I meant to send this to the group.
-i
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Doug,
I hear myself out of danger all the time- when people tell me they are passing,
when cars swerve by, when a goose honks it's warning signal. And I also call
others' attention to danger with my bell, voice etc. I use my waving arms,
too, but there are a lot of times (really) that an audible warning does or
could save the day.
I don't attempt to use hearing instead of seeing, but I use it along with
seeing. If you can't hear well or see well then maybe you have sufficiently
trained yourself to rely on your better senses, but for the rest of us, we can
use all the sensory help we can get.
-india
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From: Doug Adler <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, September 28, 2009 1:29 pm
Subject: Re: [Bikies] Comment on the biker hit by legislator who ran the red
light incident, but waitm there's more!
To: [email protected]
Cc: India Rose Viola <[email protected]>
> Great byline, but I just don't know if I can get on board with the no
> headphones thing. Maybe my bias as a result of my being hard of
> hearing, but I think being alert (and maybe using a mirror) is way
> more important than hearing. And depending on the volume you can
> still hear ok with them, probably better than I can with my hearing
> aids whistling in the wind anyway. So I hate to have music lovers
> tune out from the rest of the safety message.
> In what scenarios can you really hear yourself out of danger? I just
> don't see it...
>
> -Doug
>
> India Rose Viola wrote:
> >Although we are all distracted from time to time, I have to say that
> it seems from my anecdotal n=1 observations, that the privilege of
> driving a car/truck/SUV is not taken as seriously as it should be. As
> much as it may be inconvenient or difficult, driving requires one's
> full attention. I think biking on roadways or mixed-use paths does
> too... which could lead me down the path of getting all up-in-arms
> about folks who bike with earbuds/headphones on. I am not a fan of
> that. My new byline for cyclists is, "Our senses are our defenses".
>
> >-India (loves to preach, doesn't she?)
> >
> >
>
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