BFC STEVE: MY RIDE WITH CHEROKEE SCHILL

[B' Spokes: I try to be a polite cyclist by going out of my way to find routes where I will be the least bother to motorists but once and a while I have to take the lane on a car centric street, not all that different from Cherokee Schill. Well OK most of the time when I do it, it's a much shorter distance and not every day but still I would love to see LAB support cyclists right to use public roads. I sort of understand why they have not done so in the past (while I don't know for sure this is my guess) in advocacy circles there is such a thing as the "unsympathetic character" so if you have an arrogant cyclist who thinks they own the road...

Gawd, that is such a loaded summary, it is a lot like "Have you stopped betting your wife?", trying to defend that just gets you deeper into trouble. My point here is it is not the "unsympathetic character" that is at issue here but the "unsympathetic framework" that we are forced to work our way out of that is the issue. And that framework has to go! And it would be lovely if LAB would finally take up cyclists right to use the public roadway. So if you know someone at LAB please mention politely that you would love to see LAB involved in this case.

In this article it goes into someones first time riding this road and their trials in trying to be a polite cyclist on the return trip.]
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by Steve Clark, Bike League

I used to think I was about as fearless and empowered as any cyclist out there. Then I rode with Cherokee Schill.
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<a href="http://bikeleague.org/content/bfc-steve-my-ride-cherokee-schill">http://bikeleague.org/content/bfc-steve-my-ride-cherokee-schill</a>;