Indeed. Being in the right is only of limited consolation when lying in the gutter. Piloting a vehicle (or even being a pedestrian) in a busy urban area is not just about knowing what you should be d… (View Post)

Yes but it's much higher risk. A driver is in charge of a much heavier and faster moving piece of metal. We all drive and/or pilot our bikes in a way that is not totally risk free. Which is fine… (View Post)

That may be so, but even so, the onus isn't really on the cyclist to react should anyone suddenly appear in his lane. And the mini may have been flashed, but the onus is still on the driver of t… (View Post)

I'm definitely on the cyclist's side in that one. I have some sympathy for the mini driver, who probably simply didn't see the cyclist, and it was a genuine accident - but that doesn&#… (View Post)

What if their concerns are, you know, a bit mad? I cycled through a pro-Palestine protest the other day. The view didn't seem to be that we should be concerned about the welfare of Gazan civilia… (View Post)