[SDCBC] What were they thinking?

[Mike Elliott]

Hi Tom, please don't take my smarta$$ comment seriously. Alongside the 
truly brave and the silly who ride through those areas that scare /me/ 
silly are those who know what they are doing. It sounds like you do.

While riding with and in traffic is always risky business, there are 
degrees of riskiness, and intersections like this one are riskier than 
many other places where cages and bicycles mix. To my mind, such places 
are essentially combat zones where only the alert, hardened, and trained 
rider can survive; and if it is a war there then either the bike lane 
should be removed so civilians don't wander into that meat grinder by 
accident, or new signage should be added describing the area as a 
conflict-level intersection.

-- 
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott


On 3/26/2008 12:54 AM Tom Lettington wrote:

> I should have added to my "faint of heart" comment that graduates of 
> a Bike Ed course are seriously better equipped to handle such 
> situations.  While this area presents some challenges, as an LCI and 
> grad of Road I and Road II (thanks Kerry) I feel equipped to 
> negotiate that area safely --  and I don't consider myself 
> "sillly".  I didn't get to be a 70 year old cyclist by behaving recklessly.
> 
>     - Tom
> 
> At 10:55 AM 3/25/2008, Mike Elliott wrote:
> 
>> On 3/25/2008 10:26 AM Tom Lettington wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Riding in this area of heavy traffic and high speed is not for the
>>> faint of heart.
>> My hat is off to all of you who ride in such conditions. Truly brave . .
>> . or just darn silly.
>>
>> --
>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>> Carlsbad
>>
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