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Old 03-16-08 | 09:58 AM
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;

Nice video, Dan and Brian. I wish it were required viewing for all prospective motorists and bicyclists. It would be great to get it put into traffic school courses, as well.

I was interested that Dan often took the right tire track, as I frequently do, rather than the center of the lane, as HH would insist.

The lower the speed limit and traffic flow, the more I endorse the principles of vehicular cycling. It is at freeway-style high speed free merges and diverges where our opinions sometimes "diverge."

I do fully concur with gene's comments, above. Let's see a cycling training video shot on Jamboree Rd. when traffic is heavy, but still fast. The more I think about it, the more I realize that, except for horrendous air quality, I actually preferred transportation cycling in Los Angeles over San Diego. When I lived in the vast west central L.A. floodplain, with its tight grid of well-connected local streets, I could almost always chart an efficient route on 35mph or slower streets. In much of San Diego and southern Orange Counties, high-speed streets are sometimes all that is available. Speed kills -- physics is physics, there is less time for motorists to react, etc.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069

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