TownieDeac
words are futile devices
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My dad's colleague was hit by a bus cycling to work last year and has been in a coma ever since. It hit pretty close to home, having met the man and knowing my dad and he have cycled together often on weekends, and that my dad rides into work about half the time.
I was run off the road a couple times out west and had beer bottles thrown at me from the back of a pickup, but fortunately have never been hit. A cyclist is just as responsible for safely getting from point A to point B as a person walking or driving, and I'm definitely not reckless when I'm commuting or riding in a city. But even if someone is aggressive on a bike, you're far less likely to hurt yourself from a cyclist doing something bad than somebody in a car, whether you're walking or driving or cycling yourself. The mentality of catamount and others is what gets thousands of cyclists injured or killed every year, a lot worse than the mentality of "I'm gonna roll through this stop sign at this clear intersection on my bike."
I was run off the road a couple times out west and had beer bottles thrown at me from the back of a pickup, but fortunately have never been hit. A cyclist is just as responsible for safely getting from point A to point B as a person walking or driving, and I'm definitely not reckless when I'm commuting or riding in a city. But even if someone is aggressive on a bike, you're far less likely to hurt yourself from a cyclist doing something bad than somebody in a car, whether you're walking or driving or cycling yourself. The mentality of catamount and others is what gets thousands of cyclists injured or killed every year, a lot worse than the mentality of "I'm gonna roll through this stop sign at this clear intersection on my bike."