
through. One evening we were riding back from the shop when a car
smackedinto a lamp post about 10m in front of him for no raseon we could
discern (thankfully nobody hurt). It shook the boy up quite badly - he was
very pale. Since then he still goes through intersections quickly but ALWAYS
checks for traffic in all directions and covers his brakes.

I don't know that I'd advocate arranging a car crash as a training exercise
though... :-)

Cheers,

Frank