Bunny in the headlights – 13 Movember Fast Group

3 Comments

Riding Fast is cool.

Riding through a Stop Sign and not calling the car closing in on the right  is Not Cool.

Not just my observation from being one of the bikes staring into the front passenger seat while entering onto Guildford Road, but a very sketchy moment a few people have commented on. Interestingly, I was close enough to make out the bloke was listening to 720AM radio,  but hey, a few other riders could have changed the dial for him,

Dusting off the SPR riding etiquette page (which you can find under Club Training/Training Rides) you’ll find this incident lurches through a whole bunch of things in “SPR Ethos” and “Sharing the Road”.  

Chasing a breakaway group does not give an exemption to the road rules, or the courtesy that you’d expect on any ride. Even the breakaway stopped at the Stop Sign……the Fast Group is not the world championship, nor a sanctioned street race.

Even though I share everyone’s dream of taking a sprint win from The Flying Fynn ™ (or even keep up with the group for that matter), it certainly took the lustre off a few peoples ride.

Safety and road manners have to remain the cornerstone of South Perth Rouleurs.

Cheers. Nick.

3 thoughts on “Bunny in the headlights – 13 Movember Fast Group”

  1. Hi Nick, As I went through behind Toby I heard him call “Car 50”. I too repeated the call.

    I did go through the stop sign and didn’t realise it was (no excuse). But there was a call from the front at least that I heard.

    A timely reminder however that we should be more vigilant in obeying the road rules. Thanks for pointing it out.

  2. Good post Nick, particularly after last Tuesday’s well-observed-traffic-signal-moment. I guess it’s even more pertinent with there being seemingly more road users at this time of year (particularly cyclists).

  3. You done well to avoid the “other cyclists” on Tuesday Jarrad. You even managed to call out to warn us behind which was well recieved.

Comments are closed.