Bike Lanes, C/D?

jd---whatever you do, do not go for a bike ride on the LFP, it is the worst (though it's probably better now that the weather's gone to hell)

MKE Ave is a junkshow once the weather gets nice, but it's reliable in the shitty months

downtown is safer than you think

i mean my strategy for staying safe in chicago (...from pedestrians) was just go fast all the time

on those occasions that i went through the west side, i just pinned it, usually, and hoped that my tires were equal to the amount of glass on the street

it's actually the only place i've ever gotten aggro from the corner, w/dudes like straight telling me that i ought not to have come this way, and that maybe i made a bad life-choice by taking my bike via pulaski and chicago

ok i feels dum:
wut is "LFP" and "MKE"
also (about tires and glass) i got so many fucking flats last fall i bit the bullet and got those bullet proof tires and i haven't had a flat since

lake front path
milwaukee ave

lakefront path no good?

in the warmer months? helllllll no

most dangerous place to bike imo

too many bikes or...

Lake Front Path is basically a gauntlet of pedestrians where more than once per day a mother will seemingly throw a stroller, with a child in it, right in front of you.

Two rollerbladers, holding hands, will get closer, put there heads down, and speed straight towards you.

Tall, lanky, injured old men will lay down across the path when they see you coming, daring you to run them over.

Basically hell.

lake front path for nintendo gameboy coming in 2010

n i c k otm

miranda devine is a horrible neocon and does deserve to get u-locked, for that article and so much more

What is u-locking? Is it violent? Anyway, I don't like that lady or her sentiment, either.

oh ok
only times i rode the lake path it was like 3am
and at that time it was nobody but me and the occasional drunk
i think i went really really fast

Oh yeah LFP at 3am is classic, don't get me wrong.

PS hey ilx urban cyclists, if yr city has light rail/streetcars, pay extra heed to the tracks. Last night I thought I was crossing the track at enough of a diagonal to make it over. I was not (also it was wet), the front wheel got caught in the tracks, and I now have some very lovely bruises and cuts.

Oh railroad tracks and grates were drummed into us by Dad from the beginning, esp in the rain. He pretty much made us pass a written exam about possible dangers before we were allowed on the streets. I don't think I cross any, ever, now.

They're everywhere in downtown PDX, and it's always raining, so not crossing isn't really an option. I would have been fine if I'd been at more of an angle.

Gotta stop falling on the same side, though. My poor left leg is just covered in scrapes and bruises as of late.

yeah, i always wipe out on the left, it's weird!

really?. some edits for brevity-

In Stone’s rebuttal, she laid out an allegory of sorts, re-telling the three Mandeville Canyon incidents the prosecution presented during the trial.

She’s... at Trader Joe’s. Someone, she said, “is in my aisle, blocking me from my granola. So I blast his nose with a baseball bat.”

“But of course, I get arrested.”

Then, donning a white doctor’s coat, she said, “But I shroud myself in this because I want to deflect what I did.”

i like that metaphor

I WANT MY GRANOLA

i like it too, and... swinging a real bat? a lab coat? neither of which are real evidence?

NITA shit is never that fun.

i'm sure the defense attorney who wrote ACCIDENT on an overhead projector thought he was being clever. then bitch shows up with a bat and a lab coat.

what is NITA

trial advocacy training program for attorneys

"national institute for trial advocacy"

then bitch shows up with a bat and a lab coat.

i hope that dude gets what's coming to him

i mean, i know this is obv and all, but i'm pretty blown away by the fact that this dude is an ER doc

super aggro king of the universe dude is...a doctor? say it ain't so

;-)

gonna stop my car in front of u

take a picture

c'mon level withme, whenever u have a teacher who makes some noise about "you are all to be healers" or w/e, there's a cohort of dudes in the back rolling their damn eyes and making jerky-offy motions

oh totally!

they're all gonna be surgeons, tho

^real talk

wtf is up w/cars passing u w/in 1-2 feet when the other lane is clear for miles ahead

passive-aggressive assholes

See I much prefer that to when cars swerve halfway into the other lane to give me a wide berth. Feels like an excellent way to get into a car accident, debris from which will surely fly out and decapatate me.

i'm still trying to get over my fear of biking at night around here, i known how many folks drive buzzed or drunk in l.a. and i always assume one of these days i'm gonna get clipped by someone who drifts to the right.

See I much prefer that to when cars swerve halfway into the other lane to give me a wide berth.

yeah but i try to be positive to anyone who shows me consideration, even if it is unnecessary or irritating. for instance, NOT passing me when it is completely reasonable for them to do so. they just follow and follow and follow, and OH JUST. FUCKING. PASS. ME, PLEASE. then i think, this fool is trying to do the right thing and is probly annoyed at me. i'll even pull over for them and try to be happy about it.

^^^ i am trying to do this more.

It really is worth doing this if you can, I think, especially if you've just had an encounter which has left you fuming. The problem is, that if you are fuming, you are more likely to ride dangerously (at least I am). Trying to catch up with people who've done something stupid to shout 'oi!' (or worse) at them, shooting lights to get away from an altercation because you're so pumped. You stop thinking about the road because you're so busy thinking about the asshole who tried to shit you up.

Letting someone go over at a pedestrian crossing, waving at a car that doesn't pull out in front of you when it might have, I find helps restore some equilibrium and refocuses me on the road and sensible ideas of shared space.

Aggression on the road makes things less safe for everyone - and not necessarily in just the obvious ways. A driver threatened to kill me recently, after having smashed my face in, it seems, for having had the temerity (and good sense) not to ride in the gutter but in the middle of the lane, as one should if there isn't space for a car to pass safely. Anyway, at the next lights, I thought he was going to get out of his car and carry out of his threats, so instead of queuing safely, I had to filter down a narrow gap on the inside of a bus, a dangerous manoeuvre I would not have otherwise performed.

I was shaking and not really focused on what I was doing. Fortunately all was well, but that sort of behaviour, whether by cyclists or drivers, should be avoided at all costs. Of course, you're going to shout vile names at someone you feel has endangered you, but it's worth returning to as much of a state of zen like calm as quickly possible.

Guilty.

fantastic

No bail.

saw this on cyclingtipsblog o_O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPtA3Ng6-n8