I was waiting to make a left hand turn this morning, and a car passed to the right. I could smell that they were driving with the emergency brake on…

This is not the first time that I’ve been able to diagnose a problem that a car had from my bicycle. The people next to vehicles probably notice the noisy bearings and other loud or odiferous maintenance issues before the people inside high-end-hermetically-sealed-sound-proof-vehicles notice.  Perhaps bicyclists and over-stressed drivers would get along better if we could actually communicate these things in a helpful and kind way? I don’t really know how to do it without  yelling or pointing and waving like some kind of freak, so I mostly don’t share.