If you can't go the speed limit, you should get off the road and let cars pass.
Cars feel impatient behind bikes even when travelling the speed limit.
Also, if cars that aren’t able or willing to travel the speed limit are not forced to pull over for faster traffic… you’ve never been stuck behind a truck, old person or tractor?
To be fair, I've had this as a driver too. Everyone has seen the driver in an outside lane cut across two lanes of traffic to take a turn that they were in the wrong lane for.
I would recommend getting a bike and trying it out. It makes you a better driver, because being considerate of other road users is its own reward.
Technically and legally yes, but in practice it's the minimum you are expected to drive.
>I would recommend getting a bike
I do have a bike and I always get off the road to let cars pass when there is one nearby.
I'll take "things that never happened" for two hundred, Alex
No, it's not. Far from it. A speed limit of 70mph on a motorway is not the minimum, just because you, or other vehicles want to exceed it.
A speed limit of 20/30mph in a city center is not a minimum; it's actively dangerous to exceed it, and if you regularly exceed these you are a danger on the road.
A limit of 60mph on a national road is often granted based on road classification rather than the actual road; There are numerous A roads in Scotland that are _not_ safe to travel at 60mph for large stretches of due to poor road camber, poor visibility, narrow lanes, etc.
> I do have a bike and I always get off the road to let cars pass when there is one nearby.
This is a dangerous and unpredictable way to cycle, and can lead to cars overtaking you when it's dangerous to do so/they're not confident to do so, in the same way that an unconfident driver travelling at 40mph on a motorway is dangerous, or a car driving in a hard shoulder to allow overtaking is dangerous.
98% of my driving is not in city centers
>A roads in Scotland that are _not_ safe to travel at 60mph for large stretches of due to poor road camber, poor visibility, narrow lanes, etc.
Slowing down for safety is different than going slow just because you feel like it.
>This is a dangerous and unpredictable way to cycle
It's not more dangerous that being a pedestrian. I'm already off the road before they even get close. I can trust that drivers can stay on the road.
So if you were in London you would never get to the destination?
I don't live in London, but if I were to do what I do where I live I would just push my bike around assuming there are always cars driving near me.
What's your point here? Are you advocating that drivers have no responsibility when it comes to road safety?
For context, everyone else's point is that both drivers and cyclists are struggling to maintain a safe environment because good infrastructure is lacking. But I just can't see your angle here.
A cyclist doing something stupid is unlikely to live long and is mostly a danger to themselves.
well, I survived a few years of daily stupidity on two wheels.