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Thread: New Qld Bike Laws
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12th April 2014, 09:42 PM #136
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Spoke to Mick's wife today. He was putting his bike up for sale this weekend. He felt it was a bit risky riding to work with winter coming on and having a family to support.
I hate these sort of funerals.
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14th April 2014, 09:49 AM #137I looked in the rear vision mirror and noticed that he had no rear light"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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14th April 2014, 12:24 PM #138
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14th April 2014, 06:22 PM #139
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Funeral is tomorrow . Hope they chuck his fn bike in with him.
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14th April 2014, 08:55 PM #140
When I was riding I used to ride at night a lot. I always had two battery powered flashing tail-lights, just in case one went flat and I was unaware. I had good headlights. When I first started I was riding on the bike paths at night for safety but they have no lighting on them so visibility as poor. I switched to riding on the roads at night both because of the visibility problems and the realization that if I had any kind of an accident on the bike paths I would not be found until the morning.
Unfortunately accidents do happen. RustyNail, hopefully the funeral tomorrow goes as well as those events can.
Cheers
DougI got sick of sitting around doing nothing - so I took up meditation.
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15th April 2014, 09:46 AM #141I switched to riding on the roads at night"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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15th April 2014, 11:00 AM #142
Of course, the cyclists must obey the road rules as well.
This means they must give all other vehicles 1 metre of clearance.
That means the cyclists riding two abreast must ride quite accurately in order to not go within 1 metre of each other whilst remaining within 1.5 metres of each other.
If there is traffic and a cyclist rides with 1 metre are they not breaking the law?
Is this not a good reason for them to have a number plate, the same as cars, so they can be identified if caught on film?"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
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15th April 2014, 11:53 AM #143
Yeah, dog walking, that's what I do, so don't tempt me to give my opinions of some cyclists, they range from good citizens to absolute @$$*$, but on the subject of lights on cycle paths and shared recreation ways I have to give you these two examples. Walking my dogs one night when they warned me a bike was coming so we got off the path and a bloke followed by his son go by with no lights and the youngster winged that he could not see where he was going, so daddy says " Just stay on the white line, you can see that." The other one was a double fatality when an unlicensed mini motorbike and a cycle both riding on a Canberra Path without lights had a head on collision.
RegardsHugh
Enough is enough, more than enough is too much.
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15th April 2014, 12:23 PM #144
I think it goes without saying that anyone riding in the dark without lights is an idiot. If a cyclist is abiding by the road rules, which includes lights after dark, then there should be no issue and no reason to 'get started' on an opinion of them.
Now don't get me started on some dog owners and the ruckus they cause up my street at sparrows fart as they stir up every dog in every yard they pass
And then there's the little deposits they leave. But of course not every dog owner does that, most are responsible and pick it up, right? So it's only the odd one who makes the rest look bad...
There's a guy who owns a couple of huskies and I often see him on the bike track riding his skateboard with the two dogs pulling like mad. I followed him once to clock him, they got up to 28kph. Wish I could train my dogs to do that."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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15th April 2014, 12:26 PM #145This means they must give all other vehicles 1 metre of clearance."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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15th April 2014, 02:52 PM #146
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15th April 2014, 02:56 PM #147
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15th April 2014, 03:04 PM #148
Yes, the 'road rules' encompass all rules that road users must abide by. So there are general rules that apply to all vehicles, and there are rules which apply to specific vehicle types. Car drivers don't need to wear helmets, but it is in the road rules that cyclists and motorcyclists must. There are already many precedents for rules which apply to one type of road user and not to others.
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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15th April 2014, 03:06 PM #149
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15th April 2014, 09:40 PM #150
Just posted on ABC News:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-1...rivers/5392438
Skip to about 60 seconds in.
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