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On 2008-02-29 18:48:31, fatreg wrote:
I always always wear headphones on my bike, as it heightens my sense of vision and smell, if a car is going to get your from behind it's gonna get you no matter what, but when your field of vision is about 270degs you spend a lot of time looking about and see what's about, cars, trucks, motorbikes, dogs etc
Can you please clarify what you mean here (out of interest), you say you listen to music whilst cycling?
I started doing this again recently, stopped since I hit a jogger on a cycle path at 630am on my paper round, she was fine, she actually ran into me.
I would say listening to music is not very dangerous, what I would not advise it to see cyclists wearing hoodies (with the hood up). As you say, it totally limits your vision.
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Posted: 2008-02-29 18:57:27
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I mean headphones as it listening to music, I'd never have a hoodie on as I wear a helmet...
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Posted: 2008-02-29 18:59:59
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so how does it heighten your senses when you cant hear anything coz youre wearing headphones?
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Posted: 2008-02-29 19:20:18
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@fatreg
i woulda thought it would be useful to have your ears working in tandem with your eyes and sense of smell....?
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Posted: 2008-02-29 20:21:51
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I am a cyclist as well as a car driver. A lot of car drivers do not pay enough attention to cyclists but sometimes cyclists dont help themselves. Many a time have I had to swerve to avoid a cyclist who rides into the road into the path of my car. I have also been hit by a cyclist as a pedestrian crossing a pelican crossing while i had a green light. I have even had a cyclist ride into the back of my car, while I was waiting at a traffic junction, as he was changing the track on his mp3 player. Another thing that annoys me about cyclists is the guys who ride on the road instead of the cycle track that has been made for them, they would get upset if I drove my car on the cycle track.
There are 2 main dangers to cyclists: car drivers and themselves.
Saying all of that it does not takeaway the fact that texting or talking on your phone while driving is dangerous and stupid.
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Posted: 2008-02-29 20:50:21
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On 2008-02-29 19:20:18, gabbyevs wrote:
so how does it heighten your senses when you cant hear anything coz youre wearing headphones?
I'm not deaf when I have my cans in... just can't hear road noise, kids with music too loud in cars, abuse and other such delights, but I can hear sirens, horns and tyre screeches.
@ LesleyAnn..
as above I'm not deaf! just chose to drown out road din.
@ at all, believe when I say your senses heighten, give it a whizz if you don't believe me, put a face mask on so you can see and tell me how much more you listen for things and how much more paranoid you become.. or listen to music thru headphones and tell me you don't look about more...
w=When in an unnatural environment I must add.
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Posted: 2008-02-29 22:25:16
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Cyclists annoy me lol, they just slow everyone else down to their pace and get in the blasted way
Then again, I'm too fat to cycle any long disance so what would I know?
But yes, they can be more of a liability to road users sometimes, mainly because you have to floor it past them to get around them in time, and tends to mean you risk plowing into the car coming the other way if not done fast enough.
And yes, you could say "well then wait until it's clear you plonker!". But easier said than done sometimes. I have to drive down a tight, windy, country road most mornings for a good 80% of the journey, and unless I want to be sitting at 10MPH behind some dipstick on a bike, with a queue of 10 cars behind me getting impatient, then I'm going to floor it past them at some point down that road. Obviously blind corners of course not, but it's hard to judge sometimes, especially when the idiot the otherway isn't looking and it in the middle of the road...
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Posted: 2008-02-29 23:38:37
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On 2008-02-29 23:38:37, Daedalus85 wrote:
Cyclists annoy me lol, they just slow everyone else down to their pace and get in the blasted way
Then again, I'm too fat to cycle any long disance so what would I know?
…and unless I want to be sitting at 10MPH behind some dipstick on a bike, with a queue of 10 cars behind me getting impatient, then I'm going to floor it past them at some point down that road.
u know, it's probably not a dipstick, more likely sy keeping fit and thinking of saving himself a few quid on fuel…
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Posted: 2008-03-03 11:59:45
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well well! i was totally wrong about this.... i did think, it was too light (4 years in prision).... but a cyclist going through a red light! ...... seriously, they broke the law exactlky the same..... i feel for the 'silly' car driver tho, they ahve to live with this life changing event and deal with how their life has dramitcally changed over something sooo rediculous!
it would appear both were to blame tho here
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Posted: 2008-03-03 12:25:22
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