Bicycles in Japan

As I said in the previous post, bicycles in Japan are very common. Due to the high cost of gas, insurance and parking fees many people in Tokyo don't own a car. Instead they have bicycles that they use for shopping and taking their kids to school. You'd think with such a large amount of bikes on the rode people would know how to ride their bikes. But that is sooo not the case. In America when there are multiple bikes on the rode and they come upon a narrow pass or they have to let someone pass by the riders go single file so that no one crashes. It's an unwritten rule, one that doesn't need to be explained because, well because it's COMMON SENSE. This does not exist here. If you need to pass a group of bikes here, well strap on a helmet and LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!! cause someone is probably going to either run into someone else or have an extremely near miss. Rich warned me about it...I didn't believe him until I went riding on my own. In the end you end up getting use to it and can avoid possible pitfalls.