Google Santa Monica Farmers Market crash and Porto Alegre Critical Mass crash. They are just two examples of escalating to the point of violence. Ten years after drunk driving we had to deal with distracted driving by phone (both take your mind off driving, the first for the whole trip, the second, for the duration of…

The screwdriver is screwing with them during the pass -punitive, not prevention. The pool noodle prevents it from happening because it’s big and harmless. It’s Gandhi Approved.

Every traveller (even without a vehicle) has what is called a dynamic envelope. Think of a car backing out of a driveway so narow they need to pull in the mirrors. They need to slow down to reduce the size of their dynamic envelope so they don’t hit anything. Cyclists need a wide enough dynamic envelope to steer to…

The silliness of the pool noodle is its advantage. How do you get angry against a pool noodle? It does happen but these drivers would get angry at a cyclist anyway. Better they get angry at the noodle getting in the way than at the cyclist only. Better a chewed up noodle than a chewed up cyclist.

There are four reasons for doing a close pass. 1) The Inattention Pass, You don’t notice the cyclist because you are not paying attention to your surroundings. 2) The Naive Pass, You don’t realize how serious and dangerous it is to pass so closely. 3) The Fly Past, like a jet buzzing over a group of people just for…