{"id":759,"date":"2010-06-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2010\/06\/03\/ding-a-ling-a-heavenly-sound\/"},"modified":"2010-06-03T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:00:00","slug":"ding-a-ling-a-heavenly-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/03\/ding-a-ling-a-heavenly-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Ding-a-Ling, a Heavenly Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_9-coSRlRBkE\/TAWW4--hNKI\/AAAAAAAAAFI\/QUNN-kIA2UM\/s1600\/P1030043.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_9-coSRlRBkE\/TAWW4--hNKI\/AAAAAAAAAFI\/QUNN-kIA2UM\/s200\/P1030043.JPG\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As cyclists, we hear plenty about motorist-bicyclist friction, possibly because one-ton hunks of metal hurtling around us seem like the greatest threat to our safety. In reality, bicyclist-motorist collisions comprise a mere 17% of all bicycle crashes. The largest cause, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/index.php\">League of American Bicyclists<\/a>, chalk 50% of all crashes up to operator error. We are perfectly capable of bringing ourselves to the ground all on our lonesome. The final 33% of crashes cover everything else: Bicyclists hitting (or being hit by) animals, other bicyclists, or something other than a car.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s this last category that interests me, since during Bike to Work Month, the number of bicyclists on the road &#8212; and thus the likelihood of colliding with another bicyclist &#8212; increased dramatically. This means that lots of people who normally only ride on weekends hop in the saddle during normal commuting hours and start working on logging those miles.<\/p>\n<p>What did this wonderful increase in cycling mean for me personally? More than anything else, I experienced a dramatic increase in stealth passing, usually by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicola.net\/2010\/03\/30\/slow-down-bike-path-racer\/\">bike path racers<\/a>. Innumerable times on my commute, I would be blithely pedaling along and suddenly find another cyclist next to me, often much closer than was safe, ghosting by with nary a word or ding-a-ling. Not only did this discourtesy irritate me, it endangered me unnecessarily. <\/p>\n<p>I love to see more people bicycling, and I dream one day of living in a society where nobody bats an eye at biking for transportation because it&#8217;s as normal as driving is right now. But I hope that when that day comes &#8212; and you can be sure it will come &#8212; it comes with a good dollop of on-bike courtesy, too. Let&#8217;s start making that dream a reality: take a moment to politely call &#8220;On your left&#8221; or ding a bell next time you pass somebody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cyclists, we hear plenty about motorist-bicyclist friction, possibly because one-ton hunks of metal hurtling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,19,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-culture","category-commuting","category-bike-gear-maintenance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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