From the Chicago Tribune:
Let’s face it. Gas prices are crazy, and as minds turn to two-wheeled transport as a viable alternative, those minds wonder if it’s possible to ride a bicycle in urban traffic without injury or vexation.
Yes. Drivers don’t want to kill you. Most drivers are as indifferent to you and your bicycle as they are to everything else on the road. Over the roughly 280,000 miles accumulated over a 26-year (and counting) cycling history, I have been knocked off my bike by cars three times:
Hit by a stop-sign runner.
Brushed by a turning taxicab.
Bumped by a cabbie who didn’t like my offer to merge proctology and podiatry.
No serious injuries, just some common sense gained. In every instance my Eight Rules of Butt Preservation would have saved the day. So read, heed and happy pedaling.
