Food delivery on bikes. We bloody love it. We absolutely love that shit.
But an unfortunate by-product of that means that there’s more cyclists on the roads more frequently, and therefore more chances for riders to come a cropper.
Sydney-based Deliveroo rider Jake Cunningham has posted a nasty-looking video to YouTube, showing him setting off on his usual riding shift. Normally he completes 3 orders per hour, sometimes clocking up to 120km delivering meals each week.
10 minutes into this particular ride, however, Cunningham is shown attempting to lane split past slow-moving traffic when a taxi‘s door opens and knocks him off his bike in what looks like a rather nasty fall.
Cunningham’s bike, which was freshly serviced a mere 2 hours earlier, copped a little bend in the wheel, and Cunningham thankfully appeared unhurt from the whole thing.
However he also found that the current NSW road laws do not protect bike riders from getting car-doored; Surry Hills Police reportedly told Cunningham that if he filed the incident with them he would be the one who wound up with a ticket.
That’s because, under current NSW road law, bicycles are not permitted the same lane filtering allowances that motorbikes are. And, in any event, filtering is only allowed between lanes of slow-moving or stationary cars. NOT between lanes of moving cars and parked cars.
The system. It stinks, I tell ya.
Source: YouTube.
