lane share
on the way home from hiking in calaveras for the beautiful and talented alisa's birthday, we took the road less traveled. it was a twisty turny often one lane thing. quite popular with the bicycle crowd. i'm real big on people cooperating and sharing a commonly held resource. like the road. so we waited patiently for safe opportunities to pass the small groups. and they generally returned the favor by signaling and/or shifting to single file from two abreast. except for one group. the largest. they seemed to think they owned the road. which i thought was kinda strange. "share the road" is a two way street. so to speak. if you want motorists to share the road, then you bicycle folks gotta share it too. i suppose it might be safer in a big pack like that. cars have to give you more room when they pass. maybe for the outside riders. definitely for the inside riders. on the other hand, they risk inciting road rage like what happened in australia recently. some a-hole passed an obnoxious group of 50 fast moving professional level cyclists, cut in front, and slammed on the brakes. wiping out the entire lot. fortunately the following lorry was paying attention and managed to not lose control and kill anyone. sheehs folks. grow some brain cells.