In March, New Yorker columnist John Cassidy blogged about the city’s new bike lanes. He was annoyed that they made it harder for him to drive his Jaguar around Manhattan, and bemoaned the city’s bicyclists as a privileged, insular aristocracy, a “faddist minority intent on foisting its bipedalist…
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4th & South to the Art Museum to home in 15 minutes. Black girl, blue bike. It’s prolly me.
View Larger this reminds me of biking Kelly Drive here in Philly with my dad each summer as a kid and how we’d always have to pick the gnats out of our eyelids.
Florida summer is: a 40-minute bike ride resulting in this many bugs on me. and who knows however many more were swallowed.
And now I need to find out who won.
There is nothing better than whizzing past lines of cars stuck in traffic while riding your bike.
Bike Lane Blues of the Day: As we’ve seen, NYC cyclists don’t always respect the rules of the road. But, as New Yorker Casey Neistat makes painfully clear in this PSA, it’s hard to respect the rules when the rules don’t respect you.
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I HATE bike lanes. Yes, they’re convenient on super-wide streets or for those scary-drivers who still don’t understand how wide their car is relative to the street, but other than that, drivers seem to just think it’s they’re designated area to stop. It’s ridiculously annoying. Just last week I was riding in a bike lane (which was on the right hand side of a two-way street) when a car ahead of me pulls over into it directly in front of me. As I start to move around him to his left because he had completely stopped, he then started pulling off and screaming at me as if I had any part in his idiotic behavior.
Hey drivers, bike lanes are for BIKES.
View Larger the weather was gorgeous today. damn near 50. no rain. not too windy.
so i took a nice little 40 min ride to NoLibs and back. definitely wasn’t prepared for that after being such a bum for the last 2 months… so excited to be back on my bike!
