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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
I cycle regularly. Neal, you are absolutely correct. Protocol and rights be damned--the heavier vehicle always has the right of way. Keeping that in mind will always make you a safe rider.
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Yes, and that's how bike riders could help themselves. I'm sure many do, but very often I come up behind a fellow who is
counting on me to see him. And as a MC rider, that's flirting with disaster. Riding on 2 wheels takes defensive driving to a whole new level; I call it combat riding--it's a fight to the death and I win by not letting them smear me across the tarmac.
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Originally Posted by soopaman2
I do not wish to start a crapstorm, but being a city driver, I kinda hate bicyclists.
They hold laws that protect them more than car drivers, yet do not eat the same dooky-pie, that a driver does for running red lights and stop signs.
They run a stop sign, car plows into them, and local press kills the driver as some maniac. When they were simply obeying laws of the road.
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It's my goal to avoid hitting any bicycle riders, but I agree with you, they should do their part to make it easier not to hit them.