Ride with or against traffic flow? Which is safer and why?

[Bat]

Wow, can't believe this could be a topic of discussion. I guess next we will discuss if we we should stop at stop streets or robots. Or should we wear helmets or not. What about listening to music while we're at it.. Come let's have some polls on this?

[Lexx]

This Dude loves the Attention.. Werent you hug as a child???

[scotty]

Wow, can't believe this could be a topic of discussion. I guess next we will discuss if we we should stop at stop streets or robots. Or should we wear helmets or not. What about listening to music while we're at it.. Come let's have some polls on this?

Those have been discussed.

[Bat]

 

Those have been discussed.

 

Sorry never read it Scotty. Will go and look it up to read some more entertaining topics when I have nothing to do. lol

[flymango]

Wow, can't believe this could be a topic of discussion. I guess next we will discuss if we we should stop at stop streets or robots. Or should we wear helmets or not. What about listening to music while we're at it.. Come let's have some polls on this?

 

I was just about to post the same thing. I think the poll result speaks for itself.

['Dale]

Where's Slowbee to shut this discussion down?

 

 

[ThePubSA]

This Dude loves the Attention.. Werent you hug as a child???

Na... just touched by a swamp rat

[RastaMan]

I got hit by a cyclist that was riding on the opposite side of the road.

 

I t was on northumbeland, just before rock cottage, I was on the left. Saw him and said he must get out of the way, he did and then he got scared with a car passing by, and sharply turned his bike into mine.

 

So for me its easy keep left, its already hard enough keep left and staying safe, if we have to dodge each other it just makes it even more dangerous.

[Capricorn]

I got hit by a cyclist that was riding on the opposite side of the road.

 

I t was on northumbeland, just before rock cottage, I was on the left. Saw him and said he must get out of the way, he did and then he got scared with a car passing by, and sharply turned his bike into mine.

 

So for me its easy keep left, its already hard enough keep left and staying safe, if we have to dodge each other it just makes it even more dangerous.

 

and that there. is key: this crap of riding in the wrong direction removes convention, and thus predictability. As a generalisation, riding the the WRONG way doesn't work, so why bother to begin with?

And based on this thread and the Op, the only reason left is "I know something no one else does", "it will never happen to me", and lastly "fckyall".

 

carry on. I have a darwin award fer yer. just ignore the fact it looks like a headstone.

[lloydkayak]

Common sense and awareness, not riding everywhere at 40km/h (even though you can) and working out what sections of your route are tight for cars to pass you on will save your bacon WAY more than trying to do something that endangers other cyclists.

 

Ever stopped to think what one of our dodgy road sections are like for the car drivers trying to get passed us? Most drivers I have come across don't try to pass within 1m, but sometimes we endanger ourselves... Choose safer routes? Or walk sections if necessary....

[DJR]

Common sense and awareness, not riding everywhere at 40km/h (even though you can) and working out what sections of your route are tight for cars to pass you on will save your bacon WAY more than trying to do something that endangers other cyclists.

 

Ever stopped to think what one of our dodgy road sections are like for the car drivers trying to get passed us? Most drivers I have come across don't try to pass within 1m, but sometimes we endanger ourselves... Choose safer routes? Or walk sections if necessary....

 

That's the key! Sadly, often there is a severe shortage of those 2 ingredients, even among cyclists.

[MartinPV]

Most cyclists get hit from behind because they are riding on the legally prescribed side of the road. What you are arguing is tantamount to the conclusion that most shark attacks happen in water.