50/50 Road/eBike Commuter
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Valparaiso, IN
Posts: 791
Bikes: Specialized Roubaix, Specialized Fatboy, Specialized Sirrus, Nashbar Campus, Taga 2.0 Trike
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I've been surprised of late, I've only just started regularly bike-commuting
to work and every time I've gone, I haven't had a single problem with any motorist. I did have one good situation where guy in a pickup couldn't pass me on the left because of oncoming traffic patiently waited behind me, and when he was able to pass waved as he did so. That was nice, and I waved back. It seems to me that people are finally waking up in the US and realizing how wasteful and irresponsible our lifestyles have been, unfortunately the actually doing something part seems to be lagging, but part of that I'm sure is that changing a system that has had so much momentum is a big ordeal that will take time. What I'm trying to do is set a good example ny being corteous to motorists, etc. Hopefully this way we'll get more people on bikes this way and less people zipping around with their cars. I have hope.