Sometimes when I’m riding I feel like I have a certain superhero power. Which turns out isn’t all that super. Because I’m not made of steel. And even if I could find a use for this superpower… …it still wouldn’t solve anything. Invisibility is dangerous. I want drivers to see me, I want their attention. […]
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You’ve just parked, turned off your car, and given a sigh of relief that you’re no longer stuck in traffic. You reach for your things, kick open your door and CRASH! Okay, so you didn’t “door” a cyclist. But you very well could have! Just because you stopped driving doesn’t mean you can stop looking. Dooring […]
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Whenever a person first discovers I bike, they reply with a story. And it’s always the same story. “I was driving down [insert any road name] when all of the sudden I saw a cyclist in the MIDDLE OF THE ROAD!” Inevitably it always ends with them saying they “just tapped on their horn” or […]
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Every bike commuter knows is that safety is a complicated issue. They face it every day. However, some safety campaigns focus entirely on helmets. But that means there’s been a crash. What if it could have been prevented? Wouldn’t that be safer? There’s many points along the way where an individual, a community, and a city, […]
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It’s not good to honk at a cyclist because, well, it’s startlingly loud: I can understand the need to communicate, but horns don’t do the trick. But even when some folks use their words, they don’t really do much better… So when find myself the target of horns or yells, I simply don’t respond. They’re […]
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