Originally posted by chewa
What amazes me is how many drivers can see round corners, over humped back hills etc. that's the only way I can explain how they can pass a bike at these points.
Wade Nelson's "Cyclo-Math" may offer an explanation....
"Motorists use cyclo-math when choosing how and when to un-safely pass a cyclist. If there's a car back, and a car up, there's a 99.44% chance they will BOTH adjust their trajectories to cross paths at exactly at the point in the road where you are cycling, no matter what speed they were traveling at previously. These are the same people who can't solve the train going 40 mph problems in 7th grade"
The entire piece is now posted in the General Discussions Area:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...threadid=24605
It's also posted on my Web site:
http://home.att.net/~thetandemlink/a...cyclomath.html