I forgot:
7) Stop dangerously tailgating other cars, bikes etc.
Does anyone else have a view on this situation.
Take those old school ginormous rotaries on the Dedham / JP 'parkways' (
like this).
Apparently the generic rule is to move safely to the inside lane until you get close to your exit, then safely move over to the outside lane, then signal for exit from the rotary.
In this example we have possibly four, or at least 3 travel lanes, none of which are indicated. But not nearly enough time to be on the inside lane for the first exit and then switch to the outside lane for the second exit.
Anyway, on a bike I would never try to travel all the way on the inside lane to go more than one exit. I generally stick to the outside lane, trying to be as careful as possible and trying to take the whole lane and then rely on drivers giving me room at each exit.
In this case driver number #1 came from the inside lane, crossed in front of me across all the lanes to the exit, at fairly high speed. And did not see me at all.
After I slammed on the brakes, the woman behind me had to stop suddenly as well, and was then upset that I had stopped in my lane to prevent my own death. Think about how I felt.
I am still not sure how, if I was only going 15m/h she could have been remotely close enough to me that she would have had to quick-stop, except that of course she was busy talking on the phone and probably missed the first second or two to stop.
Anyway, these rotaries are poorly designed, drivers go way too fast through them. Anyone else have an opinion about how a bike should take them.