I understand how you feel. We all feel this way occasionally and most places are car centric in that there is not bike specific infrastructure. And gyms are located on heavily traveled roads as most businesses are. I'm a Cycling Savvy Instructor which helps riders understand the traffic system so you can have a better experience. I invite you to join me for my next course Jan 27th. The classroom session is on Zoom so you can attend from anywhere. Please let me know if you are interested and I can send you the link. By all means you should be able to ride your bike wherever you want. Cycling Savvy has helped me do just that. I make all my trips by bike except one per week (to keep the battery charged). If I can, you can too. I'm in Charlotte, NC which is also car centric. On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at 2:58:14 PM UTC-5 Jay LePree wrote:
> 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/f9bd100f-68cd-475a-8e19-f34037e32df6n%40googlegroups.com.
