Day 8 – Share the Road

This part of my bike trip isn’t going under the cut, because it’s really something that everybody, at least everybody that drives, needs to know.

Share the road.

It’s not just a motto, really, give bikers a good amount of space. They’re silently thanking you every time that you do.

By space, I mean that if you can pass the biker when there’s a car in the oncoming lane, you’re not giving enough. You should always give a biker AT LEAST four feet of space, preferably more.

And if there’s a car in the oncoming lane? Don’t try to just sneak past. Just wait for the car to pass, then give the biker space and move on. There’s no place that you’re going that’s so important that you have to put somebody’s life at risk.

I ride on roads with no shoulder, because that’s all I have available on my commute. And even where there is a shoulder, it’s often filthy. Next time you’re swearing at a biker who is eschewing what looks to you like a perfectly good shoulder, remember that she might be avoiding glass and debris.

( Day 8 – stupid semis )