Amazon Stops Selling Illegal eMotos in CA

[PedalUma]

This is scary. I am so glad I didn't tell the kid how to jailbreak his bike then let him go off without a helmet. That would have been easier. He said that he would just go a few hundred yards on a bike path to a friend's house to pick up a helmet, but I insisted; No helmet, no bike. Take my helmet, here is how to tighten it. That helmet has a light on top that looks to drivers like a camera. It helps them behave.

 

[PedalUma]

That thing in the recent SirRonster video about the number one cause of bike deaths being 'cyclist on wrong side of the road.' It could be a highly misleading category, that maybe should be broken into three categories or more. What if a UPS truck is illegally double parked? You need to cross the street, when you enter a driveway or make any left, you are on the 'wrong side'. But by never making a left turn you can't function. Sometimes there is a bunch of glass in the road from a car littering with a distracted driver texting. It seems mostly a way to blame the cyclist. There are perfectly normal and legitimate reasons to be on the 'wrong side.' Cars are the killers.

 

[LandoftheGiants]

Cars are the enemy! I don't encounter all that many on my typical rides, even in the daytime. About one every 2~5 minutes on average out on the rural backroads. I have a mirror, watch them like hawks, and ALWAYS move right over to the edge. I often slow down and go onto the verge, gravel or grass. I'm training them, making them feel guilty for riding up behind me. They are all locals coming down from dead-end roads and over time they will recognize me as that guy who "Gets out of our way" The implication is that they are dangerous, no one likes to feel they are dangerous behind the wheel and most cross way over to the other side of the road

At the end of the day it's all about being "seen". As for the slowing down being an imposition for me, quite the opposite. It's good exercise speeding up again, and going offroad a bit is good practice for the day when I really need to go offroad, like when the huge semi trailers come down from the egg farm. I'm not one of these guys.

 

[DDBB]

There's a section of a busy state road I have to ride for about a quarter mile to get to the good, light traffic roads. I ride into the traffic on that stretch because the shoulder of the road is at least twice as wide as it is on the other side. What I'm doing there is proably illegal but it gives me more separation from traffic. Also on that stretch there are two lanes on the side I ride and only one on the other. It floors me when there's just one car coming, he could easily move to the outside lane to give me more room but nope, he stays on the inside lane. I often ride off the shoulder in the gravel in just such cases but the fear there is the gravel could grab the front wheel and I could fall into the traffic

 

[EMGX]

Group riders like that are idiots, I see this once in a while. I'm sure all of those cyclists drive their cars many, many more miles than they ride and the overwelming majority cycle mostly or entirely for recreation. If they were the one their car behind this gaggle they'd be just as indignant as an average motorist. There are areas where there is no safe choice other than to take the lane but cyclist like those in the video just feed resentment and potentially bad motorist behavior.

 

[Chargeride]

And visa versa.
Disney made a very serious cartoon about it