RANTWICK's Cycling School: Train Tracks

About a month ago I posted some video of being passed too closely while crossing some train tracks. Thanks to some experimentation and some good advice on how to ride that section of my commute in the comments, I believe I have arrived at the best way to handle them.

Well before that, in the comments on a different video scenario regarding using the big streets and the controls offered by big intersections, my online friend Keri of Commute Orlando said I was "becoming quite the educator"! I thought that was pretty cool of her to say, and it has inspired me to educate some more, the RANTWICK way...

Despite the silly aspects of that video, it remains perfectly true that zigzagging hard and signaling to the cars behind me has made that crossing way less dicey. Thanks for your input on the other post, everyone.

Woot, Woot! Grrr... Ayeeee!

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Canadian Flashback

I would like to thank Saskboy for reminding me of and providing a link to the video below. This would have been at least a month ago, and I squirreled it away for use at a later date, which as it turns out, is today! At least a couple of generations of Canucks grew up with this little cartoon being played as filler on CBC and other stations... watching it makes me feel happy and old (read, nostalgic) all at once, and I figure others might like to feel that way too.

Hey, it's not one of my regular posting days! Log Driver's Waltz is being used as filler once again! Hurrah!

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