Two lorry drivers

Hywel said:

I've always found tractor and truck drivers to be really patient while
I'm tootling around Herefordshire. It's the muppets in minibuses that
really get on my nerves, particularly the [censored] in the knackered old
"JMC" labelled thing that nearly took me out at Symonds Yat a couple of
weeks ago. If it wasn't for those pesky knobbly tyres I'd have caught
him, too.

I'm always amused by Thomas Cook choosing to share the initials of their
package holiday business with the Jupiter Mining Corporation. The picture
would be complete if they painted their charter planes bright red; they're
already full of Lister-esque characters.

The tractor drivers round here are usually insane, sadly.

Regards,

-david

Pete White <[email hidden]> wrote in news:414875d7$0
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In my experience lorry drivers tend to be the most cycle friendly people
on the road.

Over here (Australia) the trucks tend to be rather larger and much longer.
In urban areas the biggies are only allowed two trailers (about 36m long)
and the idea of sharing any sort of road with these guys scared me a bit,
but without fail they've been amongst the most courteous of drivers. Now
the *really* big guys out of town haul 3 trailers (over 50m long), I've
never encountered one on a bike but if I ever enact my dream of cycling
around Australia then maybe I will :-/

Graeme

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The nights drawing in somewhat, Juliette and I have been going for our
constitutional on our hill bikes with our big lights on. Generally
we've been coming home on the shore road which is 'single track road
with passing places'. We've been amused by the number of cars which
have dipped their lights and pulled off into the passing places to wait
for us to come past...

I was pleasantly surprised at how many motorists in Scotland pulled into
passing places to let me pass on my bicycle, in broad daylight with no
headlights on my bike to make them think I was a car.

Yeah, what's with that in Scotland? Are they the most polite drivers
on the planet or what?

Rory said:

Yeah, what's with that in Scotland? Are they the most polite drivers
on the planet or what?

They're on the whole pretty good IME, but as for "most polite on the
planet", that seems a shade optimisitic...

As far as getting noticed adn well treated on a bike, though I've few
complaints about it in Dundee it's just an order of magnitude better in
NL from my brief experiences cycling there. You seem to get given way
to by just about everyone by default even when they have right of way.

Pete.
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As far as getting noticed adn well treated on a bike, though I've few
complaints about it in Dundee it's just an order of magnitude better in
NL from my brief experiences cycling there. You seem to get given way
to by just about everyone by default even when they have right of way.

Pete.

I've seen some near accidents caused by motorists giving way to cyclists
when the motorist had the right of way, especially when the motorist stops
just after a curve in the road or takes his/her foot off the brake,
extinguishing the brake lights. Makes me a bit reluctant to accept/encourage
this particular courtesy.
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"Simon Brooke wrote

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The nights drawing in somewhat, Juliette and I have been going for
our constitutional on our hill bikes with our big lights on.
Generally we've been coming home on the shore road which is 'single
track road with passing places'. We've been amused by the number of
cars which have dipped their lights and pulled off into the passing
places to wait for us to come past...

I was pleasantly surprised at how many motorists in Scotland pulled
into passing places to let me pass on my bicycle, in broad daylight
with no headlights on my bike to make them think I was a car.

Yeah, what's with that in Scotland? Are they the most polite drivers
on the planet or what?

Errr, we actually have single track roads with passing places, so we
know what to do when we're using one? And in places where we have such
roads, we live less frenetic, pressurised lives so we're less hyped up
and stressed?

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Simon Brooke said:

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Yeah, what's with that in Scotland? Are they the most polite drivers
on the planet or what?

Errr, we actually have single track roads with passing places, so we
know what to do when we're using one? And in places where we have such
roads, we live less frenetic, pressurised lives so we're less hyped up
and stressed?

Which means that people in Edinburgh often think you have to wait
until the green's come up on a Pelican crossing before starting
off. Which normally means that pedestrians get to wait extra time.

Grrr.

A

Simon Brooke said:

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Yeah, what's with that in Scotland? Are they the most polite drivers
on the planet or what?

Errr, we actually have single track roads with passing places, so we
know what to do when we're using one? And in places where we have such
roads, we live less frenetic, pressurised lives so we're less hyped up
and stressed?

I have noticed on both Skye and Mull that where the single-track roads
have been upgraded to wide two-lane roads the traffic was as impatient
and frenetic as it is anywhere else. Unfortunately there were no quieter
roads to use as an alternative.

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Errr, we actually have single track roads with passing places, so we
know what to do when we're using one? And in places where we have such
roads, we live less frenetic, pressurised lives so we're less hyped up
and stressed?

Nah. You're just imagining it. There is a world of difference here in
the bustling capital. Just like England in fact!

Jon