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Cyclists, learn how to ride single-file when you're sharing the road with other traffic.
I'm sick of watching bafoons who don't know how to do this. How would you like riding down the road and two cars going side by side yacking at each other run you off the road?
Teach your children to ride with this courtesy too please.
Two abreast is what they call it. I see it too often. I think it's a cyclist's job to know what's coming up from behind and to anticipate how they affect traffic in their lane/direction as well as oncoming traffic as folks swerve left to avoid them.
Location: SF Bay Area (recent MN transplant...go gophers)
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I completely agree...riding single file is very important for keeping up flow of traffic, and therefore creating a safer environment for everyone. I would also recommend not taking the lane for this exact reason, and instead staying completely to the right as I always do...yes, being in the middle might be legal, and yes you might even be going as fast as the speed limit allows, bu-GOD.
JESUS F**K.
THAT FEDEX DRIVER WAS, LIKE, 2 INCHES FROM TURNING ME INTO A HOOD ORNAMENT. I'M PRACTICALLY ON THE CURB, JAGOFF, HOW MUCH ROOM DO YOU NEED.
CHRIST.
*takes deep breaths*
BASTARD.
Anyway, as I was saying, in conclusion I completely agree, cyclists should be using much more careful and responsible tactics on the road. They should develop as much courtesy as drivers have towards them, for the sake of a truly "shared roa---
*gets run over by a Honda Civic backing out of a driveway*
I was taught this courtesy by another bike rider. If "we" follow some of these simple rules of the road, we'll at least get along with some of those folks out on the road.
Granted, there are some dangerous a holes out there who provoke bike riders. Another thread for another day.
I completely agree...riding single file is very important for keeping up flow of traffic, and therefore creating a safer environment for everyone. I would also recommend not taking the lane for this exact reason, and instead staying completely to the right as I always do...yes, being in the middle might be legal, and yes you might even be going as fast as the speed limit allows, bu-GOD.
Horrible advice. That only encourages drivers to occupy the same lane and try to squeeze by you. And in many instances you are in a sense hiding and not as visible.
Horrible advice. That only encourages drivers to occupy the same lane and try to squeeze by you. And in many instances you are in a sense hiding and not as visible.
If you think that advice is unsafe then find a road that you feel it is safe on.
I live in the country and the bicyclists use the roads all the time. There is very little shoulder, windy up and down roads that go for miles. Nothing more maddening than to come a round a corner and be facing a car head on way over in your lane because two bicyclist are in the middle of the road.
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