Coming to the bicycle from motorcycle has simply planted, indelibly, the stamp of "vehicle" on my riding. I'll be sitting there at the red light (with cars there) while the cyclist across the street does the stop, check, and proceed because no, there isn't any traffic. I'm reasonably sure that if I hadn't had the years on the motorcycle in between the 'just riding around' on the bike that I'd have that "out of the mainstream" approach.
I also developed habits for perceiving when I'd been seen that come in handy - and perhaps most of all, got used to riding in the cold. Bicycles are infernos compared to motorcycles - except for those muffler burns...
When I drive (pretty rarely) I do, also, get this weird idea that I'm invisible, especially at four-way stops. I want to wave everybody else through![]()



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