—Steve Mitchell, Lake Forest, Illinois No. Imagine yourself on a motorcycle, instead. Would you feel safer riding against the traffic? And when you ride against traffic, your closing speed with an approaching car is additive. (Say you’re riding at 15 mph, and a car is heading toward you at 30 mph; your closing speed is 45 mph.) Regardless, statistics show that wrong-way (riding against traffic) bicyclists are several times as likely to get hit by a car as right-way (riding with traffic) cyclists.
