Ted Bennett wrote:
> Werehatrack <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Ted Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>http://digave.com/videos/red-web.mpg
> >
> > Entertaining, but if that's typical of NYC traffic either for the
> > bikes or otherwise, I'm happy that I'm not there.
>
> Indeed. I'm surprised that none of those pedestrians just stiff-armed
> one of them rather than jump out of the way. It would certainly tempt
> me.
>
> At any rate, the probability laws will catch up with them sooner or
> later.
>
> --
> Ted Bennett
Hah! That traipse down 7th Avenue is my evening commute, and the
Queensborough is part of my old route when I lived in northern
Brooklyn.
While I'm sympathetic to pedestrians (a couple of whom I've hit, though
they were jaywalkers leaping out from between parked cars), riding all
day in nyc's conditions will make you nutty. As tough as that video
looks, it's actually 100 times harder to negotiate. It's all intuition,
skill, awareness... and fate.
With all that said, I've been doored, smacked, potholed, attacked,
ticketed, oil-slicked, chased, hit, and I've seen an aggro cyclist
scare an old lady with right-of-way crossing the street. For a variety
of reasons, I've slowed down considerably. Most of the time.
/s