blinkies - can't get too many - tail light plus helmet. The point is to help them identify you as early as possible and give them the maximum amount of time to think clearly. In town, there's a greenway that crosses an intersection at the junction of a 5-lane thoroughfare with a controlled access highway. Bikes have to cross the right-turn ramps to get to the crosswalk signal. I use a front helmet blinkie and turn it on as I approach that intersection, and turn it back off when I leave (I run the separate headlight solid on the greenway - it's not polite to blinkie bright lights at pedestrians). .
Out here, hordes of city cyclists and clubs come out to ride the semi-rural, twisty-bit, no-shoulder macadam. Most of the drivers out here are used to it, and respond very well to hand signals. I give them the slow signal, and they will not pass on a blind sweeper. As soon as I can see, I give them the thumbs up if it's clear - many still won't pass until they can see the clear. There are also flat-mean rednecks out here who resent the weekend city invasion, and think driving dangerously around bikes is cute. One day a p/u driver was honking at my daughter behind me on a blind bluff climb and when he passed me in the very clear, he was 4 inches from me with a shear drop to my right. I flipped him off yelling 4-feet is the law. He stopped. When I caught up to the little napoleonic f***, He was telling me how he hates us city people. When I told him I live here, he called me a liar. I told him I live on Buck Lane and asked him to visit. He called me some name and drove off. I don't ride that road any more. But even the climb I take to dodge it, there are still intentional mean, dangerous idiots. On a long, fast clear-view decent, I was doing the speed limit and a truck passed me within 6 inches and could have easily given me the proper berth. I'm tempted to get a shoulder holster for my hog-leg Smith and wear it as a backpack. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
