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How to ride a bike in City Heights
There's more to visibility than a vest or lights. You can still be invisible with those. They help very little if at all during daylight hours and reflectors only help you be seen by drivers who have lights shining on you, which means that they won't help so much when you're approaching them from a cross street. The key to visibility is being where drivers are looking for traffic. That often means using the full lane like the driver of any other vehicle. Too many drivers only look for cars and do not think to look in bike lanes or on the edge for bikes. That's why we have sharrows and "bikes may use full lane" signs in so many places now. The places where those are installed are places where riding on the edge tends to make cyclists less visible to motorists or where lanes are too narrow for a bike and a car side by side within the lane. They are there to reinforce the exceptions in the far right rule specified by CVC 21202(a)(3) and (a)(4) to let people know that cyclists can (and should) use the full lane for their own safety. Those signs and sharrows are not installed in nearly enough places yet. Cyclists have the right to use the full lane whenever it's narrow enough to result in close passes (which most right lanes are) or when approaching any driveway, intersection or ramp or to avoid the door zone from parked cars or any other condition which makes it unsafe to ride far right.— May 25, 2016 11:45 a.m.
They only want safe places to ride
I've been riding on the road since 1971. I have 6 figure mileage experience and I ride according to the best safety practices of the top bicycle safety experts in the country. I feel pretty safe on the road. I don't have close calls when riding according to what I was taught. It's possible to ride safely when you ride your bicycle as if you were driving any other slow moving vehicle.— November 10, 2015 5:51 p.m.
They only want safe places to ride
For bicyclists who know enough to use the full lane in sharrows, those lanes are actually very safe -- safer than most bike lanes. Unfortunately, too many bicyclists do not know this. Unfortunately, too many drivers don't realize that bicyclists have the right to use the full lane in sharrows and most roads without sharrows as well. They then throw childish hissyfits when a bicyclist dares to use the full lane, because moving over to pass a bicyclist is too much for their childish delusions of entitlement.— November 10, 2015 5:50 p.m.
Marines warn bikers to stay off Miramar
Actually I was out there a few weeks ago and I encountered someone on a motorcycle. I was wondering if it was legal at the time. I suspected not.— July 26, 2015 9:17 p.m.
Hillcrest loves them some cars
People do shopping trips by bus or trolley all the time. Your guesses indicate that you haven't ridden public transit much, if at all. It's also possible to carry stuff on a bike. Some bikes are even designed for this like cargo bikes which can carry a lot of groceries.— June 3, 2015 1:20 p.m.
Bicycle trap
Like I said, the funding came through a local Oceanside group. Their grant. Their choice of venue. If you really care about it, see if you can work on getting a program closer to the center part of the county.— April 21, 2015 3:30 p.m.
Bicycle trap
I've got 6 figure mileage experience riding on the road since 1971. I'm still alive. You really don't know a thing about bike safety. I am a League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructor. I know how to ride safely in traffic. I ride on major roads all the time. I actually prefer them because they tend to have multiple lanes which makes it easier for motorists to move over to pass me. I'm not "interpreting" CVC 21200(a). It clearly says that bicyclists have the same right to the road as motorists do. You need to learn the actual law rather than the imaginary law that you wish for. You also need to learn how to move over to pass bicyclists with at least 3 feet of clearance as required by CVC 21760.— April 20, 2015 9:02 p.m.
Bicycle trap
Major thoroughfares have a tendency to have multiple lanes. Is the left lane broken? In any case, state law prohibits local governments from banning bicycles on roads other than controlled access highways (like freeways). Bicyclists have a right to the road. Get over it. It's really not that tough to move over to pass. You do not own the road.— April 20, 2015 8:16 p.m.
Bicycle trap
My "interpretation" of the vehicle code? The vehicle code is straight forward and plain. CVC 21200. (a) A person riding a bicycle or operating a pedicab upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this division, including, but not limited to, provisions concerning driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages or drugs, and by Division 10 (commencing with Section 20000), Section 27400, Division 16.7 (commencing with Section 39000), Division 17 (commencing with Section 40000.1), and Division 18 (commencing with Section 42000), except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application. I have been riding on the road since 1971 and I have 6 figure mileage experience. I'm still alive. I ride on busy roads all the time. How about if you stopped giving advice on subjects that you know nothing about? Bicyclists have as much right to the road as motorists do. That's the law. That's always been the law, since there have been road laws, since before the California Vehicle Code was created. How about you just move over to pass bicycles at a safe distance of at least 3 feet as required by CVC 21760?— April 20, 2015 8:14 p.m.
Bicycle trap
It's really not that difficult to travel to Oceanside to take the class. It's taught in two parts. The first part is classroom. You don't even need a bike for that. The second is on the road. You need a bike for that. The classes are in Oceanside because the local advocacy group lobbied for and received funding from SANDAG to support the program.— April 20, 2015 10:18 a.m.