On a thread on the BJ Forum on the 19th, Tinker Suarez was doored while cycling along at 22mph on a busy street. Thankfully he's okay.
Most important, best wishes for a successful recovery and Tinker gett'n back to doing what he loves.
Now watch me get "doored" for this comment:  I was going to post this to the thread but that takes away from the thread intent. Sooooooooooo Safety wise, nobody should be doing 22 mph given those conditions (semi busy 4 lane, parking on the side, etc.) . At 22mph on a bike ye gots no time to react to a quick opening door, someone running out from between parked cars, a dog popping out, etc IMHO.
There's some places where ya gots to bike to the conditions. City cycling is dangerous enough...at 22mph you're inviting a problem.
Anyone reading this, nope I'm not being insensitve to Tinker's plight...but at the same time me thinks him cycling at 22 mph on what looks like a busy street with lots of cars on the side wasn't the way he shoulda been cycling.
Bike not to die........and that means cycling with a lot of common sense.
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  I never even thought about that side of the story Joe. You're right. Thanks for waking up my brain.
posted by KrateKraig on
12/19/2008
at 11:12:05 AM
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 The sad thing is that some of us feel that we cannot post such things in the forum anymore - at least not me. The nice thing about the bike blogs is that it gives us a "safer" place to post our thoughts, opinions, and creative works. I have lost all desire to post my photos in the main forum based on the responses I got there.
posted by Kin on
12/19/2008
at 11:20:31 AM
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