So like I said you have to do what you have to do . Even if you have to go the wrong way or on the sidewalk . Just has you get their safe .
Two nights ago I'm riding home @ 11:00 PM and as I'm heading up a hill and going into a weak ass traffic calming section of the road, I hear one of those oversized monster trucks flooring it up the hill. I stay on the road (there's no bike lane) until I hear the truck coming up to the traffic calming part of the hill. At this point I fear I will be killed (call it bicyclist intuition) so I plant my right leg on to the sidewalk and lift my bike and myself on to the sidewalk and turn around to watch what could have been. Sure enough The truck came around the bend at about 50 mph in a 20 mph zone, and this driver was hugging the sidewalk. I would have been dead. It's a cagers world and I'm always aware.