Im really ambivalent about what happened in this video. Cycling is my preferred method of transportation. Ive never yet been doored. I assume that every door I pass can open at any time and wipe me out. Therefore, I slow down quite a bit when in a hazardous situation. The guy in this video likes to take changes as part of asserting his rights. Check out the way he shot through the pedestrians before the crash. The narrow path right before the crash and his insistence at traveling at a brisk pace were accidents waiting to happen. That he was wiped out by a door thrown into the bike lane angers me, people should be more careful opening car doors. On the other hand, almost all people who open car doors do it blindly. Its a fact of life, like the fact that the tides go in and out. Further, the consequences of riding fast through hazardous areas will be an injury suffered by the cyclist, not those who throw their doors open. Hence, my approach of riding very slowly in such zones, even though I would be legally entitled to go as fast as I want in the bike lane. Im sorry to see this guy wiped out, of course, but the video leaves me quite ambivalent about who was the victim. digg/video/what-it-looks-like-to-get-doored-while-biking
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:14:51 +0000
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