From the Chicago Trib: Quinn sought the change after reading a March 21 Chicago Tribune story. The article reported on a long-standing IDOT policy to exclude dooring crashes from annual state traffic accident statistics because the motor vehicles involved in such collisions are not moving. I don’t know if Florida even has a policy...
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I keep reading and seeing things about the Florida laws that I am pretty sure  are wrong. Made worse is that the media quotes people — “authorities” — who are also wrong. So the the wrong statements get amplified. Here are two things I saw just in the last week that made my jaw...
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The Advice “I ride like I’m invisible.” “You have to assume they don’t see you.” “I ride so it doesn’t matter if they see me or not.” How often does some variation of this advice come up on Internet forums? Perhaps you’ve heard it in person from a well-meaning and even experienced cyclist. I’ve...
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I never heard that expression until I bought a light from a real bicycle store. It mystifies me when I see folks riding around with a single blinking white LED on the front. I just about jumped out of my skin when I was driving out east SR-50 and, well within “striking range” saw...
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A compelling video is making the rounds of Facebook and cycling blogs on how helmet promotion feeds the fear of cycling.  Mikael Colville-Anderson makes some very powerful arguments against the insistence that all cyclists wear helmets, and shows the real absurdity of that message.  He blames a culture of fear – bolstered by marketing...
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“‘I’ll see it when I believe it’ is more accurate than ‘I’ll believe it when I see it.’” – Social psychologist Karl Weick Regular readers of this blog know we recommend an assertive lane position when the lane is too narrow to share.  Our rationale was initially that when a cyclist is in the...
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This “three foot” thing has me thinking. Long time ago, I drove ships for a living. First in the Navy and then in the US Merchant Marine. Ships are funny things, they don’t turn “on a dime”, rather when the rudder is shifted and the wheel held at a certain number of degrees to...
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Some interesting things happened on my way downtown yesterday. I was headed to the Health & Fitness Fair at First Presbyterian Church on Jackson St to promote Bike/Walk Central Florida and CyclingSavvy. My printer crapped out, so I needed to stop and get some fliers printed at Staples. And I was running out of...
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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...
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As a tradesman, I was taught two very important things. One was “Attention to Detail!” and the other was “Use the Right Tool for the Right Job!” “Attention to Detail” means to single-mindedly finish one thing before moving on to another (so much for multi-tasking) and “Use the Right Tool for the Right Job”...
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