>>2024127Im not to sure about the motorcycle thing. I agree with you that the cagers seem to be predominately concerned with damage to their glorified mobility scooter over everything else. But I also am under the impression that the motorist discrimminates on the basis of motorized or not (just like I do when judging people).
I will give an example: 2 lane residential road. Vehicles are parked up on one lane. The other remains free. Cager is coming in the direction that is parked up. Someone is going in the direction that is free. They have the right of way. Oncoming traffic has to wait for the adjacent lane to be free so it can be used to avoud the parked cars. The law does not provide for splitting the free lane.
Now if the vehicle on the free lane is a cripplecage the other cager will wait. This is expected.
If it is a motorcycle, comparable in dimensions to a bicycle, in my experience the cager will wait.
If it is a bicycle the cager will not wait but instead move over into the cyclists lane, thus violafing the right of way and expect the cyclist to make way as needed.
I want to add that it could be argued that cyclists themselves have a part in this as if the roles were reversed often the cyclist can be seen to choose to pass the parked cars, not necessarily on the oncoming lane but on whatever is left free of their lane. The cager might conclude that this is normal and all cyclists choose this situation. But this is not a valid generalisation and also it is a choice the cyclist makes case by case and it is the cyclist risking their physical integrity and jeopardizing their legal situation if they do so. That is not to be compared with the cager risking someone elses healthy while putting themselves in jeopardy.
