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From: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: left turns
Message-ID: <5960@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 14:06:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 14:06:36 1985
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Reply-To: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP (Richard Gillespie)
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Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

>I'm kinda new to this, so please bear with me...when riding in this area
>it sometimes becomes useful to turn left (suprised?).
> ...
>							 ...  Anyway, what 
>is the general consensus as to how to approach this problem?
>-- 
>Ken Shoemaker, 386 Design Team, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.

I do one of two things depending on the amount of traffic in the area.
If traffic is heavy I ride through the intersection on the right, and
stop on the other side. I then pick up the bike and turn it 90 degrees
so that I am facing in the direction I want to go (the left turn).
If traffic is *really* light then I simply zip over to the left run lane
(if there is one, if not then I do the previous) and make a "regular"
left turn. You have to be careful with this because you are virtually
invisible to car drivers.
-- 
   Rick Gillespie
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