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Hey mate, thanks a tonne for posting this. You're making life safer for us cyclists by putting out solid and sensible information. I cycle because it's cheap and convenient here in urban Wellington, and it was great back in the Otago countryside as well (awesome views!). I can afford a car, I largely cycle because I find it really fun. No lycra for me though, you can wear regular street clothes, though I wear hardy country attire as a preference. Much love from New Zealand.

many thanks for your vids Reg. got my cross check drive coming up and your videos have really helped me improve my driving standard. hoping to get a first, and if so, will be seriously considering the masters course. would love you to be my examiner, but being from Yorkshire it's a bit unlikely.

Good advice. Always amazes me how many motorists believe they can see around corners!

Thanks for the excellent instructions. As a cyclist I feel the worry that a cyclist feels when a car approaches too close so it is easy to slow early while driving. It is also the cyclists responsibility to be seen. This is very easy with strong daytime red lights that are slow strobe and continuous in back and white strobe in front. Night time lights should be low enough to prevent blooming. This works best on flat straight open roads. Cars start changing lanes for the pass way back. Does not work on winding roads. Cyclists should not ride alone during peak car use hours especially in regions that are hostile or indifferent to cyclists. Also, if you are a driver, put down the phone, you are killing and maiming pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers.

I love your tip about keeping an open mind about learning. I haven't ever felt like I've 'done it' with motorcycling. I always feel like I've got loads to learn still. Even after feeling more confident with a specific technique, without continued practice it can easily atrophy. Keeping each individual skill honed, while building them into a larger system is truly a lifelong pursuit. Which, I dare say, is impossible to be perfect with.

Really enjoyed this one. The very audible exhaust note allowed me to hear how you modulate your right foot. Great insight.

Just came across this excellent vid.. awesome.. top commentary. Top info..

I'm a cyclist and a driver , if I'm driving and there's a group of cyclists making sure nobody can overtake them by blocking the road on purpose it's detestable . I wouldn't do that​ on my bike , only assholes do it .

Alien13 has got you lot figured out and he's not holding back. for any one that watches this video go and watch his videos and learn.

Great video and advice. I have a question, i recently changed to an EV which is very quiet and compared to my previous car (Merc A35) i dont think cyclists notice the presence as much. Ive considered a horn warning just before an overtake or on approach, but feel it could be taken as being aggressive. A normal car would have the engine noise. Have you any recommendations in this situation?

The one thing I would add is that you're almost constantly driving through pastures and have to keep an eye for sheep and lambs especially.

Great series for a back to biking fella. Thank you!

5.09 the ‘I want to go straight ahead signal” was very popular in Germany in the 1930s

Hi Reg. passed my IAM on Thursday with a F1rst. Huge thank you to my observer and to you and your videos. Brilliant combination. Life changer. Thank you!

Here's an advantage you might not have considered: some modern poorly designed PCV's (Volvo B7900) that have automatic gearboxes that auto neutralise, and retarders that snatch and give passengers an uncomfortable ride. I don't work for the bus company anymore so I'm not worried about getting sacked for what I'm about to type: • Some modern buses have software that neutralises the gears at certain low speeds which can takeaway the ability of the driver to precisely and smoothly creep in traffic: just touching the accelerator without actually applying power cancels the auto neutral so you don't have to pulse along the road. • Why do bus drivers jag the brakes rather than apply them progressively? because they can't! Some buses have retarders integrated with the brakes and they are switch activated by the brake pedal before the airbrakes come on which makes it feels like the driver is just an idiot. If you can just touch the accelerator when starting to brake you can smoothly and progressively get the airbrakes on then release the accelerator pedal to activate the retarder when 'you' are ready for it; the result is a nice smooth speed reduction and compliments form your passengers when they get of the bus. • Pulling off from a stand when the modern bus has auto neutralised gives a noticeable jolt so you can reconfigure the bus as a traditional automatic with creep buy putting a little power on with the brake pedal still depressed and then smoothly take the brakes of now that you have forced the bus back into drive. I got a lot of nice smooth driving compliments from my passengers. Nice video Reg!

Thank you for a balanced video with good advice. I really like your opening comment: "We are all out here on the road together it's a shared space and it's everybody's combined responsibility to look after each other and that includes looking after yourself." I'm a pedestrian, a driver and a cyclist.

At 8:10 Years ago Dunlop ran an advertisement with Larry Perkins in a V8 Supercar. The car has snaped into oversteer, not by throttle but just lost traction in the wet and it’s sliding down the camber of the road. Larry teases the steering wheel into the slide and the reefs it the other way hard and quick … I love good tyres on a car!

Ive watched this video twice and still have no idea what yr talking about. Can u add some graphics (with arrows) point out where the exact limit points are on various curves? How do i know what gear to be in various curves? Also have no clue on what you mean by “position of approach” “centerline”.

Great advice! Could we have a UA-cam Shorts version please? 🙏

Absolute bollocks. Why should everyone stay in one lane unless they’re overtaking? So the third lane is only for the people who are overtaking the people who are overtaking? What a load of shite.

Please do a short version of this, it's really good advice and deserves more views

Another way to say this - limit your speed differential. The bike can be doing anything from 5 to 50 Km/h. A nice approach is at about a 15 Km differential - easy to accelerate and overtake, or easy to wipe off the 15K differential and follow at a safe ( considerable) distance. High performance motorcycle drivers know that they have to slow down to pass the cars. In the back streets, why bother to overtake - so many cars do a tyre shredding, dangerous overtake, only to turn off immediately, 1 second ahead of where they would have been if they had just rolled along, comfortably, behind the bike.

Good advice, Reg; however, you have only dealt with a solo cyclist. Let's a have a video with your local cycle club out for their weekend spin.

From a cyclist’s perspective, this is what we generally want from car drivers. Don’t ride us closely when it’s unsafe free to pass, pass with at least a 4ft buffer, don’t drive or park in the bike lane, share the road when bike lanes are not present, and remember that when we cycle on busy roads it’s not because we want to, it’s because infrastructure is limited and we have no other option.

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I think you really nailed it on your principal concept/technique. I'm an avid road cyclist, regular bike commuter, and sports car enthusiast. When I'm driving the same roads I ride, I encounter plenty of cyclists and it's never a problem for me (despite all the complaints I hear from motorists saying how much of a problem bikes are). When I drive I've been accidentally practicing what you describe, the idea that you plan to slow and follow as the default. Cause that's the real killer, people flying up behind a cyclist banking on passing when they have no real idea if it's clear to do so or not. Sure it works out most of the time, but when it doesn't it really doesn't and usually it's the person on the bike will pay for it with their life. Like I instinctively know this well from riding and the worst situations are always when someone tries to force a pass when they shouldn't have been passing at that moment (blind corner, on coming traffic, etc). Especially infuriating when literally seconds after the dangerous pass they made they could have passed totally safely with good visibility etc if they just showed down and waited. This core principle needs to be taught/drilled into everyone who drives! Would make roads a way safer place for everyone!

A large part of the problem is the right wing media spreading their bile. They need to maintain division in our country by any means and they will target any group that they can “other”, be it on racial, socioeconomic or any other grounds. I recall the sad incident of a lady being hit and killed by a cyclist in London, there was media hysteria. 100 cyclists and pedestrians can be killed by motorists without a ripple in the media.

I like the follow attitude. As a cyclist I would move over and stop when safe to allow motorists to pass.

Good courtesy at 11:54 or 11:55 - giving the opposite-side bike that little bit of extra room… helping the car give them all the perfunctory 1.4m of space whilst wandering over the solid line. That car probably barely noticed you were there, but I feel sure the bike definitely saw you do that.

Cyclists are evil.

When I drive, I do exactly as you say. When I cycle, I keep HWC 169 in mind rather than strava times. Unfortunately I am definitely in a minority these days.

Onya mate, like you're style.

Very informative video as always. I don't live in the UK, but I aways learn something useful out of your videos. Thank you so much!!

Very useful tip. In the previous videos, you have already said two interesting sentences: - plan to follow and look to pass, - plan to stop, look to go. This unobtrusive approach of negotiating hazards works also in: - MTB on narrow forest path with occasional walkers and strollers, - congested ski piste, - windsurfing in crowded water. I taught to act in this manner my sons. Thank you.

What you say makes total sense, Consideration from both sides is the ideal thing. On narrow single track roads though, should you be really expected to stay behind them for the duration without them having to pull in at some point and let the larger vehicles pass. I cycle and I do this but have watched loads that don't and are totally oblivious to the tail backs they are causing.

Excellent video and great advice. I always say to people - "Imagine that cyclist is a person on a horse or a slow moving tractor - you wouldn't just pull out and try to get past without slowing down, would you?"

Being a cyclist myself, I would say you're being too cautious with the amount of room you're giving him behind. The first time you overtook him you ended up having to cut back in quicker because the gap between the cyclist and yourself was too far during the overtake. I have no problem with a car travelling 15 or 20ft behind me, and if a cyclist does, they perhaps shouldn't be on a cycle on the road. Great advice overall though, people just need to be patient and sometimes cyclists need to be a little more considerate to motorists.

Thanks Reg, as a driver and a cyclist, I would add that as well as the distance drivers allow when overtaking cyclists, it's also their relative speed that can be very scary. Even if you're 1.5m away, if you overtake at 50 mph, when a cyclist might be riding at 16 mph, it can be frightening! Personally, I avoid labels like 'cyclist' or 'driver' as this is not the problem, we are all people but some are thoughtful about others needs and a few are thoughtless.

Excellent and informative video. Thanks for sharing! In my experience most drivers are respectful of cyclists, but it only takes one bad driver to put someone’s life at risk. If everyone had your mentality that the road is a shared space and that all road users should look out for one another, the world would be better for it. ❤

Excellent!

Great educational video, I'm so glad it turned out to be complete opposite to what I expected, looking at the thumbnail 😊 I have a little suggestion also. From drivers' point of view, in their mind and thinking, why not immediately replace the cyclist with a little old tractor that would always be doing roughly the same speed as the bike. Straight away they have to approach differently, be prepared to slow down more and give more room while overtaking. On most rural roads there just isn't enough room for small tractor, the driver and oncoming traffic. I can't imagine any sane driver getting aggravated because a local farmer is going about his business and trying to run him off the road. Although, I'm sure that also happens..

I live in NE Spain and rarely have any problem at all with cyclists, they are always given plenty of room, dual carriageways a complete lane (obligatory). I find the behaviour of cyclists professional. There are, of course, exceptions but they are rare. If you hold a driving licence it can be sanctioned for any bad behavior on the roads, even if cycling.

Ban cars. Get all these lazy psychopaths out of cars and onto bicycles.

I’ve been riding in the UK for 5 years now and I give the driving population 87% for consideration towards cyclists. I live in the Bedfordshire county area btw.

For me, while I’m cycling, if a driver needs to pass “closely”, it is more comfortable scrolling pass more than bolting pass by millimeters.

"need to instantly get in front" mentality is very dangerous. You have an engine. In no time at all you'll be exactly where you would have been before.

Excellent video. Follow until safe to overtake, pass wide, then squeeze your accelerator and you're back to where you would have been in no time at all. For information, very few cyclists would deliberately put themselves in a dangerous situation to create a video, because they are going to lose to every other vehicle on the road. They're either an absolute nut job, or they're totally unaware that what they are doing is dangerous.

This is very good. I wish there were more videos like this to teach motorists. I am a cyclist, I cycle everywhere and it is my main mode of transport. On really narrow country lanes I am always alert. I will take the position further out in the road for the reasons you mention but if there is a safe place for me to pull in and let the motorist pass safely I will do. Very often I will get a hand up /thank you for doing this. Please could you make a video of the ruling in the Highway Code about a cyclist turning into a side road on the left. I understand that if a pedestrian has started to cross or not looked near the junction, they have right of way. I would appreciate more clarity on this new Highway Code rule please.

Hello Reg. I came upon your videos some weeks ago and am working my way through all of them, in no particular order. I find them to be absolutely enthralling, evoking memories of getting through my IAM test. Since I have acquired a new car in the past three weeks it is, perhaps, ideal that I should have found your videos - to re-awaken the brain cells that have fallen asleep in the past 30 years. Thank you.

When you say "Deal" it sounds like cyclists are somehow something to be punished or penalised in someway. It would be more appropriate to say "accommodate" or "allow for". Is this another example of unconscious bias?