Dan’s Blog

Biking home tonight, I got mildly doored. (”Dooring” occurs when someone in a parked car opens their door as you’re riding by on your bike, quickly halting the bike and launching the rider.) My dooring was mild, as I was able to get mostly clear of the door — upon seeing the door open, hitting the breaks and turning turned out to be more effective than my inarticulate yelling — and so wound up on the pavement with my bike about six feet past the door itself.

I’ve been biking in city traffic on and off for about 5 years now, and I guess I was just due. Thankfully I’d read the Transportation Alternatives Guide to Dooring (or Getting Doored) so I had some sense of what to do. Also, thankfully, I was wearing a helmet. Turns out that they really are important.