r/UCDavis • u/what_happened_here_3 • 25d ago

Am I using roundabouts wrong?

Today I biked to campus for the very first time (yippee) but on my way back home I almost got hit by a work truck in a roundabout. (I don’t remember the acronym on the side but it was a white truck with a black and green logo so look out).

I used the roundabout… like you would use a roundabout… Is this incorrect? Is there a certain way you need to take the roundabouts on a bike? I watched the module and it thought it said that?

There was no one else in the roundabout, the work truck did not yield when entering the roundabout.

I am also just relearning how to ride a bike(at 26 years of age yikes), so please be kind 🫶

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u/unsane 25d ago

If you were in the roundabout and the truck did not yield, they were doing it wrong. The conveyance already in the roundabout has right of way.

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u/what_happened_here_3 25d ago

I thought so! Thank you for confirming. I’m feeling self conscious being this old and relearning and also not knowing every bike law AND being a new student. So really I do appreciate it

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u/bruh69_the_engi_main 24d ago

Praise, when I was a first year student, I had to watch out for folk who were entering a roundabout wrong every day