The Safe Cyclist's Guide to Playing in Traffic: Bike Safety Blogs & Websites

Why You Need to Pay Attention

In a city like Boston, filled with top students attending the best universities in the world, multitasking is de rigeur. But you can't multitask while riding a bike in traffic. If you do, you're asking for it: paralysis, death, amputation. Every day, while on my bike, I see people riding among cars, staring straight ahead, paying almost no attention to what's going on around them. No wonder, then, that the news has so many reports of dead and maimed city cyclists.

You think you're smart? Think again. You're not riding smart unless you're paying attention: to this article...and to the streets on which you ride.