When I ride to work in the morning at leave at 0430 am I never have close calls. Then again there is usually no one out and it is still dark. When I ride home form work at 2:00 p.m. even though their is LOTS of traffic I usually do not have many close calls, maybe one a week. However...when I worked the night shift last week I rode home at 0700 am and I had some horrible close calls! Three in one 2 hr ride. I could not believe how many people had lost their minds going to work iin the morning. Needless to say I will not be doing that again anytime soon, I will be sticking with my early morning ride while it's still dark.