Zebee Johnstone
In alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent on Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:44:30 -0500
Wilson <ww@dixiedancekings.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not telling you not to cycle on the road, I'm only suggesting if you do
> and you get run over by a bus there's every likelihood it will be your last
> ride. So do whatever you can to avoid that eventuality. To me this is
> common sense stuff. You know like maybe not wearing a helmet when you
> ride - you consider the safety ramifications and you take your chances.
The important bit is to know what the safety ramifications *are*.
It isn't what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you think you
know that isn't so.
Things like active vs passive safety, road position, predictability,
usefulness or otherwise of eyecontact, heaps of things that need to be
carefully thought about rather than just assumed based on gut feeling.
Zebee
Wilson <ww@dixiedancekings.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not telling you not to cycle on the road, I'm only suggesting if you do
> and you get run over by a bus there's every likelihood it will be your last
> ride. So do whatever you can to avoid that eventuality. To me this is
> common sense stuff. You know like maybe not wearing a helmet when you
> ride - you consider the safety ramifications and you take your chances.
The important bit is to know what the safety ramifications *are*.
It isn't what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you think you
know that isn't so.
Things like active vs passive safety, road position, predictability,
usefulness or otherwise of eyecontact, heaps of things that need to be
carefully thought about rather than just assumed based on gut feeling.
Zebee
