Originally Posted by
PatrickGSR94
That's not what I said. Not all bike racers commute, in fact most probably don't, around this area anyway. But frankly I've seen a LOT of racers and "roadie" cyclist do some of the stupidest stuff in traffic.
The large majority of cyclists who participate in CyclingSavvy courses are novice and beginner cyclists, and many of them afterwards say things like "wow I never knew I could do it that way, and it's so easy!" Are you going to sit there and dispute the fact that such a class imparts confidence in the participants? I can tell you first hand that it absolutely does.
No, you didn't say that... but racers do often take to the streets to work out... and thus DO encounter and deal with traffic... so they do gain traffic experience.
About the only cyclists that never gain traffic experience are the Sunday park riders and those that only do spin classes... otherwise, the longer you ride, and the further you go, the greater the likelihood that you deal with motor vehicle traffic.