I have been an avid mountain biker for more than 15 years. In the last two years I have taken up road biking as a way to get in more mileage. Mountain biking takes a good part of the day to load the car up and drive to my local trails. Road biking I can leave my driveway and hit some nice terrain in Homewood and surrounding areas.
There is a love/hate relationship that everyone seems to have with bikers. Everyone knows that biking is good for the body and good for the environment. Drivers just don’t want them to be in front of their car as they are driving home or doing errands. And as bikers we don’t help things by hogging the road and running stop signs. Unfortunately for drivers things are not going to get better. With rising fuels prices we are already starting to see more and more bikers on the roads. And not just the amateur road bikers but familys with small kids and trailer.
Apollo Gonzales of the Switchboard blog wrote a nice piece entitles “On cycling and a loss.” It brings up the problems that are presented when more and more people hit the road on their bicycles. I think even drivers are looking to get more drivers off the road but as Gonzales said “One less driver on the road doesn’t necessarily mean one less person on the road.”
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