// Safety

My title today is a blatant rip-off of the title over at the GJEL Accident Attorneys Blog, but I wanted to keep it, because it’s a pretty important question, and giving this post another title would take away from that, in my opinion.
I’ve thought a lot about safety, as a cyclist. In fact, one of [...]

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I get kind of harpy and annoying about this, but the sidewalks and crosswalks are for walking (that’s why they’re called sidewalks and crosswalks, people). When I’m walking, which I frequently am, I like to have the room to walk, and not be run off the sidewalk by cyclists. And when I’m riding my bike, which [...]

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I keep a close eye on cycling in the news, and usually it’s loads of fun. But sometimes things happen that are terrible beyond words. Usually the extra-terrible part has something to do with the severity of an accident. Maybe someone didn’t survive, or has suffered permanent brain damage. Sometimes the tragedy is that the [...]

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The Mercury News has a story today about a boy who was struck by a van while riding his bicycle in Danville. The boy was apparently running a red light in an area where the speed limit is 45 miles per hour. He wasn’t quick enough, and was struck by the van (which had a [...]

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I want to tackle the issue of road rage. Both of the car and cycling kind, and how they can intermix to create disastrous results.
I’ve often seen too much of cyclist road rage–and it scares me nearly to death because the Trusty Boyfriend has a bad case of it. It seems to me that it [...]

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