Pinch Points T950PEW

A couple people trying to overtake a pinch points.

With the first one, I moved out, signalled to wait and pointed at the pinch point.

Second one, 4x4 comes along side my back wheel quite close.

Am I just being fussy about the amount of space I want and dislike of being overtaken between road furniture?

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Pinch
• Points
• T950PEW

[SheffieldTiger]

Do you realise that on the basis of losing 2 seconds per day to a cyclist, based on a 5-day week, 47 weeks per year (allowing 5 for holidays), on a working life of 47 years from 18-65, that's almost 6 hours lost to cyclists taking primary through pinch points.

At minimum wage that's about long enough for 2 month's "road tax"

You just stole 2 months road tax money off those nice young lads, no wonder they were a little ticked off at you! ;-)

[thomase1]

I think you probably wasted more time working that out :D :P

[drsquirrel0]

Typical really.

Someone asked me for an example, and you posted this one right now, thanks :p

Do you remember whom posted the one where the driver said the cyclists almost made them crash into the concrete?

[thomase1]

@drsquirrel0 Glad I can help...and no idea on the other part....maybe ask on CycleChat?

[carywarrior]

I always go into the middle of the lane at pinch points, lucky here in Lancashire they dont try to overtake, you get the odd one yes thats about it.

[drsquirrel0]

You don't add in that being 2 seconds late doesn't lose them 2 seconds of pay ;)

And that it can be made up.

And that because they drive, they need to leave much earlier just in case of traffic, so probably arrive to work 5-10 minutes early most days.

I know you are joking, so am I :p

At least when I cycle, I pretty much know howlong it will take (and no longer have to spend 5-10 minutes deicing the car, win).

[drsquirrel0]

ta, i've found it.

For reference 3HzTl8A4BqY

I'm not going to refer to it any more where I was going to, getting bored of the whiner B0A_VcZwGaE

[downfader2]

Magnatom has one where a driver nearly runs into a traffic island

[lsmike]

Think that was magnatom.

[lsmike]

I believe a traffic engineer once admitted that pinch points are used by them together with cyclists as mobile traffic calming measures.

[gordonthegopher666]

Pinch points are a real pain in the bum. I think all traffic engineers should be forced to cycle along any roads they've redesigned. That'll open their eyes a bit

[jonredhornet]

Na you're not being too fussy, I suspect most cyclists on CC would do similar. pinch points are a real pain for us, and car drivers sometimes fail to see the danger so the point has to be explained through defensive riding.