Old 04-28-12 | 06:24 PM
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RobertHurst
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From: Denver
Originally Posted by John Forester
Both Genec's and Hagen's comments apply to competitive activities in which some succeed and some fail. That was not the case in the child cycling classes that I taught; almost (possibly all) of those who completed the program up to the final test on real roads in real traffic (the same conditions in which they had been trained) past the test. Class average scores were about 95% when the average score for the local adults on the roads at commuting times was a miserable, and flunking, 55%. You see, obeying the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles is quite an easy task that almost anyone can do....
Agreed on that. Simply following traffic rules and riding predictably is kid stuff. But that is not what safe cycling is.
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