When I drove to Margaret River a few months ago I was driving along the road when a few cars suddenly started flashing at me!?
My parents were with me at the time and I even stopped and got out the car to have a look, I thought something was wrong with the car! I was a few hundred yards up the road that I noticed a hidden speed camera!! How kind of the drivers to warn me in advance!
Got flashed at again today, and further up the road was a hidden speed camera. Truly sporting I feel!

There was a guy in the US arrested a while back for flashing his lights so as to warn other motorists of speed cameras. He just fought his case and won - on the grounds that it was his own personal right to communicate with others how he wished, and what messages to give them!!

I have witnessed that here, the UK, France and the US. It does help a lot. Here there is such a high chance of being trapped that I only go 10 k over as any higher the fines start to get very bad. Touch wood I still have no convictions.

is that a good or bad thing? I mean speeding cameras are partly designed to reduce the incidence of speeding and accidents. If drivers forewarn other drivers of speeding cameras I think that tends to encourage some drivers to continue to speed. As an avid cyclist living in australia there is already too many reckless petrol heads in this country as is.

Do any cyclists respect the Highway Code?

Well if only I could reach the speed limit with all the traffic on my commute. I would never cycle in Sydney as the locals seem to have an awareness of a kangaroo looking at headlights.

For years I've struggled to find the page in the Highway Code that allows cyclists to scratch the side of a car as the weave in and out to get to the front of a queue, or allows them to creep through red lights, or to cut straight across mini roundabouts, or to hold up a queue of traffic at the lights because they've gathered 'en masse' at the front and can't pull away at a decent speed because they're all bumping in to each other!

And there is definitely no page that says you have to wear those stupid lycra shorts and shirts. GET OFF AND WALK!!!

Steve. (Rant over)

Funny cos I never found in the highway code where it says that motorists can jump red lights, drive without lights at night, drive with full fog lights in broad daylight, drive without MOT, insurance, or licence, break the speed limit, overtake in no overtaking zones, drive without courtesy to other road users, drive whilst under the influence of alcohol, drugs or whilst using a mobile phone, and take unneccesary risks with other people's lives.

I've also often wondered why motorists insist on driving so close to cyclists that they actually brush them with their wing mirrors, and then complain that their cars get scratched.

I don't think you can tar all cyclists with the same brush, just like you can't tar all motorists with the same brush.

By the way, my cycle to work would be quicker if I didn't get held up by cars. Go figure.

I know, that one baffles me as well!

But it still doesn't explain the Lycra!

did not see too many cyclists in the queue at the post office last time i was shelling out nearly £200 for road tax.

Yet they still want more space on the roads our road tax pays for!

And for what.......to wear Lycra!

Steve

I'm a cyclist and I pay 'road tax'. (Doesn't really take too much working out does it.)

Of course the number of non-motoring cyclists (who therefore don't pay road tax) is far outweiged by the number of motorists who evade road tax every year. In 2002 in the UK over 800,00 motorists avoided paying road tax - £200m - how about having a dig at these people, eh?

Incidentally, the roads are funded by all tax payers - not just motorists. Your 'road tax' is actually a vehicle excise duty - it is a licence to use a vehicle on a public road, but the money to fund the upkeep and development of roads does not come from VED - it comes from the public purse - tax payers money, motorists and non-motorists alike.

As regards the lycra, all I'll ask you is why the England rugby team aren't playing in jeans and home-knitted pullovers tonight?

Don't worry, they'll probably put them back on after they win!

Steve

Hiddenpaw - great response to the ignorant rubbish from Stevie and Welshboy. steve - bit insecure about people wearing lycra are we? - that's your issue mate - probably a childhood thing. If you're capable of thinking about it for a second or two it might occur to that lycra is quite a functional material for road cyclists.

Yes, it gives us motorists something to laugh at in traffic jams!!

Steve