If it's not fake, it appears the black VW was following the Porsche with the intent of kidnapping the occupants. Either the cyclist gave them the opportunity, or he was actually part of the operation (though he really didn't block the Porsche enough to be guaranteed that kind of response, unless they knew he was prone to that sort of thing).

What is it that the cyclists are doing when they're clearly hauling-ass, but still leaving smoke trails?

Obama, Merkel, Hollande, Renzi and Cameron are going to be in town on Monday. I suppose parts of the city will be locked down tighter than a duck's ass...

As if that wasn't enough, public transit workers are on strike next week, so it'll be quite a mess. On the upside, the resulting traffic jam ought to make it safer for cyclists like myself...

"Do you even human?"



Lost it right there!

However, the cyclists are riding quite separated which makes it much harder to pass them safely. They should be riding stacked in twos and closer, then they aren't holding traffic up as much. I completely understand that they have every right to do what they're doing, and there's no laws saying they need to make life easy for anyone. I'm just saying there are things they could perhaps do better if they don't want to upset other road users.

There's hopefully something else going on in her world to make her angry like that (I'm feeling charitable tonight).

Actually, no, I'm not. I'm also not a driver any cyclist will have any video of as I drive around bikes like they're suicidal morons. I'm seldom wrong.

The biggest problem I have with most bike videos I've seen is they usually get edited down to show the cyclist in the best possible light. I know, for a fact, most bike riders (note not calling them cyclists) haven't a clue what the laws around cycling are, and wouldn't care if they did. Another attitude I find prevalent is the "I have the right of way, therefore I'm indestructible" one. There are shit drivers out there, but if you go toe to toe with them, "being right" is meaningless...

You must not be a cyclist. I'm shocked at how many times I hear how people think a cyclist is in the wrong when what they are doing is perfectly legal and they are doing it to keep from dying. I see many videos of cyclists come through here, most of them are doing perfectly normal things when the BS ensues.

Wow, that has to be the first "I'm a cyclist, look what this asshole did!" video I've seen where the cyclist did absolutely nothing wrong and was completely following the law.

Not only did the bus driver almost squash him, but he "underpasses" the other traffic and barely avoids running the red light. Most likely through excessive speed. He should have gotten more than a note on his file...

The linked article says that it was indeed:

Municipal Services Minister Meegan Fitzharris said the driver would be counselled and a note placed on his file.

"The footage was sent to the driver's depot manager who has interviewed and spoken with the driver and reviewed CCTV footage from the bus," she said.

"The investigation is now complete.

"ACTION will send an apology to the cyclist."

So, which olympians do you think would be best at this? Rowers are brutally fit, as are the cyclists. Decathletes?

A generation or two ago I doubt that poor Guatemalans could get fat, regardless of culture, because they simply didn't have access to the surplus energy required. This surplus energy shows up in nitrate fertilizers used for agriculture, powered tools of all sorts, and manufactured goods, like used bicycles.

It comes, of course, from fossil fuels.

A bicycle may seem a simple and primitive device, but just try to build a bicycle chain in your home workshop and you will see that making safety bicycles is possible only in a modern industrial state. It's not surprising that the development of the safety bicycle only barely preceded that of the automobile and the airplane.

The bicimaquina raw material is discarded bicycles from richer people -- nothing wrong with that, it's good, frugal engineering. But it should be borne in mind when plotting the future that hardly used bicycles are not a renewable resource, and require energy and infrastructure to produce.

Bicycling does give one a good appreciation of the value of energy. For example, 125 Watts is a respectable output for a touring cyclist; keep that up for 8 solid hours, and you have one kilowatt-hour. One kW-hr is a day at hard labor. A typical household in the developed world uses the equivalent of the labor of three or four hard-laboring slaves every day.

Of course, those slaves aren't the most efficient. You'll notice that the machines shown all use a direct mechanical drive. They could generate electricity, but that would cost -- multiply a few 90% efficiencies together and pretty soon you're getting nothing done by leg power.

Bicycle drive does allow good power production from human beings, and multi-geared bicycles are adaptable to people of differing strength. Not as much fun as flipping a switch, but easier than turning a crank.

It's plain that cheap fossil fuels won't last forever, indeed they may not last for much longer, and probably will never be available to much of the world at the same level as we currently enjoy in the US or Australia. Will we find ourselves scouring garages and cellars for disused bicycles?

It's good to see a cyclist using proper turn signals too.

The fucking sad thing is, I love seeing the videos where cops are doing the right thing. That cop that was dancing in the gay pride march, the guys that help out the cyclists when the motorist does the wrong thing, the cop that defended the people handing out flyers in the airport etc.

These people are good guys and girls, honest people doing a fucking hard job.

But if they speak out when they see the sort of shit that get's put up every other day around here, they get harassed etc. If they stay silent, they become complicit. Having worked in a public service job for a long time, I intimately understand the awful drag of complacency and apathy where you see shit happening for so long and nothing you do seems to make a difference, but it still becomes a choice of letting it happen, or continuing to fight.

To clarify an earlier point, when I said he had the right to tell them to stop, that was because I'm taking his word on the local laws.

But just for the record, the laws are wrong.

Skaters absolutely have as much right to use the road as anyone else, the exact same way cyclists do.

A long boarder can easily hit 50kmh going downhill, so they're not holding up traffic and as long as they're staying on the correct side of the road, they're not harming anyone anymore than a car or a cyclist.

Yes, much safer now that they've allowed cyclists onto the race track.

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