Posts Tagged ‘Bicycle Safety’

Beauty and the Bike

November 23rd, 2009

Picked this up from one of my favorite sites; Copenhagen cycle Chic.

“Beauty and the Bike is a cultural urban travel project that aims to help urban traffic planners, by looking at one such mobility culture – that of the teenage girl and young woman.”

It looks excellent, and I’m looking forward to seeing the  documentary and book when its released. The DVD and book are due on the 3rd of December, so pop over and place an order for Christmas, and/or lend some support. And if your in the Darlington area, then the premier is on the 9th December at the Darlington Arts Centre (details).

David McCallum Days

November 15th, 2009
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Invisible Man

I believe there are days when you are completely invisible to all other road users… and for me, today was one of them.

While commuting home from work, 2 cars nearly drove head on into me while travelling down a narrow section of road lined with parked cars. I know they didn’t see me as the swerved and braked sharply at the last second, when they realised I was on the road. It wasn’t one car behind another either, it was two separate incidents about 20 seconds apart!

50 yards later, a lorry drove straight out onto a roundabout while I was on it, and I had to stop in the middle of the road to avoid being crushed. Even after he had cleared I had to stop/start twice because the cars behind him just kept on coming, even though I was on the roundabout and had right of way.

Finally, while turning into my street; two blethering pedestrians stepped off the kerb without looking, and I  skidded to a halt to avoid whacking into them. To top it off, they never even turned round… cough cough, until I started swearing at them.

Anyone else experienced the invisible man syndrome?