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Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 06:34 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 2,082
Posted By Helmet Head

Humans do not behave in vacuums. The environment...

Humans do not behave in vacuums. The environment they are in largely influences how they behave.

Again, the bike lane stripe is likely to be a significant factor in how and why the bus driver...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 06:06 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 2,082
Posted By Helmet Head

I don't care about fault or blame. I assume most...

I don't care about fault or blame. I assume most people would rather avoid a crash if they could.

I care about causes of crashes in order to understand how to avoid them.
But I'm not absolving...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-31-08, 05:46 PM
Replies: 99
Views: 3,819
Posted By Helmet Head

Uh, the topic of this subforum is Vehicular...

Uh, the topic of this subforum is Vehicular cycling.
The only academic/theoretical discussions here are threads like this one.
Pretty much everything else is practical.
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 05:42 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 2,082
Posted By Helmet Head

No, it's not the road's fault. But the...

No, it's not the road's fault.
But the particular design (routing cyclists to the right of a buses turning right into a bus stop) is a contributing factor.
A lot has to happen before these design...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-31-08, 05:06 PM
Replies: 99
Views: 3,819
Posted By Helmet Head

Old topic. Search for "adaptive cycling". ...

Old topic. Search for "adaptive cycling".

There are various methods to ride on the road, and only some of those are consistent with the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles. I think it's...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 04:36 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 2,082
Posted By Helmet Head

Ah, well, this is then yet another classic...

Ah, well, this is then yet another classic example of how the bike lane stripe causes motorists to be less likely to notice cyclists riding there, and how bike lanes encourage bicyclists to pass on...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 04:07 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 1,529
Posted By Helmet Head

I think it's ambiguous and, frankly, I would like...

I think it's ambiguous and, frankly, I would like to see more cops giving out tickets for making turns like this alongside cars, because they are careless.
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-31-08, 03:47 PM
Replies: 214
Views: 8,667
Posted By Helmet Head

The vehicular rules of the road do not require a...

The vehicular rules of the road do not require a cyclist to claim narrow high speed roads, Bek, nor is playing in "road sneak" mode in violation of the rules of the road.

"It does not require...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 02:53 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

Well, you're only 2' wide, so as long as the cars...

Well, you're only 2' wide, so as long as the cars were not passing the trucks parked by less than 3' of clearance you'd have enough room to dodge even without having to stop in between trucks, in the...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 02:42 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

We see examples, but relative to the number of...

We see examples, but relative to the number of miles driven they are extremely rare.

And in each example, almost without exception, at least one is violating the basic rules, and neither is...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-31-08, 02:32 PM
Replies: 214
Views: 8,667
Posted By Helmet Head

It does not require great cycling speed to be...

It does not require great cycling speed to be able to operate according to the rules of the road.
[/quote]
Well, that is something of a blanket statement. Noting that we have elsewhere debated at...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 02:07 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

It's very interesting how resistant so many...

It's very interesting how resistant so many cyclists are to the idea that it is safe and reasonable to ride a bike in traffic in accordance with the vehicular rules of the road, and, it just works. ...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 02:02 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

You have it backwards. You're so hung up on what...

You have it backwards. You're so hung up on what you think is the big picture - speed differential - that you can't see the wide and varied solutions that depend on the details in each situation.
...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 01:34 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 2,082
Posted By Helmet Head

When you say the "bus made a sudden turn onto our...

When you say the "bus made a sudden turn onto our lane" do you mean


bus was in adjacent traffic lane and suddenly merged into bike lane to get to bus stop
bus was in outside lane (no bike...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 01:24 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

You're funny. You contend that it's not...

You're funny. You contend that it's not important to discern between all the types of situations, and then immediately provide an example of why we do have to discern all the types of situations. ...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 01:03 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,333
Posted By Helmet Head

But what's interesting about this is that you are...

But what's interesting about this is that you are expressing your frustrations that I think are typical of cyclists, and based on some incorrect conceptions about what our rights and responsibilities...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 12:17 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

If I'm in the middle lane surrounded by faster...

If I'm in the middle lane surrounded by faster vehicles I would be signaling left and riding biased left. It's hard to imagine that someone in that lane behind me would keep coming at top speed, but...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 11:46 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 4,656
Posted By Helmet Head

Right. The market price for gas around here...

Right.

The market price for gas around here is about $3.50/gallon now.
If the oil corporations have as much greed and control as everyone says, the question is begged: why wasn't gas $3.50 a year...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 11:42 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

This much is consistent with what I've been...

This much is consistent with what I've been posting here for years.

This is from 2005:


Excuse me?
What I recognize is who cyclists have the ability to control in terms of being responsible...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 11:37 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

Huh? Where have I ever said or even implied that...

Huh? Where have I ever said or even implied that "controlling drivers" is a sure thing?
You're looking for disagreement where there is none.
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 11:34 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

Exactly. And yeah, if you see a large...

Exactly.

And yeah, if you see a large truck barreling at you at full speed, it's time to pay attention, to say the least. Can you see if anyone is behind him? Can you do something to coax him...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-31-08, 11:23 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

I understand that point. But consider the...

I understand that point. But consider the context. Here is what ILTB wrote in response to what I wrote:


Typical HH Out-in-the-California-Sunshine assumption to shoehorn reality to fit his...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-29-08, 11:51 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

Anything is possible, but considering I get very...

Anything is possible, but considering I get very consistent successful results doing this no matter where or when I do it, I seriously doubt that anyone who gets different results is doing the...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-29-08, 11:47 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

This is important to understand. What the video...

This is important to understand. What the video demonstrates is negotiation. Negotiation is when you request the right of way and do not move into their path until they slow to your speed to let...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-29-08, 03:46 AM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

Gene, when are you going to realize that speed...

Gene, when are you going to realize that speed limit has very little to do with how fast people drive on a given road (unless of course a police cruiser is spotted in the vicinity)?
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-29-08, 03:43 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

I'm beginning to think some of you will need to...

I'm beginning to think some of you will need to see these techniques actually demonstrated on every single road in American under every single type of circumstance before you will allow yourselves to...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-29-08, 03:23 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,333
Posted By Helmet Head

Actually, that's fine. If you want to get out of...

Actually, that's fine. If you want to get out of traffic and then back in, that's fine, as long as you are yielding properly when you get back in. I have no problem with that, and actually do it...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 05:13 PM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

Actually, the ambiguity of ROW that exists when...

Actually, the ambiguity of ROW that exists when the stripe is absent also puts more responsibility on the overtaker than exists when ROW is clarified by a stripe. So in that sense the stripe does...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-28-08, 05:02 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,333
Posted By Helmet Head

If you were in the zebra stripes you were in the...

If you were in the zebra stripes you were in the gore not in regular vehicular traffic lanes. You were not acting like a vehicle driver, and so should not have expected to be treated like one. In...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 04:54 PM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

Being ill informed is a relatively insignificant...

Being ill informed is a relatively insignificant factor. The significant factor is that merging into a narrow stripe-demarcated space is behavior that is inconsistent with what drivers are otherwise...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-28-08, 04:14 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

I thought only bike lane stripes were typically...

I thought only bike lane stripes were typically painted 6", and shoulder stripes were 4".

I really like the riding arterials video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1C3qqhW6Aw

and the...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 03:30 PM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

And your point is what? Are you suggesting that...

And your point is what? Are you suggesting that because you've witnessed wide turns happen at all intersections that right turners are just as likely to make wide sweeping turns at intersections...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 03:10 PM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

These are not unrelated issues. I'm...

These are not unrelated issues.

I'm convinced the bike lane stripe makes it more likely that the motorists will not pay attention to the particular fellow road users near the edge of the road,...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 02:02 PM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

Bravisimo! Man, that was funny Al. It's...

Bravisimo!


Man, that was funny Al. It's really brilliant how you pictured what I wrote and realized it evoked the Italian flag!

On that note, have a great weekend!
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 01:57 PM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

Well, the lane crowd likes colored pavement. How...

Well, the lane crowd likes colored pavement. How about adding, say, green stones to the left biased 11' of pavement in the 15' wide lane, and red stones to the right biased 11' of pavement, which...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 01:16 PM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

I understood that. I pictured it and that's what...

I understood that. I pictured it and that's what gave me the idea I described above. Take what you described, then remove the dotted stripe, make that mini-RTOL arrow into a standard RTOL arrow,...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 01:10 PM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

Huh. How about ending (not just dotting, Gene)...

Huh. How about ending (not just dotting, Gene) the bike lane stripe and placing a straight arrow/chevron biased center-left in the straight-or-right wide lane (it has to be wide because right now it...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 12:50 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 4,363
Posted By Helmet Head

So what? Reason and logic does not always...

So what? Reason and logic does not always prevail. This should not be news to you or anyone else.

But efforts based in reason and logic are more likely to prevail in the long run than are other...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 12:46 PM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

Oh, please. If you pay much attention at all to...

Oh, please. If you pay much attention at all to driver behavior in and around San Diego you know a dotted stripe inhibits proper merging into the too-narrow-for-a-car space it demarcates by...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 11:54 AM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

It is for me, when I need them to slow down (like...

It is for me, when I need them to slow down (like for an intersection approach, merge approach, or for a left turn). Then I adjust my behavior so that it causes them to slow down.

But I have no...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 11:45 AM
Replies: 214
Views: 8,667
Posted By Helmet Head

Indeed, there is a lot you can do when you're not...

Indeed, there is a lot you can do when you're not paying to meddle in and police the affairs of everyone else in the world.
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-28-08, 10:53 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 6,858
Posted By Helmet Head

That's because when it's all easy even "the most...

That's because when it's all easy even "the most difficult part" is not very difficult.
The point is that if motorists hesitate at yielding ROW at all, it's more likely to be at the first step, when...
Forum: Advocacy & Safety
03-28-08, 10:49 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 4,656
Posted By Helmet Head

In what way is this not a blatant violation of...

In what way is this not a blatant violation of the respectfulness guideline?
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 10:45 AM
Replies: 214
Views: 8,667
Posted By Helmet Head

Unless I'm on a family recreational ride, I too...

Unless I'm on a family recreational ride, I too avoid paths that take longer to get somewhere.

But we have some bike paths that are transportational for which alternative routes on streets are...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 10:41 AM
Replies: 214
Views: 8,667
Posted By Helmet Head

That wasn't the question [/quote] Pardon me: ...

That wasn't the question
[/quote]
Pardon me:


:rolleyes:
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 10:34 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 4,363
Posted By Helmet Head

Since most adults don't care about the issue of...

Since most adults don't care about the issue of cyclists rights, how are you going to get them motivated to learn it? It's hard enough to get cyclists interested in cyclist rights.

Besides, the...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 10:24 AM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

Slower traffic keeps right is a fundamental...

Slower traffic keeps right is a fundamental vehicular rule of the road and it's a good one.
It's relevant to cycling on a 35 mph just as much as it applies on a 55 mph, so I don't understand why...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 10:21 AM
Replies: 687
Views: 19,597
Posted By Helmet Head

:beer: The experience you describe is very...

:beer:

The experience you describe is very typical.

This is exactly why I think we need to focus on existing "experienced" riders, like your group cyclists (and, presumably, many of the members...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 10:03 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 4,363
Posted By Helmet Head

Countless reasonable assumptions have to be made...

Countless reasonable assumptions have to be made to understand the meaning of anything, including a scientific study.

Most adults do seem to be unsure if not clueless on the issue of cyclist legal...
Forum: Vehicular Cycling (VC)
03-28-08, 09:56 AM
Replies: 214
Views: 8,667
Posted By Helmet Head

Sure. If the space and resources are available,...

Sure. If the space and resources are available, of course (assuming the infrastructure consists of well designed bike roadways with reasonably safe intersections with vehicular roads, and doesn't...
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