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I've been in probably half a dozen cycling accidents since I started "seriously" biking (city-street commuting) which have ranged from clumsy falling (my fault)
by spacemanaki 16y ago
I've been in probably half a dozen cycling accidents since I started "seriously" biking (city-street commuting) which have ranged from clumsy falling (my fault) to getting door-ed and hit by cars. I've been there with the vowing-never-to-ride-again, but with the incidents involving cars, the outrage sometimes helps to motivate returning to the saddle, fueling cyclist-driver antagonism, as in "cars can't keep me off the road." It has also helped to remind me to treat every car door as a potential trap, and every car as a pseudo-malicious beast out to get me, and thus ride with more vigilance and care.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoNeal Stephenson wrote something like that in Zodiac. The protagonist mentions his philosophy on riding his bike as the assumption that he is wearing a fluorescent vest, and there is a million dollar bounty on his head - if a car sees you and has to consciously make the decision to not kill you, you're already wrong.
- ax0n 16y agoBike Ninjas are usually that way out of paranoia... you know the type: dark clothes. dark bike. no lights. no reflectors. sometimes riding against traffic like they used to teach us in kindergarten. Most of them think that motorists really are out there to kill them, so they'd rather not be seen and rely on their own perceived "skill" to stay alive.