Originally Posted by sbhikes

Hey you guys, I'm talking about a live kid, a Junior high kid, who is alive and who chooses to ride on the streets because he feels safer than riding on the bike path. But his reason for feeling safer has nothing to do with all the usually boogy-man nonsense about intersections with bike paths. It has to do with him being afraid of getting his bike stolen.

So, to avoid getting his bike stolen he rides on the street, on very busy streets you wouldn't expect kids to ride on and he does so confidently and with his father's encouragement.

So all this talk about deaths and needing road 1 courses is missing the point. The point was, we've probably forgotten what it's like to be smaller and weaker than people who might want to steal your very expensive bike.