Getting there as fast, safely

I love biking. I love getting from place to place on my bike. I love being able to get to work, daycare, home, etc all by bike. I encourage others to bike.

I just don't encourage them to get into my way.

"In my way" is defined as anyone going slower than I want to go that day, and in a wandering "la la la... Oh! Something shinny!" kind of way. If you're biking slowly, that's cool. Just be safe about it and allow others to pass.

Since they put in the bike lane on one short section of street downtown, there seem to be a lot more people biking downtown. Most are fine, but you have some clueless people. To be fair I'm pretty sure that the people would be clueless in their cars too, but that's a different story. They've closed a tiny part of the bike lane for some construction work and today I saw 4 bikers that were ahead of me deal with it. All poorly. They didn't anticipate that they'd have to bike around the closure nor did they enter into traffic well. If a car has to jam on it's breaks as you try to "enter" the road at 90 degrees and instantly turn 90 degrees (again), going about 1 km/h, that's a problem. You're a problem and you're likely to get people hurt.

I like going fast on my bike, but I'm constantly playing through my head all the ways that I can get hurt. Not in a "I need to see a doctor and get some pills" kind of way (hopefully). More like a game of "Spot the Danger"™ where the winning prize is that you don't get hurt. Or dead. Finding myself dead would definitely be a downer on my day. I don't want that.

So, to review

1. Keep out of the way of people moving faster than you
2. Don't do stuff that will get anyone hurt
3. More people should bring me cookies

The greatest of these is # 3 cookies.