Rules of the road please help

[darrsi]

[quote author=darrsi link=topic=21534.msg247723#msg247723 date=1481786581]
Talking about insurance, does anyone else think that if cyclists are gonna play with the big boys on the road, shouldn't they have insurance as well?

An argument that comes up many a time. Usually from drivers who don't understand that there's a difference between 100kg of cyclist and rider and 1.5 tonnes or more of car (not forgetting that it's estimated that over a million drivers on the road are uninsured).

As two-wheel users ourselves, we should be *encouraging* others to also use two wheels, doing so reduces pollution, reduces congestion, reduces the amount of space given over to car parking, reduces time lost due to ill-health etc.

Oh, and cycles were on the roads *before* the "big boys" too...

Yes, cyclists should have lights, ride responsibly, not jump red lights etc etc, but the ones who do that sort of stuff are not going to bother with getting insurance anyway because they know that there's virtually damn all chance of them getting caught without it in the first place.
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Pedestrians were on the roads/tracks way before cars so that's really a moot point to be honest, times have changed!