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Depending on where you live this advise my shorten your life expectancy and health expectancy. I’ve seen those on bikes get hit by cars plenty of times.
by mpalczewski 5y ago
Depending on where you live this advise my shorten your life expectancy and health expectancy. I’ve seen those on bikes get hit by cars plenty of times.
- arisAlexis 5y agoAlso cycling next to exhaust fumes is controversial at least
- jl2718 5y agoThis is correct. Daily street commuters can expect to get hit. I took some observational statistics at the place where I started commuting, and there were about 20 people that biked to work every day, and one got killed on average every 2 years, mostly on a single 400m stretch of busy road running to the building entrance. The main feature that increases safety seems to be overt bike lane and shoulder markings. So push for those if you have any involvement with local government. Our problem was the snow plows grinding down the paint, so some drivers would do things like try to pass on the right as if it was a multi-lane road. They will not notice a cyclist at all when doing something like that. I've also been hit by red light racers. They are only looking at the light, zero awareness of anything else. The best thing you can do is probably to just run the brightest flashers you can at all times, front, back, and sides. And this sounds silly, but, think about what you are going to do if something goes wrong. My worst hit was greatly mitigated by just remaining calm and reacting as I had rehearsed in my head, rolling up onto the windshield and tucking into a ball as I flipped through the air. One thing I wasn't quite ready for what what it feels like to get hit by a wall of steel at that speed, nothing like what happens at normal human speeds like playing football.