Originally Posted by
Elaine
Oh, dear. I realize now that discussions of this this nature are not for everybody. I do apologize for any distress my question may have caused you. While I can be a tad insensitive at times, that was most certainly not my intent here.
I’m going to try and remedy this with an addendum to the original post – a word of warning of sorts.
Again, I’m sorry.
Respondents can take a different approach ... when i read your post my first thought was to tell the story of the time I nearly wrecked my car running some pretty, long-haired young lady cyclist off the road ... she flipped over the curb and I barely kept the car on the tarmac ......
People read these threads voluntarily .. and frankly, if they cannot face the risk of road riding I'd sooner they not ride on the road. Not that I want it all to myself, but because they could panic and do everything wrong in a tense situation and maybe make things worse for themselves and everyone else ... like the drivers (in the days before ABS) who, at the first sing of trouble , would stomp the brake pedal to the floor, thus surrendering all control over the vehicle and sliding sideways into whatever they probably could have steered around if they hadn't panicked.
If you want to get out there with cars and trucks, Face the Realities. Know What You Are Doing. Realize that bad things can happen. Hopefully, in the one-in-ten-thousand chance something a little scary does happen, the rider can ride around or through it, and not into it.
If nothing else, they can play drunk and completely relax when they fall and maybe not get so hurt.
Glad you survived ...
and sorry, I thought you were someone else and didn't see who it was until the last minute ....