Sigh.
I stopped motion at 2:54 in this video.
The embedded image in the video is speeded up so you can’t get a good look at what it shows, but if you stop at the right place, you’ll see this. Check out the the upper left.
Throttle expert clueless about dooring.
Riding in the door zone at the speed which can be maintained on an e-bike — typical urban motorcycle speed! — is even more dangerous than at typical pedal-powered speeds. A Motorcycle Safety Foundation instructor’s hair would turn gray looking at this. Is the best advice different because someone is riding a machine with pedals and a motor, as opposed to only a motor? Maybe I should recuse myself from the discussion, as my own hair has already turned gray, and I ride machines with only pedals? Well, no, because I have reached gray-hair status without being doored.
Why do people endanger themselves like this? “Because this is a bicycle and that is what bicyclists do”?
No, actually. The primal fear of being attacked from behind, and the incessant stream of misinformation embedded in the design of door-zone bike lanes, promote this behavior. This guy, fully adult, speaks confidently on one aspect of bicycling but is totally clueless about another in a way that could easily cost him his life. Sorry about that.
Scary! It’s incredible to me that the prejudice against vehicular cycling is so widespread and fervent, that it literally prevents word of safe practices getting out to even folks whose jobs revolve around cycling.