| Re: Entering the queue at a stop sign
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:20:50 +0000, Rick Onanian wrote:
> My question: Going straight when there's a right-turn-only lane. This is a
> situation where I feel both danger and my slowing powered-vehicle drivers.
> Consider:
> -that I may have to violate the right-turn-only lane, which is dangerous
> in two ways. One, traffic expects me to turn right. Two, oncoming traffic
> visibility is often blocked by a vehicle turning left.
> -if I don't do that, I have to cross that right-turn-only lane, into the
> straight/left-turn lane. This means merging into potentially much faster
> vehicular traffic, and then forcing them to wait behind.
You need to ride in the right-most lane that is consistent with your
direction of travel. If you slow someone down a bit, that is far better
than getting hit by someone turning right because you were going straight
in a right-turn lane.
Use the lanes like a vehicle -- you are riding one.
>
> Then there's the issue of my terrible clipless pedals that I can never
> seem to get into. Now I'm holding up traffic AND embarassing myself. Gotta
> get something better than Wellgo R4; maybe something in an SPD, or for
> ultra- cool looks, egg beaters or m2Racer Orbs...
Side issue. I did this with double toe straps and cleats, on a fixed
gear. Don't let clipping in get in the way of negotiating traffic.
--
David L. Johnson
__o | "What am I on? I'm on my bike, six hours a day, busting my ass.
_`\(,_ | What are you on?" --Lance Armstrong
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