Originally Posted by
Vodalus
i recently started commuting to work. i used to commute to my old job but general laziness kept me from doing it once I started at my current job. It is 6 miles 1 way and almost completely flat.
The only part about it that is even remotely interesting is the roundThis about, and that is only interesting because i seem to get hit almost 1 out of every 4 times I go through it. In fact today might have been my last afternoon going this way - i really almost bought the farm…
My strategy to go through this roundabout is to take the appropriate lane to go "stright" and ride right down the middle of it. i slow down a lot more than I'd really need to and make an active effort to get eye contact with the people that are oncoming traffic and make sure they see me….
I'm thinking I'll start avoiding this intersection in the afternoon, but keep going through it in the mornings. This will be my excuse to start taking an even longer 'scenic route" home!
Roundabouts, known here in Massachusetts as Rotaries are pretty frequent. Most of the ones I encounter are about your size as photographed but some are much larger. I am an avid rearview mirror advocate, and indeed I even wear two, left and right eyeglass mounted Take-a-Look mirrors. I tout several different circumstances in which this is an effective practice, especially in rotaries.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
…My own preference is to use both left and right Take-a-Look mirrors. The additional right-hand mirror is useful when:
-riding on the left side of a one-way street
-down the middle of a multilane road
-in a rotary
-when coming out of a curve to the right
-when a bright sun is behind you because at least one of the mirrors will be out of direct sunlight.