I use the time I save driving to exercise when I get to the office.. usually a full 45 minutes before anyone else arrives. Much safer that way and don't have to worry about rain or other external variables..
I have ridden road bikes most of my life for both transportation & recreation. I never felt threatened till maybe the past 5 or 10 years. It is rare that I will get on mine now. Even when I need to ride my MTB on pavement I am very selective on when & wh
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Common sense would tell me that people who drive where there are regular commuters on bikes would be more keen on bikes being present.
The serious or fatal incidents that I've read about lately have been in areas like NY and DC, which blows my theory away
Alsacia has gotten a hand me down road bike and has really taken to it. On one of her first rides, we were on a nearly deserted road in N VT (Rt 14 in Craftsbury for those in the area). A car came up behind us and decided not to overtake on the blind hill. At that moment, the car behind him decided to overtake him and us as fast as he could while giving us the finger and honking. He must have been running low on Twisted Tea or something.
19 killed in Nyc this year so far. Including one hit by a concrete truck.
Looks like she came off the sidewalk too.I believe the concrete truck was #15. The cyclist ran a red light and impacted the side of the concrete truck in the intersection and was subsequently swept under the vehicle.
That's just rude.Many moons ago I was doing a tour in Wyoming. I had been slogging up some endless mountain pass for the last hour without seeing another car, a house, another cyclist, ANYTHING to indicate that I was not the last surviving homo sapien on the planet.
Along comes a car going down the mountain, which I found to be exciting because -- hey, there's at least one other carbon-based bi-pedal life-form left on Earth! Sweet! So I waved.
They flipped me the bird. Seriously. We were going in opposite directions on the most deserted stretch of road I have ever seen and yep, F--- YOU!
That's just rude.
We see folks riding road bikes up Mt Rose Hwy which has no shoulder and is a hell of a climb. I may think to myself, "That's just stupid." But I'd never flip the bird.
We have tools to stop many of these deaths. It's just that no one wants to use them