What you can do #1

How can you support this ride?*  The easiest way that you can do this is simply to move over a little when you're passing a cyclist on the road.

Yep. 

In some states, the law requires cars, trucks, and motorcycles to give cyclists three feet of space when passing.  (Even Florida, my dear home state, requires it.  Even Florida.)  Seems like a good idea, ya?

It's pretty scary to be buzzed when you're on a bike.  Cars have ridden too close to me many times, and if you know a cyclist who's been on the road, she or he has too.  Sometimes people just don't know.  Other times people do it as a way to threaten cyclists.  Sometimes, car drivers are pissed that bikes are on the road, and so by buzzing cyclists, the drivers think they're teaching a lesson.  Well, that sucks.  And it's poor logic, too.

Sure, sometimes bike riders are jerks (ahem) and that's pretty irritating, but that doesn't mean they deserve to be threatened (especially the I'm-gonna-kill-or-injure-you type of threat that buzzing somebody is).  Nope, they don't.  Just take a deep breath and move on.  Feel free to shake your head at them, but please don't buzz them.  It's incredibly scary.

So that's it!  Three feet and a little more care when your behind the wheel can go a LONG way to making our roads safer.







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