Bicycle Board Members,
Of course this is a ripe banana. Please give me
your
feedback on the message below that I want to sent the WV’s first
Lady. (How do you address WV’s first Lady? Hey, Gayle!?)
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Dear First Lady,
I am sorry about your bicycle crash and hope your injuries
are truly minor and heal quickly. I don’t know the details but I do
know that in many of these crashes the motorist says, “I didn’t
even see her!”
The League of American Bicyclists’ Road I course
teaches cyclists to maximize their visibility and predictability. You
can
review the LAB Bicycle Education program at http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/education/.
I would like to teach you the Road I course. The LAB BikeEd
program is the only national bicyclist education program and I am one
of West
Virginia’s 3 instructors certified by the LAB to teach it. I am
also Chairman of the Morgantown Municipal Bicycle Board which advises
the
Morgantown Traffic Commission, City Engineer and City Manager.
Of course, I have a personal agenda here. I’m
hoping that once you master Road I knowledge and skills, you’ll share
them with other cyclists as well as motorists and help make West
Virginia safer
for cyclists to bicycle anywhere, anytime for any reason.
Frank Gmeindl
Cyclists fare best when they act and are
treated as
drivers of vehicles