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Originally Posted by ParkingTheBus
In some areas/instances, there's literally 0 you can do unfortunately. Where I live, they just enacted a safe passing law and posted up a million of those "Share the Road" signs, but I still encounter the same garbage almost daily. If it's something you really like to do, I'd keep on going. For myself, I'll just stick to commuting and trails.



Reading comprehension not even once. Lol. I don't ride sidewalks. I ride roads and MUP's which are clearly labeled and even have their own traffic signals for bicycles. I don't need to be dressed up in lycra and riding a carbon frame bike to be a road cyclist. I think the few thousand kilometers and couple of centuries that I've covered on my hybrid and friends road bike qualifies me as one



Sad, I'd expect much more support from a fellow cyclist.



I've found that riding with a friend or doing a group ride is much safer. More people to overtake means drivers have more people to watch out for. I have a couple routes that I ride for fitness, about 60 km. It gets old, but I also don't have to deal with cars.
I'm going to try out some group rides next spring/summer for sure. I just need to find something in my area other than the bike shop that we bought my wife's bike from. They do a group ride every Saturday at 8am during the summer...but I'm not exactly a morning person. After having to get up at 4:30am every day for work during the week I like to sleep in a bit (usually around 5:30am or whenever the dogs wake us up...no later than 6am) on the weekends and relax with a big cup of coffee before we do our weekly chores (groceries, etc.) on Saturday mornings.
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