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 PP> obsession, about being
 PP> hit from behind, so it's possible some ride the 
 PP> wrong way in a mistaken
 PP> belief that if they can see it coming, they can avoid it. The above
 PP> story is a good counter-example to this kind of 
 PP> thinking. I suspect the
 PP> reason most worry over getting hit from behind is that cyclists are
 PP> overtaking many times by motor vehicles - with no 
 PP> "cocoon" of steel and
 PP> glass in between ones body and the offending car. 
 PP> Funny, but I no longer
 PP> flinch at a car or truck the passes very close, except when it then
 PP> start moving quickly back to the right.
Egzackly! I just act as if I belong there (which, of course, I do!), and keep 
on riding within the law, and I don't have any trouble at all, except for the 
occasional "bubba" driving along drinking beer, thinking what fun it'd be to 
scare shit out of a cyclist. But those are very rare, even though I ride in a 
rural area in S.E. Texas.
Dave
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