Hi all: I live in car-centric, crowded, northeastern NJ. I joined a gym two towns over and ride my bike to the gym, about 3.5 miles each way. I take the least busiest streets possible, but unfortunately, I need to ride through a semi-busy, though traffic-lit intersection.
In my last 12 trips to the gym, I have had two near misses which could have been hits if I did not ride like Kent Peterson had described. "Treat cars like big animals with poor eyesight that can't see you. In one case, at night, although I have a Schmidt Edelux II, a huge reflective ankle bracelet on my basket, wear a reflective vest and have reflective ankle bands, I had a car nearly make a left turn into me while I was crossing the intersection. The car was going straight through, and without signalling, decided to turn left at the last minute. I stopped in time to prevent "the left cross". Not less than 5 days later, in clear, bright daylight, I had a car pass me on the right and then proceed to turn right in front of me. (I think this is called the right hook?). Again, applying Kent's approach to riding, I was able to stop in time. I am thankful my skills were sufficent to prevent contact, but now I am skittish. Given the legalized weed and the propensity for peope to drink around this time of year, I am finding excuses not to ride to the gym, even in daylight. I think it is the back-to-back nature of these incidents that has me most unnerved. How have all of you got your groove back on? Kind regards, Jay LePree Demarest, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c931832a-3509-4b4a-9b26-ca86087d1f11n%40googlegroups.com.
