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| 156.1 | much TRUST needed to believe cars will NOT hit you. | RAYNAL::OSMAN | and silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feep | Wed Oct 08 1986 11:42 | 13 |
| Yes, it's sad, and also scary.
I ride, but not all that much. When I do ride, I'm on the right side
of the road, and always a bit nervous. To me, there's a huge amount
of TRUST we cyclists must have in order to believe that all those
thousands of cars will successfully navigate by us.
It's almost more trust needed than I actually do have. Perhaps that's why
I don't do more riding.
How do others of you deal with this trust issue ?
/Eric
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| 156.2 | a little prayer and some common sense | NOVA::FISHER | | Fri Oct 24 1986 09:48 | 21 |
| Well, it takes faith and experience. I have been passed very close by some
vehicles. Close enough that I pick my roads more carefully but there are
still many, many cases of close calls. My partner got red automobile paint
on her left handlebar in PA.
Where experience helps is giving you the judgement to claim the lane where
it makes sense so that you don't get squeezed out of your existence.
Example, crossing a bridge or other road where construction has squeezed
things down to one tight lane. Take it in the middle, but hustle, the
cars will be mildly irked but they will respect your right of way.
There are a book and a course on "Effective Cycling" which point out many
such things. Never read it or took the course but have heard smidgens from
time to time and they come to "common sense for the uninitiated."
Prayer comes into play when making a left turn into my street. Cars get
rear-ended there with their brake lights on. What would happen to one lone
cyclist slowing down with his left arm sticking out?
Nothing irks me more than to be doing 2 or 3 miles over the speed limit on
my bike and have cars still try to squeeze by.
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| 156.3 | Justice.... | JACUZI::DESHARNAIS | | Thu Apr 09 1987 14:50 | 8 |
| The April issue of Bicycling magazine did a follow-up on this story.
It seems that the 18 year old person who killed those 4 bicyclists
probably won't even serve any jail time, despite the fact she was
paying more attention to her cassette tapes in the back seat then
on the road. I guess human life isn't worth a heck of a lot in
our society....
Denis
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