06-18-2008, 11:31 PM
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ECO-Evolution
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Originally Posted by skyl4rk
use flat handlebars to ride upright so you can look around easily
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This is kind of matter of choice. I ride both and would not say this is necessarily true
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I don't wear a helmet but i ride pretty slow. i come from europe where almost no one wears a helmet and there are far more bikers on the road, but people are pretty relaxed about biking for the most part, not racers. Go ahead and wear one, i'm just saying I would not make it a hard and fast rule
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Does not matter how slow you are going if you get dumped for what ever reason. It only take 5 seconds to put one on
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watch out when there is glare early am or late pm, assume you are invisible
If I have traffic behind me I will skip over to the sidewalk, i know that is not always possible and some folks want to assert there rights, but I try not to let teh cagers have a chance to hit me |
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Skipping from road to sidewalk to road makes you kind of unpredicitable. If it a dangerous section of road then I agree
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YMMV
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