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Re: [RC] road riding- crazy drivers/ crazy rider :) - Barbara McCrary

You may be right, but I thought the CA DMV rules indicated that riders used the right side of the road. If someone has a handy DMV rule book and can look it up, let me know. I'm willing to stand corrected, if it is so. Of course, that was a LONG time ago and I don't ride on highways anymore. I don't even ride on our county road anymore. We have enough trails so we can get off the road, but we do have to cross it in some places. On weekends the "rice rocket" riders come down from the San Francisco Bay area and use our twisting, turning, occasionally steep county road as their private race course. We can hear them coming from miles away. We just don't ride there any more. I find this very inconsiderate, as our county road through the valley is also a residential road. They go through very fast, and there could be any one of the following on the road: children, on foot or horseback; cattle; hikers, runners or walkers; or a downed tree.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- From: "Winter, Randy or Cheryl" <cherylrandy@xxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] road riding- crazy drivers/ crazy rider :)



Barbara wrote, "I was on the right side of the highway, the proper side for
me to be riding on,"
I have thought when roadriding the saying is, "feet go with feet and
wheels go with wheels." Meaning bicycles travel the same way and on the
same side of the road as cars and walkers and horses go opposite traffic."
I don't want a vehicle coming up from behind me. I want to face cars so my
horse can see them coming. I can also look the drivers in the face and
gauge their intentions this way. Any other thoughts or those that know the
law, even though law and practicality don't always coincide.
Randy



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