-=> Quoting Vern Faulkner to Doug Carter <=-
 VF> Commuter/rec with an eye to running one particular off-road mtn-bike
 VF> race next year, and doing some touring.
 
 VF> No - however, I am an experienced driver, and a product of young
 VF> driver's many,many moons ago. As a driver, I am aware of what stupid
 VF> things cyclists can do, and avoid them. I tread myself much the same
 VF> way on the bike. 
That's a good basis... although, I know lots of people who think that...
and (no offence) I wouldn't get in the same car with them... cycling tends
to be self- correcting most times...
 DC> I learned that... as well as a whole raft of new things. A real good 
dea
 VF> Such as?
You had to ask didn't you... mostly I found that I was doing things 
easonably
well...  Let's see...   Small details I had escaped... about law, new
technology, technique, etc.
This was CanBike II, the urban commuter/survival course...
I first found out about Camelbacks there, a godsend idea...
Did you know WHY the vehicle on the right has 'right-of-way' at an 
ncontrolle
intersection?  Did you know WHY it is bad form to pull over and wait for
traffic lights by pole leaning, or even to put your right foot up on the 
urb.
instead of waiting in the line?  Do you ever pull over to the left side of 
he
lane when waiting for lights, so the cars can make right turns (where legal)
and not get overly frustrated by cyclists?  Did you ever learn the correct
way to make a max stop... I knew the theory, but never dreamed just how fast
you can make a bike stop short of hitting something fixed... and so on and so
on...
NOT everyone needs CanBike II  of course... but the idea is to find someone
who truly knows how...
Did you know that you can get PAID to teach cycling courses?  That was an
eye opener?
Doug   now in Vernon BC not Toronto.
 
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