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That cyclist didn't design the road, he was just using it as designed. Your obvious writing skills would be better used by sending a letter to the authority responsible for the road suggesting improvements to the road design. Writing a complaint about one person solves nothing.

Alternatively, they could make that a "no left turn" for HGVs.

Last time I went to West Wittering I sailed from Bosham, landing on the quieter beach on the northern side of East Head spit. I surprised a few nudists in the dunes on the walk to the main beach for an ice cream. Did not get held up by any cyclists 👍😁. The Birdham-straight gets extremely busy in the summer. If the cyclist pulled over, they might struggle to rejoin the flow of traffic. It really gets that bad. A while back I cycled down the canal to the marina. I must have spent 10 mins waiting for a gap in traffic so I could cross the Birdham road.

Pound for pound, Cube are the best value on the road.

All LeCol are now made in China by the look of my last purchase, so I imagine the forever sale plus extra discount I got mine at 70% off, and they are still making a few bob.

@chrisonabike well thats the flipside isn't it. If you behaviour is bad but completely normalised then despite people being part of that group, they massively minimise the danger of that behaviour. Partly through conditioning and partly because they almost certainly exhibit that behaviour themselves and don't want to admit that they are bad drivers or simply lucky not to be on the wrong side of the dock.

Unfortunately its not bollocks, those very same people praise motorcyclists. The trouble is that as a group we get very touchy when anyone points the finger at our behaviour. As illustrated by every single reply to my comment. I stand by my point that if you read it properly simply says we aren't all angels and that some of our number give the Motorons ammunition. The hate towards us is completely out of order but we need to take it on the chin and start acting like responsible adults not children who get straight out of our prams when we get a bit of justified criticism.

@perce Don't go mate, with our Nigel back on the scene we need our esteemed Binface more than ever!

Mrs H has a commute of exactly 12.5km to work, and when she rides I ride with her morning and evening for companionship, exercise and as a mobile soigneur/bodyguard/mechanic before riding back to work from home. When she was first contemplating commuting, during the pandemic, I went scoping out various routes. The one she rides now I did, early one Sunday morning, in a shade over 23 minutes at an average speed of 32.5 km/h (I didn't jump any lights either, though I must admit they were nearly all in my favour). When I ride at weekday rush hour I'm pleased if I make it in under 40 minutes for each leg. This is almost entirely due to car traffic, in which I'm constantly getting enmeshed, yet not once has a car pulled over to let me through or waited to let me out even though I'm quite plainly the faster vehicle and it won't cost them anything to let me go first. At least fifteen minutes lost four times a day every day because car drivers don't have the courtesy to recognise that they're holding me up and pull over, literally about eight full days a year wasted. Arseholes indeed.

@mctrials23 if it's missing a paragraph break before that line that would make more sense. Otherwise if that sentence followed the thought from the last (the stats) logic would imply the meaning was that jurors, magistrates etc - using their greater insight from being motorists themselves - are *correctly* identifying drivers who kill other motorists as taking the mick while those who merely kill cyclists being less blameworthy. Which may be how a fraction of the public does in fact think...