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So I've just returned from an excellent long weekend in South West Wales - near Pendine Sands and did a fair amount of single track with high hedges...or perhaps one-and-three-quarters width roads - which I found more tricky.

My temptation with the slightly wider roads was to go perhaps a little too quickly to be able to stop easily in half the distance I could see.

I didn't get caught out (honestly) but thinking back, I might have!

Anyone else suffer from this and any advice?

Hi

Imagine around every bend there is a bale tractor with the tines pointed in your direction. Works for me

Had a few close calls on road like that both on the bike and in the car. Usually locals in dirty 4 x 4s who travel the road every day and normally meet no one.

exportmanuk wrote:Hi

Imagine around every bend there is a bale tractor with the tines pointed in your direction. Works for me

Had a few close calls on road like that both on the bike and in the car. Usually locals in dirty 4 x 4s who travel the road every day and normally meet no one.

I've been grateful a few times the caterham is quite narrow when you meet a local used to looking over hedgelines for oncoming traffic not thinking there might be a whole car /down there/

exportmanuk wrote:Hi

Imagine around every bend there is a bale tractor with the tines pointed in your direction. Works for me

Works for me, except in my case it's a stationary combine!

It also might help to imagine a parent with a pushchair on the inside of the blind bend, just out of sight.

exportmanuk wrote:Hi

Imagine around every bend there is a bale tractor with the tines pointed in your direction. Works for me

Had a few close calls on road like that both on the bike and in the car. Usually locals in dirty 4 x 4s who travel the road every day and normally meet no one.

Yes - nice thought.

And yes the locals are probably the worst

Gareth wrote:It also might help to imagine a parent with a pushchair on the inside of the blind bend, just out of sight.

Interesting thought Gareth...but hopefully there would be enough space for me to squeeze through in a panic slowing/stopping...a car or even a tractor though is a different thing.

Some of the roads are clearly single-track and some with high hedges and are very twisty & hilly - personally I think I handle these fairly well: 2nd gear (or even 1st up hill), really slow until the view opens and with a tight right-hander, even slower.

Just thought...I didn't sound the horn approaching blind corners and I know some people do - in fact I can't remember the last time I used my horn for any reason...what do other here think?

martine wrote:Just thought...I didn't sound the horn approaching blind corners and I know some people do - in fact I can't remember the last time I used my horn for any reason...what do other here think?

Are you driving an EV? Or something nearly silent? If someone hasn't heard my exaust coming (esp in the caterham), a horn warning is unlikely to help.

But what if Gareth's hypothetical parent is deaf?

Day and time of day is an interesting filter round here. Sunday mornings on the little roads of Vale of White Horse you can almost guarantee peletons of lycra puffing along, and the occasional horse or two. I also have a theory that house developers are now giving away free dogs as a marketing incentive: they are everywhere.

Gareth wrote:It also might help to imagine a parent with a pushchair on the inside of the blind bend, just out of sight.

Here is another similar thought

HWC R2 for Pedestrians It may be safer to cross the road before a sharp right hand bend so that on coming traffic has a better chance of seeing you cross back after

Great so just as you arrive apex a left hand bend you find the one and only pedestrian who has read the HWC crossing the road

This was the basis of a question from an examiner a few years back on a NO/LOA test.