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Should cyclists be made to take a road test?

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    #32
    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    cyclopath2001 wrote: »
    An additional inhibiting factor (to indicating) would be wind or the quality of the road surface and the effect on balance of taking one hand off the handlebars.

    No offence now, but if the bike is too shaky or the wind too strong for you to take one hand of the handlebar to indicate ...then you're going too fast.

    Slow down, and then indicate.


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    #33
    Mickb
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭Mickb


    peasant wrote: »
    Slow down, and then indicate.

    The slower you cycle the more difficult it is to keep the bike in a dead straight line with no swerving. So when cycling really slowly it's more important to have full control of the bike, so both hands on the handle bar.

    MiCk B. :-)


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    #34
    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Then get a tricycle :D

    Then one fella can't indicate when he's going fast, the other when he's going slow ....silly excuses.

    Either learn to cycle your bike competently and safely or walk (or indeed get a tricycle ...or maybe stabilisers??))


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    #35
    cyclopath2001
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭cyclopath2001


    peasant wrote: »
    Either learn to cycle your bike competently and safely or walk (or indeed get a tricycle ...or maybe stabilisers??))
    Would that some motorists took this advice. What silly excuses have drivers for not indicating?

    But, to get back on topic, clearly the thrust of the OP's proposal is that a little education would go a long way. I'm skeptical that tests would improve the situation relative to the things he's complained of as the various tests applied to motorists seem to have limited effect, given the widespread law-breaking I see every day.

    Since children acquire their attitudes from their parents and must often witness irresponsible amber-light breaking, overtaking and speeding, How about applying double penalty points to people who commit RTA offences while having children as passengers?


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    #36
    D_murph
    Registered Users Posts: 773 ✭✭✭D_murph


    cyclopath2001 wrote: »
    It's not well understood that the rule is to stop on amber.

    really? lol i thought it meant to drive faster ;):D


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    #37
    BlackWizard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭BlackWizard


    No it's speed up in anticipation of amber. Then on amber shut your eyes until you are safely through the junction.


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