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meaning it is more of an introduction, as each cyclist deals with different circumstances on the given commute. To understand that you are a vehicle, by law a vehicle, not a pedestrian on wheels, or on a toy. Driving in traffic is the best way to be safe and to get where you need to go with your bike. The reward a heavier wallet, because you are saving money that otherwise would go to gas. More and more cities are establishing an infrastructure for bicycling, that is well and good, though for now driving as a vehicle is the best way to be safe. Just as learning to put together a webpage you start with the basics, simple tags to produce the format of the document, in a text file. On a bike you learn by riding, by using the recommended hand signals for turning right, left and the such. Each hand signal is quite simple, usually just using your right or left arm to provide an indication of which direction you expect to go. For example to turn your left you put your left arm straight out, thus indicating you are going to take a left turn. The same for a right turn, putting your right arm out showing your expected route of travel. If you are on a busier road, and most certainly you will deal with some, you can follow the same procedure with a slight modification. You are taking a left turn and the road is busy, so angling the arm down indicates that the car should slow down, this is very important on busy or fast roads. As a bicycle does not have turn signals there are only two ways to indicate your direction of travel. First it is the simple standby of using your arm for left of right and left and down or right and down for slow. The other way is simply to turn your head in the direction of travel, often this is sufficient but I would strongly suggest you use the hand signals at least in the beginning. Besides all of these options are reliant on your ability to keep your direction of travel even when you turn your head. We as people, often use the head to turn and find ourselves going that direction, to remedy this requires some practice on a local playground, or a side road. Once you perfect that you are more able to keep the direction of travel when you are indicating to the other vehicles which way you want to go.

In closing, bicycling safely in a city can be quite simple as understanding and riding as a vehicle using turn signals and remaining predictable. That is how traffic travels smoothly, by driving just as any other vehicle will, enabling each vehicle

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