Doug; Like you I'm becoming an old f**t, er, dude, who, like many others, succumbed to the siren call of rock music in headphones during my robust youth. But I still can hear the sounds of auto traffic in motors, horns, and tires approaching around me. What startles me are the stealth cyclists racing up from behind. My usual riding mantras are: a) other drivers/riders don't have my best intentions at heart.b) some knucklehead behind me is the one who complains that cyclists don't stop at lightsc) if you have the time to ride you have time to stop (which is an admission that I'm too old to race with the youngin's or intersections) Your closing statement "I just don't see it..." Really becomes the best summary of the issue here. Neither the cyclist or the driver "saw" it coming. Because I don't hear everything or see everything doesn't mean nobody's there. And if there's something that obscures my sightlines then I usually make a point to slow down. DJ - OK, I'm off my soap box --- On Mon, 9/28/09, Doug Adler <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Doug Adler <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Bikies] Comment on the biker hit by legislator who ran the red light incident, but waitm there's more! To: [email protected] Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 1:29 PM 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?) > > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
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