Interstates
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From: Indiana
Interstats statistically and just about any other way you'd care to look at it will be safer per mile than any other type of roadway assuming you are travelling with the flow of traffic and paying attention. The one thing I didn't see mentioned was the flow of traffic issue. If you are riding appreciably slower than surrounding traffic that can put you at increased risk even out in the middle of nowhere.
The one time and place I do try to avoid slabs is in metro areas during rush hours.
The one time and place I do try to avoid slabs is in metro areas during rush hours.
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From: Spring, Tx
Another problem that is common to a lot of states.. crap blowin out of peoples trucks, boats on trailers and cars... people just don't think when their flyin down the freeway with a mattress on the roof of their car, held on with twine.... pickup trucks with nothing holding the contents of the bed down etc....
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Its difficult trying to get used to riding in traffic on a highway. I know it took me a while. I am now riding with a friend who just got a bike and I cringe everytime we get on the highway because he just goes too slow. Another experienced buddy of mine rode with us the other day and he was pretty hot after a day following my slower buddy and watching the traffic dart around us. Yet how do you get someone used to that kind of riding?
Beary
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Where I live it seems to be ladders or mattresses and I don't particularly want to hit either one.
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From: On a hill among the hills, PA
Those landscaper trailers are a pain too, the open ones, had a weed eater come flyin off one spinnin down the lane... yeeehaw!
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I think it was mentioned in the context of riding in the left lane a little faster than the traffic, but yes you are certainly right that being appreciably slower than the surrounding traffic is very dangerous.
Its difficult trying to get used to riding in traffic on a highway. I know it took me a while. I am now riding with a friend who just got a bike and I cringe everytime we get on the highway because he just goes too slow. Another experienced buddy of mine rode with us the other day and he was pretty hot after a day following my slower buddy and watching the traffic dart around us. Yet how do you get someone used to that kind of riding?
Beary
Its difficult trying to get used to riding in traffic on a highway. I know it took me a while. I am now riding with a friend who just got a bike and I cringe everytime we get on the highway because he just goes too slow. Another experienced buddy of mine rode with us the other day and he was pretty hot after a day following my slower buddy and watching the traffic dart around us. Yet how do you get someone used to that kind of riding?
Beary
your buddy should understand this guy is new and needs some time to adjust.
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