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Re: Why cycling in the middle of the lane is not a good idea

"mileburner" <mileburner@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:hai6hs$kji$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>
> "Mr Benn" <nospam@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:hai24r$fe0$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> Watch the video "Cut up by taxi LV04 N**".
>>
>> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/bikecams/
>>
>> The taxi overtakes the cyclist, Ian Jackson (the creator of
>> uk.rec.cycling.moderated) who is cycling in the middle of the lane.
>>
>> After being overtaken, Jackson then confronts the driver when he stops at
>> the junction.
>>
>> Jackson:  "You cut me up"
>> Taxi driver: "You were cycling in the middle of the road!"
>> Jackson: "I'm supposed to, read Cyclecraft!"
>
> Having watched the video, the cyclists position of centre of lane should
> have been enough to indicate to the taxi driver that there is not enough
> room to lane share when approaching the bollard. The taxi driver was
> obviously too stupid to take the hint.

There was plenty of road left for the taxi to pass before reaching the
bollard.  The fact that Jackson was too far over to the right reduced the
space for passing and didn't achieve what he had intended which was to block
the taxi from passing.  It only made matters worse for the cyclist.  Again a
case of someone being the architect of their own misfortune.

Jackson's history of recorded road incidents over just a few weeks is
astounding. What kind of cyclist goes to the trouble of mounting a camera on
the front and rear of his bicycle powered by heavy lead-acid batteries?
It's almost as if he was going out of his way to provoke drivers to cause
incidents that he could record on camera.

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