Flinders wrote:I was, I thought, fairly clear that I was talking about legal responsibility rather than self-preservation*. If people persist in muddling the two, cyclists will continue to be blamed when other people break the law and kill/maim them.
No muddling by me.
But we live in a lunatic asylum,where wrong has become right and there is little enforcement of the law,mainly because policing the roads has become politicised to such an extent a driver has to kill some one deliberately to attract any kind of effective penalty
You can't ever be sure 100% some numpty won't turn left across you.
If you treat them all as potential idiotic loonies you won't go wrong,once you begin trusting anyone else on the road you're sunk.
But on your advice, at some junctions cyclists would be stuck permanently to the left of all vehicles and never get across a junction at all, and we'd have to stop in the road whenever we were overtaken near a junction.
I don't see how you come to that conclusion I almost always filter to the front of any line of stationary traffic by using the right side unless there's a chance of a vehicle turning right.
*and that I anticipated bad driving accordingly[/quote]