Ever contemplate your mortality on the road?
06-04-15 | 06:49 PM
#76
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Unfortunately as soon as you get old enough to be a perfect cyclist, your eyesight, heart, and lungs go out
06-04-15 | 07:01 PM
#77
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From: D'uh... I am a Cutter
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Ever contemplate your mortality on the road?
I am beginning to wonder if I understand the post. I have contemplated my mortality. Once.... decades ago. I hadn't realized others felt compelled to repeat that. Or that location had anything to do with mortality.
I am beginning to wonder if I understand the post. I have contemplated my mortality. Once.... decades ago. I hadn't realized others felt compelled to repeat that. Or that location had anything to do with mortality.
06-05-15 | 07:13 AM
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Definitely. Recently when I rolled up to a 6 way intersection where there was an ambulance and a police car just as they put the cyclist's bike in the ambulance.
06-06-15 | 07:58 AM
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From: Austin, TX
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I mostly ride through residential arterial roads and on larger roads (Congress in Austin) with substantially wide bike lanes. Together with that and a glasses mounted mirror, I feel pretty safe on my daily commute. I also take it pretty slow, always signal, and otherwise adhere to traffic laws (don't blow lights, stop fully at stop signs, etc).
All in all, commuting doesn't make me contemplate my mortality any more than usual. I've gotten to the point where I bought a longtail cargo bike and am confident enough to drop my three kiddos off at school/pre-school on my morning commute.
All in all, commuting doesn't make me contemplate my mortality any more than usual. I've gotten to the point where I bought a longtail cargo bike and am confident enough to drop my three kiddos off at school/pre-school on my morning commute.
06-09-15 | 10:34 AM
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