Cool! I'm a writer and one of the characters I'm writing about rides a bike everywhere (struggling artist, would rather buy art supplies than gasoline). Where's a street that you would consider a likely place for her to get banged up and muddy, avoiding a (gd!) SUV that almost runs over her turning right or something? Some situation where she's clearly in the right but the vehicle hits her anyway? The kind of street where if you saw reference to it, you'd immediately think, "Oh yeah, that's Ann Arbor, I had to fight that all the time!"

I have a friend who lives in Ann Arbor and when I asked her that question, her response was (probably predictably) that the drivers have to watch out for those careless cyclists, yadda yadda yadda! She mentioned State Street as being near the U of M, and " Huron River Drive which is a beautiful, winding, narrow two lane road beloved by serious cyclists. It is my main way home (along with others) and cyclists tend to also think they own the road and ride two abreast. It is almost impossible to pass them even if they are in a single file because the road is so winding. On nice days it is particularly frustrating. "

Do you have anything to add to that?