I tried to commute to work along a 21 mile stretch of mostly country road to stay away from the city traffic. I've been "buzzed", and run of the road several times always by people in trucks, to the point where I believed it was just a matter of time until I was hit, so I stopped road riding all together.

I still do regular greenway riding though, and am working with my town to get more bike lanes and trails set up. I know many of you think these solutions are counter productive, but the *first* thing I did was implore the local cycling community to see if we could get the word out to the public about the law when it comes to bikes and cars in the roadways. Those suggestions were met with general apathy and a few cases of anger by cyclists that felt the "STR" message was good enough. Uh, yeah, so I see...

No wonder I'm not a road cyclist.