Dangerous cycling: the controversy continues

by Sierra on June 11, 2009 · Comments

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Regular readers of this journal know that I bike with my kids. A lot. In traffic.

This is a more controversial subject than I would ever have imagined. I have spent a lot of the past 24 hours discussing it politely.

At the end of all that polite discussion, I took my five-year-old to pick up our farm share in the bike trailer.

As usual, we got heckled on our way to the Growing Center by some fool who felt the need to shout “That is SO dangerous” at us.

This time, that fool was a ten-year-old kid riding a skateboard down the middle of the street, going the wrong way on a one-way street, with no helmet or pads. Seriously.

I laughed so hard I might have fallen off my bike if I were a less skilled rider.

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  1. Go play in traffic: Bicycle Safety on Busy Roads
  2. Please do not shout at my bicycle
  3. Biking with kids: what bike to choose
  4. Cycling article up on Babble
  5. Good news, bad news

  • Oh man. It IS dangerous, at least when you include the commentary you get: I laughed so hard I think I sprained something.
  • Kid snark fail.
  • Rich Wilson
    I hate to say it, but you do have a sarcasm hat (helmet)? Ok, just had to get that possibility out of the way. 'cause anything else, and I'm going to have to put pads on for the fall.
  • Cos
    Glad I'm reading this when I'm not somewhere I can easily fall off :)
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