Relax, it's not the end of the world!!

[DeniseGoldberg]

The vehicle code in all 50 states considers a bicycle to be a vehicle - which means from a legal standpoint you need to ride on the correct side of the road, and that it is illegal to ride the wrong way on a one way street.

But really, legal or not, it's way more important that you act like a vehicle from a safety standpoint. Drivers of motorized vehicles and other cycylists encountering you heading in their direction on the wrong side of the road have no idea how you are going to react when you see them. Will you swerve to the right? To the left?

You titled this post "it's not the end of the world", yet riding on the wrong side of the road or in the wrong direction is an accident waiting to happen. And it could very well be the end of the world for the cyclist riding on the wrong side of the road.

--- Denise