reducing fear when cycling?

Just behave like a motor vehicle, hold your line, all the usual stuff. I think it's to do with perception. London just scares some people.

+1

I'm on the OKR, plus the rest of it every day. Maybe a good way to explain it is to go with the traffic, hang out with the cars and be part of the flow for safety's sake, not a separate entity on the left.

The only time I've had a run in with a motorist was when I was filtering in the gutter with near stand still traffic, the position I put myself in was technically like undertaking I suppose? It's not natural for motorists to be passed on the left anyway.

I usually hang out in a fast prime with moving traffic, or on the outside when filtering.

But I suppose it does take some kind of experience, easier said than done and all that. Can't remember a definitive point when it all clicked and I got out of the gutter but friends still remind of the days when I even used to say "no way am I EVER riding a bike on the road, you must be bat shit".