I don't know how to do the quote bit on here so all I can do is paste & copy this from CTCREP.
"He says a rider was riding down the middle of his side of the road ignoring an Ambulance that wanted to get past. Could there be a reason for this? First let’s take the middle of the road bit. The Highway Code says “Leave plenty of room when passing parked vehicles and watch out for doors being opened or pedestrians stepping into your path”. Is it possible the cyclist was simply following the Highway Code?"
The incident I mentioned is in a place that you did not know the location of! I will now tell you CTCREP and see if you change your view of this cyclist.
As you travel to Stockport from Marple you go past 17 windows, the road has double white lines (do you know what they mean?), the road slopes slightly and then there is a sharp left hand bend opposite the entrance to the farm down below on the right. The cyclist rode right from the location where Marple Old road enters the main road in the middle of the road until past the left end bend as previously mentioned, it must have taken the Ambulance at least 5 minutes to get past him, why could he not have stopped, got off his bike, stood by the side of the road and let the ambulance past? The ambulance would have passed him very slowly. Somebody could/may have died during that time.
By the way CTREP the Marple Old road I mentioned is a 'cycle path/lane' for cyclists to use to prevent them having to ride dangeriously round those bends with the double white lines, did you know that? Obviously this cyclist didn't know it or didn't care, I would imagine that a good cyclist (do they exist?), would study any area that they were going to cycle in to find out where cycle paths/lanes etc are located.
If I were riding a bike, and I have done so in the past and taken my test, I would make sure I looked behind me before pulling out even if it meant I had to stop.I am not stupid enough to risk my life pulling out in into the path of a vehicle hoping that if one was there he would stop. Motorcyclists check behind them before overtaking anything why can't cyclists?
I would not ride a bike anymore as I consider my life and my familes life worth more than saving a few £'s each week by cycling to work. If I wanted to do it for exercise then I would use one of the many cycle ways provided for this, i.e. Middlewood Way, I see many cyclists at weekend and during the week unloading their bikes off their cars and riding down MW. They I do not hate because they are not on the road but I do wish they would have a bell on their bikes and use it to warn pedestrians that they are right up your backside.
CTREP - You have no idea what job I do so don't start trying to tell me what I know about the Highway Code, cameras at lights etc.
As for your remark about a cyclist being deaf, if he was and rode a bike then what a dangerous idiot he would be, not only risking his life but endagering others.
CRTREP - as for you mentioning Pakistanis, I spent 10 months working over there and I am not racist against any other race on the planet, except Saudi Arabians.
By the way CRTREP, if you think I could be jealous of a communting cyclist being quicker over a journey than congestion enraged motorists then you are a very sad person indeed who needs to get themselves some sort of life before it is too late and you get knocked off your bike by a motorist. Having spent 8 years travelling as a sardine on a train into Manchester, I now sit in my car in a traffic jam listening to my music with the temperature at what I want it quite happy. You see I allow time for sitting in a traffic jam on my way to work.
I am a very good driver who looks out for cyclists in my mirrors bacause if I treat them as idiots then I watch out for the many dangerous mistakes that I know they will do.
Appoligies to other people for the length of this post but as I said cyclists think they are somebody special and they are not.
