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Bike Safety

A Perspective on Bike Safety, After a Crash

October 12, 2010

Everyone who bikes regularly in traffic has considered the possibility and consequences of a crash. For many cyclists, it’s their biggest fear and for some it prevents them from riding on the road at all. This, despite the fact that you’re more likely to be involved in a crash in an automobile than on a [...]

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Teaching Road Safety to Biking Kids; Go By Bike Episode 47

August 30, 2010

Teaching Kids to Ride Over the weekend, I had a great opportunity to work with some middle school aged kids and their parents. The kids wanted to ride their bikes to middle school and we spent a couple hours talking and practicing some road safety skills. I had a great time seeing these young people [...]

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Bike safety vs. Bike fun. Go By Bike Episode 43

July 29, 2010

Is biking at the gym better than biking on the street? In a recent copy of our local paper, the Chapel Hill News, I read a column about a woman who biked on a stationary bike at the gym while imagining she was a kid riding on the street. Why didn’t she actually ride on [...]

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Beware the Road Surface (safety tip) – Go By Bike Episode 26

May 26, 2010

For safe riding, be sure to watch the road surface Most bicycle accidents are not caused by collisions with cars, they are caused by rider error. This is a good thing because it means if we learn more about riding and get better at it, we minimize our risks and increase our safety on the [...]

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Ride Big, safety tip – Go By Bike Episode 21

May 14, 2010

If you aren’t riding BIG, you aren’t as safe as you could be Riding in traffic is often un-nerving for bikers, and this is probably one of the biggest reasons people don’t bike. Fortunately, we can minimize our risks by changing our riding styles. Riding Big is one of these behaviors and it is often [...]

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