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Old 05-31-08, 03:39 PM
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kevbo
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Autum,

Driving a car tends to make one blind to the best routes for bicycling. When they get on a bicycle, they tend to take the same routes. Lately (with gas prices) I've noticed some cyclists making extreamly poor route choices. This morning I passed (on my motorcycle) a cyclist going uphill in the left lane! on a road with no shoulders, two narrow traffic lanes and a 35 mph speed limit (meaning the traffic was doing 40). Three blocks over is a paralell road with a wide bike lanes and much less traffic, and about a mile the other way is a MUP. There are also a bunch of low traffic streets running through the neighborhoods on either side of the road this guy was on.


When you start riding, you'll probably find some routes that have less traffic. And maybe a few shortcuts that aren't available to cars.
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