Comments on: Cycling for Transportation http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/05/03/cycling-for-transportation-2/ The thoughts of an Aspie on Technology, Politics, and Everything. - The Answer isn't always 42. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:48:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Ryvaken http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/05/03/cycling-for-transportation-2/#comment-103 Ryvaken Thu, 03 May 2007 18:53:46 +0000 http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/05/03/cycling-for-transportation-2/#comment-103 I have no sense of equilibrium/balance/whatever and a bike, to me, is a deathtrap. If I need to go somewhere I will use feet and/or a vehicle with at least four wheels on the ground at any given time. I have no sense of equilibrium/balance/whatever and a bike, to me, is a deathtrap. If I need to go somewhere I will use feet and/or a vehicle with at least four wheels on the ground at any given time.

]]> By: Josh the Aspie http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/05/03/cycling-for-transportation-2/#comment-105 Josh the Aspie Thu, 03 May 2007 22:39:21 +0000 http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/05/03/cycling-for-transportation-2/#comment-105 I see no problem with people not using a bike if they have a good reason not too. Some people have back problems keeping them from using a bike. Heck, some people don't have working legs. I just think we need a little bit more consideration for the biker. I see no problem with people not using a bike if they have a good reason not too. Some people have back problems keeping them from using a bike. Heck, some people don’t have working legs.

I just think we need a little bit more consideration for the biker.

]]> By: Harsan_Ronyo http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/05/03/cycling-for-transportation-2/#comment-143 Harsan_Ronyo Mon, 21 May 2007 07:17:52 +0000 http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/05/03/cycling-for-transportation-2/#comment-143 I've been biking for years, biked to and from work for the last few months until I ended up working at a job 20 miles away. (1 hour to and from work on a summer day in Houston....bad.), my method for bike safety involved finding a road with more than one lane in any given direction, planting myself in the middle of the right hand lane, and hauling a$$. Traffic won't pass you in the same lane if they have to straddle two lanes to do so. Flashy lights and bright colored clothing also help. Texas laws are very clear, you have to ride as far to the right as is safe, but passing traffic creates an unsafe situation, therefore riding too far to the right is unsafe. As for sidewalk bicycling....the only crash I had riding around town was while sidewalk cycling. I came upon a tore up driveway on the other side of some tall grass. Endo'd the bike at 21 MPH and went headfirst into rocks and hard packed dirt. Bike landed on top of me. I was lucky I was wearing a helmet. Never bike on the sidewalk if you don't have to. I’ve been biking for years, biked to and from work for the last few months until I ended up working at a job 20 miles away. (1 hour to and from work on a summer day in Houston….bad.), my method for bike safety involved finding a road with more than one lane in any given direction, planting myself in the middle of the right hand lane, and hauling a$$. Traffic won’t pass you in the same lane if they have to straddle two lanes to do so. Flashy lights and bright colored clothing also help. Texas laws are very clear, you have to ride as far to the right as is safe, but passing traffic creates an unsafe situation, therefore riding too far to the right is unsafe.

As for sidewalk bicycling….the only crash I had riding around town was while sidewalk cycling. I came upon a tore up driveway on the other side of some tall grass. Endo’d the bike at 21 MPH and went headfirst into rocks and hard packed dirt. Bike landed on top of me. I was lucky I was wearing a helmet. Never bike on the sidewalk if you don’t have to.

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