Brave new world
When one pays attention one notices patterns. One pattern right now is a groundswell toward in-person engagement: Run clubs. Chess clubs. Cycling groups. Some people wanting to return to the office (even in WFH San Francisco). People are craving human interaction. That desire for human engagement parallels the geometric increases in artificial intelligence. As machines take on more of what humans used to do, we’re turning toward one another.
With that as a backdrop we explore the landscape of club and group rides. Want to expand your horizons, your endurance, and your skills while making some new friends? In-person is back! We also feature our sponsorship work. Great events like the Grasshopper Adventure Series, Velo Promo’s road races and criteriums, Fat Cake Club’s rolls around town, and our own Supermarket Street Sweep require financial support to be successful. A side benefit? Getting to ride at these fantastic events ourselves.
On the adventure front we revisit the Tioga Pass and Glacier Point Roads, hopefully with enough time to put them on your radar for their all-too-brief car-free days. And while this issue focuses on people coming together, there are some situations where we want to avoid that. We discuss one of the five leading cycling collisions, the left cross, and how to do one’s best to evade it.
Because people sometimes ask us about our day jobs, we’re including a recent case where we helped a commuter who was hit and initially blamed for causing the crash. Hopefully, you and yours never need us. But you can ride with confidence knowing that should something happen, we’re here.
Hoping you keep the rubber side down,
Miles B. Cooper, Maryanne B. Cooper, Bob Mionske,
and everyone at Bicycle Law
Photo: Pamela Ocampo / @pamo.gif
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