Originally Posted by
the sci guy
but i like to think most of them don't charge out in front of traffic without looking.
Well, look at it this way -- those who do, er, did, on a regular basis are probably dead now.
Everybody makes mistakes (and sometimes people die from them, don't get me wrong) but if cyclists did regularly do that ... they'd all be dead. So that's pretty good evidence that most of them don't do that right there.