I love Oliver’s idea of being bad. Yesterday, I got really lucky to not be badly injured or killed on my bike. I ride out quiet canyon roads but coming back home I often ride in the bike lane through town as our streets are covered with patchwork asphalt and very bumpy. A car turned in front of me at the courthouse and I braked and went off my bike into the right lane. There was plenty of traffic coming thru town but no one in that lane at the moment. People stopped to see if I needed help, I wish one of them had followed that car. I have a big knot on my leg and scrapes on my hands but am okay and was able to ride home. I wear an orange helmet and a bright sweater, I’m not invisible. From now on, I’ll come home on dirt roads through the back side of town.
I love Oliver’s idea of being bad. Yesterday, I got really lucky to not be badly injured or killed on my bike. I ride out quiet canyon roads but coming back home I often ride in the bike lane through town as our streets are covered with patchwork asphalt and very bumpy. A car turned in front of me at the courthouse and I braked and went off my bike into the right lane. There was plenty of traffic coming thru town but no one in that lane at the moment. People stopped to see if I needed help, I wish one of them had followed that car. I have a big knot on my leg and scrapes on my hands but am okay and was able to ride home. I wear an orange helmet and a bright sweater, I’m not invisible. From now on, I’ll come home on dirt roads through the back side of town.