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I think it's generally a bad idea, but I have done it many times including around NYC. A good adventure for sure at night, but daytime is fine. Here's something, but it's the half-drunks and the immigrants in cars that are the problem and I do not think this will have any impact on them because they are too busy jostling cars and dinging pedestrians to worry about bikers:

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this makes me want to run them down.

#1 The Poetry of Violence on 2015-04-09 12:11 (Reply)

Several years ago around here, bicyclists would gather by the scores and clog up the streets often riding 3 and 4 abreast. If you were in a car and reminded them that it was against the law to block traffic and that they were supposed to ride single file, you ended up in the middle of a sh*t storm. I know a lot of people secretly (nor not) wished that somebody in a ginormous SUV would have had the same idea as you.

As for the video, some of those riders seemed to be crazy to me. They were riding all over a busy street. No wonder they get hit.

#1.1 mudbug on 2015-04-09 13:22 (Reply)

Dear Poetry,
Your surname is apt.
Try doing something about your anger.

And mudbug,
Come on, give some gals a break -- they're on bikes.

#2 ns on 2015-04-09 17:46 (Reply)

ok, snowflake. do you need trigger warnings? am I micro-aggressing you?

#2.1 The Poetry of Violence on 2015-04-09 19:48 (Reply)

ns, I'm happy to share the road with bicyclists, but I expect them to follow the laws and be civil. Those incidents don't happen anymore (at least they haven't for a long time), but when they did it was very aggravating and potentially dangerous. I believe they were part of an antagonist "protest" of some kind.

#2.2 mudbug on 2015-04-09 19:58 (Reply)

Seems like neat stuff, but I read it's water soluble, so washes out in the rain, and lasts maybe a week with no rain.

#3 Sam L. on 2015-04-10 00:20 (Reply)

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Bike-riding at night