Originally Posted by DrIsotope

If I rode a bike as if I were in a car, I'd probably get killed in the first 30 minutes. I forget that not everyone has traffic blasting past them at +60mph. For every mile of bike lane we've got, there's two miles of shoulderless, crumbling pavement with a posted speed limit of 50mph.

By approach and behavior to cycling is almost diametrically opposed to that when I'm driving.