There should be separate bike lanes sidewalks should be wide enough for bikes to share with pedestrians everywhere. Riding a bike in traffic sucks for everyone involved -- the bicyclist, the motorists. I am afraid to ride my bike on the street. It's stupid to allow bikes in places where most bicyclists can't even get close to the speed limit i.e. wherever the speed limit is above 25.

Let's not act like this was the spectator's fault. First, there were a couple of bikes that looked like they were going to hit the two spectators, so obviously they flinched, and the guy tried to escape. Natural reaction.

And it's also the cyclists' fault because he left the group and went into the parking spaces and the bike lane. Last time I checked, racing must stay on the actual road.

This is a case of one group of alarmists calling out another group of alarmists. The big difference is the cost of being wrong.

If the conservative view is correct and we're riding a natural heat wave that will even itself out, then we're wasting money trying to stop it and we could all be a little more prosperous if we weren't bogged down by recycling and bike lanes.

If the scientists a correct and our consumption is putting us on a path of accelerating climate change on a scale never before seen in the history of our planet, then life on this planet will end. I would tend to err on the side of caution for this one.

>> ^quantumushroom:

The warming alarmists have gone from doctoring data to preachin' propaganda though a children's cartoon? That's about right.

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>> ^Mcboinkens:

>> ^MaxWilder:
There is a lot of debate about helmets. Some claim there is no reduction in injury where helmets are mandatory. Some even claim that helmets increase certain risks. I can't find the video/article I recently saw, but you can see the controversy on the wikipedia page.


Yeah, that's why athletes don't wear helmets, right?

The argument in that article is absolutely stupid. Of course a helmet may not save you if a car crashed into you. That wasn't what it was meant for. It was meant to provide protection for your skull, in any sort of calamity. Yeah, a child may die from being strangled by the helmet, but if you would rather them risk getting a head-smash into concrete that's your own parenting decision.
There isn't "a lot" of debate, and "some" people just spout crap to get more funding.
Millions of dollars go into research on helmets every year, you really think we'd be using them if they weren't useful?

Also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12333783

"The most obvious reason to wear a helmet is that doing so protects you in the event of an accident. But by how much?
Back in 2001, Australian experts set out to determine just this by trawling medical literature published in the past decade.
Their analysis found that wearing a helmet cut the risk of head injury and brain injury by half, and facial injury by nearly a third."
source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457500000488



http://videosift.com/video/TEDxCopenhagen-Why-We-Shouldn-t-Bike-with-a-Helmet

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Thank goodness he wasn't dancing in the bike lanes.

>> ^Krupo:


Yeah, you're lucky he didn't just give you a citation for not keeping your mouth shut. Dude, they're cheap. Like one big imported beer cheap. You don't need a mega-strong $200 off-road racing lamp.
http://www.mec.ca/
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Like i said, i was a whiner. And frankly, considering how poor i was and how rarely i rode my bike and wasn't even in traffic, i'd much rather have saved the dough for one big imported beer. Gotta have priorities.

>> ^nadabu:

I was once warned by a cop not to ride without a headlight at night on my bike once. Fair 'nuf, but i was in well-lit park, not even on a proper road. He said that's why it was just a warning. Being a whiner, i still complained that i was a poor college student and rarely rode my bike (i walked and bused mostly), so dishing out cash for a light was hard. He suggested i ride holding a flashlight. Yeah... 'cause carrying a flashlight in one hand while steering a bike will really make me safer.


Yeah, you're lucky he didn't just give you a citation for not keeping your mouth shut. Dude, they're cheap. Like one big imported beer cheap. You don't need a mega-strong $200 off-road racing lamp.

http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442588127&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302692895

>> ^MaxWilder:

There is a lot of debate about helmets. Some claim there is no reduction in injury where helmets are mandatory. Some even claim that helmets increase certain risks. I can't find the video/article I recently saw, but you can see the controversy on the wikipedia page.


I have in the past been an avid bike rider and I know, through some aggressive field testing on hard pavement and wet streets that my helmet has protected my brain from doing street art.

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>> ^critical_d:
Here is some info found online. According to the PDF download on the site... § 4-12 (p) – Bicycles • Bicycle riders must use bike path/lane, if provided, except for access, safety, turns, etc. • Other vehicles shall not drive on or across bike lanes except for access, safety, turns, etc. >> ^zombieater: So the radio station said that it wasn't illegal to not ride in the bike lane - does anyone know if this is true?


this is the full Law


—34 RCNY § 4-12(p) Bicycles.
(1) Bicycle riders to use bicycle lanes. Whenever a usable path or lane for bicycles has been provided, bicycle riders shall use such path or lane only except under any of the following situations:
(i) When preparing for a turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.
(ii) When reasonably necessary to avoid conditions (including but not limited to, fixed or moving objects, motor vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, pushcarts, animals, surface hazards) that make it unsafe to continue within such bicycle path or lane.

So the cyclist decides if its safe and if you bring this to court they will throw out the fine. It's legal to not be in the lane. I just had to post this since I am a biker in nyc and there will be a reason to cut into the road from the bike lane at about every block which I think is more dangerous so I just don't use them most of the time.

>> ^Payback:

Find out the details of someone you hate and give that to the cops, claiming you don't have your licence on you.


I don't know about New York cops, but NC State Troopers have a computer in their car and can pull up the photo ID from the info given to them.

My name is blankfist and I'm a bikoholic..
>> ^Payback:

Find out the details of someone you hate and give that to the cops, claiming you don't have your licence on you.

Here is some info found online.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/biketips.shtml

According to the PDF download on the site...

§ 4-12 (p) – Bicycles

• Bicycle riders must use bike path/lane, if provided, except for access, safety, turns, etc.
• Other vehicles shall not drive on or across bike lanes except for access, safety, turns, etc.

>> ^zombieater:

So the radio station said that it wasn't illegal to not ride in the bike lane - does anyone know if this is true?