Bicycle safety is my #1 consideration anytime I am on the saddle. If I get hurt, I can't ride. If my bike is damaged, I can't ride. Since my bicycles are my transportation, if I can't ride, I can't go anywhere...to the grocery store, to the VA Clinic, etc.... If I injure someone else, or damage their property, it will cost me money, and severe emotional trauma, which I already have enough of, as an inactive Marine combat veteran. As far as I am concerned, an ounce of prevention is worth tons of cure.......

What I don't understand is why it is such an issue. It shouldn't take a genius to figure out what is safe, and what is not. OK..the helmet thing may have a little room for debate, but things like obeying traffic laws, avoiding heavy traffic areas when possible, not running red lights, stay off of sidewalks...these are all no-brainers. And you should always plan your routes ahead of time, unless you are just staying local and know the roads and traffic patterns extremely well. Instead of better software, better roads, better bikes, it seems to me what we really need is better riders. That would be a whole lot cheaper.......