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Filtering Through Stopped Traffic Is a Skill With Rules of Its Own
Moving past queuing vehicles is where a bicycle saves most of its time and where the most avoidable conflicts happen.
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Traffic, visibility, road position and how to be predictable to a driver.
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Tram Rails, Drain Covers and the Surfaces That Steal a Front Wheel
Most single-bicycle falls in cities involve a surface rather than a vehicle. The dangerous ones share a shape and a moment.
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Buses Are the Vehicle Riders Most Often Misread
A bus stops where you least expect it, pulls out into your line and hides everything happening in front of it. All three are…
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Where You Look Decides More Than What You See
A bicycle goes roughly where the rider is looking. That is useful when you are looking at the gap and unhelpful when you are…
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Emergency Braking Is a Weight Transfer Problem
The limit on how fast a bicycle stops is not the brakes. It is the point at which the rear wheel lifts or the front tyre lets go.
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Headphones Change What You Can Hear Coming
Hearing is the sense that covers the space behind you. What you lose by covering your ears depends heavily on what you replace it…
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A Near Miss Is Information, Not Just a Bad Moment
The incidents that leave no mark are the ones that outnumber everything else. Treated as data rather than adrenaline, they change…
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Shared Paths Need a Different Set of Habits
A path away from traffic removes one problem and introduces another. People on foot do not have mirrors, indicators or any…
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Overtaking Distance Is About Turbulence as Much as Space
A vehicle passing close does more than frighten you. It drags air away from one side of you and then pushes it back, and both…