For some years now I’ve been riding the back roads to the backer roads and trails and early on I became very intentional in waving and smiling to every car/driver that passes me in either direction whenever it is safe for me to do so. I did this for the selfish reason that it is going to help drivers see me both now and thus be more likely to see me and others in the future.
For the first year I got “meh” equivalents in wet-noodle index finger waves if I got anything at all. Year two, I began to get an occasional enthusiastic wave. I even saw another person or two on a bicycle. In regular clothing, not the spandex racing crowd just passing through. Year three, nearly every driver waves enthusiastically, sometimes even initiating it, sometimes out the rolled down window, or the peace sign, or thumbs up. I have met five or six people in street clothes riding their bike, some now running errands, on the trail and roads that I used to have all to my own. It’s all corollary, I know, yet strongly so. Prior to this we’d never seen cyclists in street clothes, kids out riding. Is this the gift of a whacky guy on a bicycle with bags, sometimes full, smiling and waving wearing normal(ish) clothes? Either way, it is wonderful to see. With abandon, Patrick www.CredoFamily.org www.MindYourHeadCoop.org -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
