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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
I won't ride bicycles on roads with cars for the same reason I won't ride motorcycles here, I don't want to put my life into the hands of bad drivers. It's awful that you can do everything right as a rider but still end up dead because some jackass is drunk or not paying attention. Johnny and Matthew were hit only a few kilometers from where they grew up, they had probably biked that route countless times as kids. Didn't matter in the end how experienced they were though because of one selfish prick in his murder wagon
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The highway that runs by my place, but it's just one lane each direction and it's 100 kph. A lot of the traffic is semis (less with the Ring Road now but still...) or other heavy vehicles and of course the rest are mostly pickups or SUVs. The shoulders are very wide and have a rumble strip. There's a ton of cyclists because it's a nice ride from Calgary to Bragg Creek. And I think it's not a matter of if, but when, some cyclist gets killed.