Fun with Traffic Circles

[ArmyJoe]

There's six sequential traffic circles near my house. The neighboring towns put them in to speed up traffic flow, but they also make for a fun time when you have some time to kill or need to test the latest mod.

My wife gave me a GoPro camera last week for my birthday, so I took it for spin. Here's my first video. Nothing fancy, just me having fun. By the way, 1080p takes forever to render on Youtube.

 

[docdoru]

Nice ryde :thumbup: The circles are really speed up the traffic :agree:

 

[DynamoBT]

We have traffic circles around here. But never so many so close together!! That's crazy ridiculous!!!

Nice video!! When you know how to drive the circle it's not so bad. There are just too many drivers around here who have no idea what to do on them. :gaah:

 

[ArmyJoe]

We have traffic circles around here. But never so many so close together!! That's crazy ridiculous!!!

Nice video!! When you know how to drive the circle it's not so bad. There are just too many drivers around here who have no idea what to do on them. :gaah:

That vid only shows three of the six traffic circles. To get to the others, I'd have to go through a school zone and I didn't want to slow down. :doorag:

When the circles went in, we had a lot of accidents. People could not understand the concept of "Yield to traffic in roundabout."

 

[Trickie Dick]

We have about 70 traffic circles here in Carmel.:yikes: They call them round-a-bouts here. You can certainly get Nanny upset around those. :yes:

 

[wyliec]

Were you using setting 5? It looks less than 170 degrees.

 

[SPYDERGUY1]

traffic circles

that is awesome, in this neck of the woods most people have NO IDEA how to navigate them. The best one I have seen is in FORT MCMURRAY Alberta, lanes coming in from all directions and flat cobblestone on the inside of the lanes, very different with no barricades.hyea:

 

[ArmyJoe]

Were you using setting 5? It looks less than 170 degrees.

That was setting 5. Anything less won't produce 1080p.

 

[SpyderAnn01]

I just returned from the birthplace of the roundabouts - Europe. They drove me crazy in some places because the signage left a lot to be desired but I did appreciate them when the fog was so dense you couldn't see 50 yds. ahead. I wasn't worried about someone (or me) running a stop sign that they couldn't see.

 

[Desert Spyder]

Man I got dizzy. I've only been on one traffic circle on the bike (and my life for that matter) in LOng Beach. Scared the hell out of me but the GPS unit was going nuts! On the next right, on the next right, on the next right ... yeah yeah yeah.

 

[boborgera]

What's even more dangerous than Traffic Circles are 4 way stop signs at
intersections, They had to remove them here in Jersey,
Too many 4 car accidentshyea:

 

[chris56]

good quality - like the scenes where you can see : only the shadow of a spyder is faster than a spyder :2thumbs:
here in austria/italy they want to change most of the traffic-lights to this "traffic-circles " - like that for spyder-trainings ..

 

[Lamonster]

Nice video :thumbup:

 

[Bob Denman]

But if you're riding counter-clockwise all of the time, don't you get dizzy? :shocked::roflblack: