Five Layers of Bike Safety: Tying it All Together
This will be my last post on this blog. It was conceived in the early stages of the Covid pandemic, April 2020, in response to seeing so many new people out on bikes, so early in the season (for Maine). The goal was to provide basic should-know information to people who may be taking up biking for the first time as adults, or in a long time, or ever. I hope that it has accomplished that. I think that I have covered the basics now, and I'll wrap it all up with a concept known as the Five Layers of Bicycle Safety . This concept was developed by Dan Gutierrez , a bicycle safety educator in California. For this post, I will present each of his slides, with commentary by Mighk Wilson, another long-time bicycle educator, a transportation planner, lifelong cyclist, and co-creator of CyclingSavvy . The Five Layers of Bicycle Safety In Dan's words, "The important talking point about this diagram is that the layers are cumulative and build upon each other, with the first 4 to elim