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Originally Posted by DaddioM
Do you guys have decent shoulders on most of the roads??
Mike
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Most of the roads around my place in So. California
have BIKE LANES. Those that don't have mostly
decent shoulders BUT, I don't ride on the shoulder!
The way I figure it, the shoulder is for emergencies
only, as in if some lunatic gets too close to me and
I need to GO RIGHT in a hurry.
I tend to ride bold, yet defensively. If I am on
a 4 lane road, (two lanes each side) I tend to
take enough of the RIGHT LANE to make people
go around me with a wide birth even having to
take the LEFT lane to avoid me.
I figure it is safer to ride bold and defensively than
to ride like a mouse and have *ssholes run me into the ditch.
For the record, I broke my hip on a bike 3 years ago
but it was due to a mechanical and a human error.
I tend to be extra careful, especially on left hand turns.