Comments for Sloan's Cycling Blog http://ssloansjca.wordpress.com Steve Sloan's San Jose Cycling Blog Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:04:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Editorial: Danger on the roads by Cycling Road Safety Tip « Get To The Point http://ssloansjca.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/editorial-danger-on-the-roads/#comment-4 Cycling Road Safety Tip « Get To The Point Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:04:06 +0000 http://ssloansjca.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/editorial-danger-on-the-roads/#comment-4 [...] I left a comment on Sloan’s Cycling Blog just over a week ago about how I’d got over my ‘Yeeehah I’m [...] [...] I left a comment on Sloan’s Cycling Blog just over a week ago about how I’d got over my ‘Yeeehah I’m [...]

]]> Comment on Editorial: Danger on the roads by karlmccracken http://ssloansjca.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/editorial-danger-on-the-roads/#comment-2 karlmccracken Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:49:03 +0000 http://ssloansjca.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/editorial-danger-on-the-roads/#comment-2 Hi Steve - A good reminder that none of us has a monopoly on being right! I regularly overtake queues of cars who're waiting for traffic lights, but do so with a lot more caution than some of my fellow cyclists seem to appreciate. I learned the lesson well when I was a 20 year-old testosterone-fuelled student cyclist. In three months I had three very near misses that were all down to my own stooopidity in playing with the traffic. After the third, I had a moment of clarity, and realised that perhaps the guys in their tin boxes weren't the only jerks on the road . . . . . . . . I still get near-misses now. But I tend to see them coming - drivers who've only cleared a 10 inch circle in the windscreen ice is my particular favourite at this time of year! Karl. Hi Steve -
A good reminder that none of us has a monopoly on being right! I regularly overtake queues of cars who’re waiting for traffic lights, but do so with a lot more caution than some of my fellow cyclists seem to appreciate. I learned the lesson well when I was a 20 year-old testosterone-fuelled student cyclist. In three months I had three very near misses that were all down to my own stooopidity in playing with the traffic. After the third, I had a moment of clarity, and realised that perhaps the guys in their tin boxes weren’t the only jerks on the road . . . .

. . . . I still get near-misses now. But I tend to see them coming – drivers who’ve only cleared a 10 inch circle in the windscreen ice is my particular favourite at this time of year!
Karl.

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