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Florida Bicycling Street Smarts

This compact tutorial, available as a 48-page manual as well as in this online version, can increase your safety and confidence while bicycling on any road, whether you are a beginner or an expert. You'll have more fun and feel better about riding, be it for pleasure, fitness or transportation. Print copies are available from the Florida Department of Transportation and the Florida Bicycle Association.

This manual explains safe bicycling techniques on public roads and streets, but it's up to you to apply them appropriately. Users of this manual assume full responsibility for their own actions and safety.

Florida Bicycling Street Smarts incorporates Bicycling Street Smarts, a copyright-protected publication.

Bicycling Street Smarts is copyright © 1988, 2001, Rodale Inc. and published by Rubel BikeMaps under license from Rodale Inc. All rights reserved. No part of the Internet posting or print version may be reproduced in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including information storage and retrieval systems, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law; by a reviewer quoting brief passages; or by permission in writing from Rubel BikeMaps.

Bicycling Street Smarts is an updated and revised edition of Street Smarts, originally published by Bicycling Magazine, a publication of Rodale, Inc. of Emmaus, PA, USA. By granting permission for this publication, Rodale supports the education and safety of bicyclists. For more information or to subscribe to BICYCLING, please call 800-666-2806 or write to:

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Introduction