text: I quit cycling in 2010.    Our area has two-lane 
  highways without shoulders.   I'm much safer now, and  
  I prefer hiking in the forest over being on roads.  
  
  Around 2000, I'd been hit by a truck which ran a red light 
  at an intersection.  The driver was old.  I went over the hood.  
  My shoulder was sore for a month.