Augh, I know better than that!
Jun. 12th, 2007 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheToday, turning right into a cycle lane, across one lane of unmoving traffic - a car driver nodded to me to go ahead and I went.
Augh!
The young man cycling up inside the car, in the gutter, was almost squashed flat by the trike. He was on a little BMX style thing, the trendy kind boys and men cycle with their knees in front of their chest, so I didn't see him coming - but I would have, if I stuck to my usual rule about not trusting car drivers. I'm just not used to seeing that kind of bike on the road, they're usually on the footpath; bikes on the road are usually easy to see as they are higher than cars.
I found it hard to believe I'd been so stupid, although actually, no-one was hurt. We cycled almost abreast on the shared-use path, my front wheel grazed his rear wheel, no-one fell off, though I immediately stopped (safely!) to make sure everyone was ok. Then he stopped too, and we established that we were all fine, and that was that.
But wow.
Augh!
The young man cycling up inside the car, in the gutter, was almost squashed flat by the trike. He was on a little BMX style thing, the trendy kind boys and men cycle with their knees in front of their chest, so I didn't see him coming - but I would have, if I stuck to my usual rule about not trusting car drivers. I'm just not used to seeing that kind of bike on the road, they're usually on the footpath; bikes on the road are usually easy to see as they are higher than cars.
I found it hard to believe I'd been so stupid, although actually, no-one was hurt. We cycled almost abreast on the shared-use path, my front wheel grazed his rear wheel, no-one fell off, though I immediately stopped (safely!) to make sure everyone was ok. Then he stopped too, and we established that we were all fine, and that was that.
But wow.