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Safety inflation
On 4/11/2021 8:04 PM, sms wrote:
On 4/11/2021 4:17 PM, jbeattie wrote: snip As a couple of data points, I've been hit maybe a half-dozen times and never while skulking in the gutter. I was lane center riding the speed of traffic when someone turned in front of me.Â* Nice ride to the hospital in an ambulance.Â* I was doing the same thing when some one pulled out from my right for no reason. I got hooked by a mail truck. I got rear-ended by a bus while in the middle of the f****** lane. People do stupid sh**. Taking positive steps to avoid being hit is something we need to do more on. The cyclist community needs to double-down on education and avoid compulsion. Gentle encouragement for helmets and lights, and setting an example, will have better results than advocating for mandates. Even though nearly everyone here understands that helmets and lights are a good idea; countering the false narrative of people like Frank is important but in a nice way. Passing out lights for free to those without them, whatever the reason someone lacks them, is one productive effort that I've engaged in, using my discretionary money when I was the mayor of my city. Several organizations offer free helmets, at least for children. Note that the "education" alluded to by SMS seems to be teaching people to use add-on gimmicks. There's no mention of teaching people the actual causes of crashes, nor the riding behaviors that minimize crashing. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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