Originally Posted by
genec
It sounds as if the 2% of the adult population of which you are speaking were those folks that never rode a bike before.
My comments are in the context of sending 10-13 year old children out to commute on 50, 55, and 65MPH roads where even skilled cyclists have been killed. Now seriously do you believe that children of that age should be on our US roads with traffic moving by at those speeds, and that those children could for instance negotiate a vehicular left turn in moderate to heavy traffic?
Genec suggests that it is difficult for cyclists of age 13 (the age at which I said they were qualified for just about any road) to negotiate a vehicular left turn. What is it that makes that negotiation so more difficult for them, Gene. Do you assert that they are unable to tell when a motorist has slowed for them? Or do you assert that motorists will not slow down for cyclists who are aged 13?