Hello everyone. My name is Brian and I hail from Orange County, CA. Although I always enjoyed a little mountain biking here and there, I have now been a bicycle commuter for the past year and a half. It has been an eye opening experience to say the least.

As such, I have found myself becoming a bit of a one man activist against law enforcement. I say "against" as most of the ones I have dealt with seem quite anti-cyclist in that they refuse to do anything about those drivers who, at the risk of sounding hyperbolic, assault us with their four wheeled weapons. The police just don't seem to understand the problems us cyclists have to deal with on a daily basis and how their lack of enforcing and outright misinterpretation of the law endangers us.

I have recently started my own website and blog on bicycle safety, and plan to add a YouTube channel as well. But I see from the forum rules that posting links is prohibited so I will respect that. I already run a small forum unrelated to biking and I understand the need for forum rules. I suppose if anyone is really interested they can PM me.

Anyway, I hope to engage in discussions with others who share my troubles and to get their opinions and advice to my questions. Sometimes I need a 'sanity check' from someone else to make sure I'm thinking about things correctly. And perhaps I may become a valued member in the future sharing with others what I have learned.

My handle "HazardBiker" comes from two things: first is that I am a bicyclist dealing with the hazards of riding legally on the road, and also that much of my commute is on a street called Hazard Ave!!!

Ride safe!!!

Brian