I recently had a new experience that opened my eyes to the way novice cyclists must feel when they first start out. Traffic can be scary, especially when it’s fast moving and you’re in the middle of it.
Honolulu has several nice bike paths and many roads with bike lanes. However, they are completely disjointed, with a couple miles here or there and stretches of unfriendly roads in between. I normally can hold my own keeping up with traffic through these stretches (a fast Schwinn Paramount as a commuter certainly helps). However, a couple things came together this fall that put me in the slow lane.