Posts under ‘Dealing with Traffic’

I have been using my bike as a mode of transportation on and off for the last 10 years. At this point, it does not seem extraordinary to ride to the store to get a sixer of Fat Tire, take the boys to get donuts on a Saturday morning, or to ride to work.  Maybe I [...]

With the recently passed Safe Passing ordinance now in effect, the City of Austin has moved toward putting more responsibility on the drivers of cars and trucks to make our roads safe for all users. While bike lanes and bike paths have been found to be the safest option for those on two wheels, sometime [...]

BikePortland recently reported on a study published in Environmental Health that aggregated the results of 23 recent English language reports on bicycle crash data. In contrast to what some (including the [update] former Dallas Bike Coordinator) say, the report found that bicycle infrastructure such as bike lanes and bike paths were safer for cyclists than [...]

Editor note: In response to the Freaknomics blog article about motoists being at fault in 90% of bike-car accidents, local attorney and cyclist Jay Paul Warren posted on the ACA e-mail list this advice if you should be so unfortunate as to be hit by a car while riding. (No advice on what to do [...]

Over the July 4th holiday, I visited Seattle to see some family, but I also took my travel bike with me to get in some riding and test the new Versa Shifters for internal hub (review coming later this week.) Now that I have been back in Austin for a few weeks, I’ve reflected on [...]

I was reading John Kelso’s column from Thursday last night and he’s got an interesting story about a cyclist that was refused service at a Wachovia bank. Here’s a quote: On Wednesday mid-morning Jimmy says he pedaled up to the drive-up window of the Wachovia branch bank on South Congress right next to Richard Jones [...]

This morning, I came within a few feet of being hit by an inattentive Range Rover driver who was turning left into an automotive repair shop on south Congress. This driver wasn’t even looking at the road at all as she turned, she seemed to be looking nearly straight down! And then it dawned on [...]

Just discovered over at Epicurean Cyclist this great video about how to ride safely in traffic produced by the Los Angeles Bicycle Coalition. Despite reports recently made that contradict the some of the tactics used here, the video is very common sense without being preachy. They use actual footage from the road and to roll [...]