The first First Friday ride was a blast! We had 19 riders so we split into 2 groups. The object is to have a small enough group that it's easy to communicate between front and rear riders and for the whole group to make it through a traffic signal. We decided to ride...
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And we can do the same on University Boulevard, see… This video is from the UCF Bike Bus during morning rush hour. We had a perfect ride, just like this, the whole way. The traffic was thick enough that we pulled up behind the same cars at two consecutive traffic lights. Yet with a little cooperation...
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I kid you not, there is an expert at everything on the internet. Just so you know, there are people who claim to have the “secret” to riding in a bike lane next to parked cars like we have in Orlando in College Park and Baldwin Park. Here is Gary from California explaining how to do...
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Bob Sutterfield has written an excellent letter to his local paper about the problem of motorists passing into oncoming traffic. This is the only regular problem I have with car drivers. I rarely experience close passing. Harassment comes from significantly less than 1% of drivers I encounter. I almost never have conflicts or scary...
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My Dad is over 80-years old and he is a gutter bunny. This would not be so bad, except that he drives his truck that way, almost in the gutter and if you are in the gutter and he is in the gutter he will not move over much. He drives with his right wheels...
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A question from a reader: “Could you give us the story behind the new triangles painted on the pavement at some crosswalks? When I showed pictures to friends and co-workers, nobody knew what they meant.” Such a series of triangles is called a yield line.  They’re informally referred to as “shark’s teeth.”  They are...
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Editorial from the Parsippany, NJ Daily Record OK, maybe we sound like killjoys, but we don’t see anything all that amusing about bad drivers. Oddly enough, the AAA New Jersey Automobile Club does. AAA affiliates across the country are promoting a new reality show called “America’s Worst Driver.” Shown on The Travel...
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This video is from our first real road ride, Tuesday, Feb 9. Late morning, we headed to lunch a round-about way. The instructors plan routes to use major roads like John Young and US 441 to initiate the officers in operating around large, fast, noisy motor vehicles. It also embeds the principle that bicycles...
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I was pleased that somebody is doing something, but then I read that line and I wonder what they are doing. Law-enforcement officers throughout Orange County are conducting targeted traffic details today at locations that have a high rate of pedestrian and bicyclist accidents. The enforcement is intended to bring a heightened awareness to both drivers...
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Semoran Blvd & University in Orange County The last two years have brought unprecedented change to the nation and to Central Florida. The financial crisis virtually dried up credit. This caused the housing bubble to burst putting Florida’s housing industry sales into free fall. Unemployment, foreclosures and out-migration rippled through the economy....
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