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AG: They are aiming to miss
A beginning cyclist often forgets that every driver on the road is trying to avoid running over pedestrians and bike riders. The vast majority of drivers are nice people who get in your way only when they try to help, and the vast majority of the people who want cyclists off the road want them off because they want to "protect" them. Yes, there are psychopaths out there -- with around two hundred million drivers in the same nation I'm in, some of them *have* to be psychopaths. But even people who hate bicycles and fantasize about seeing the blood of the riders splashed over the pavement are keenly aware that the driver who splashes the blood is going to have a lot of paperwork to fill out. The psychopath will settle for hoping someone else kills you. So everyone except the guy who probably wrapped himself around a tree ten miles back is trying to avoid killing you. MAKE IT EASY FOR THEM! Ride where you can be seen, signal your turns, follow the rules of the road, and generally be predictable and visible. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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