Tuesday, September 19, 2006

The Urban Biker

I like the idea of biking on city streets. Except the cars are too fast and the trucks are too big. Few avenues have dedicated bikes lanes, and even there taxis are invariably parked in my way. And oh the dangers: 225 NYC bikers were killed between 1996 and 2005. No wonder I often feel like the only biker on Second Avenue who's not delivering pizza or Chinese.

This is not true closer to Central Park. Spandex-laden doctors with shimmering racing bikes seem to metasticize out of nowhere. It's as if there were secret bicycle bat caves along Fifth Avenue, spewing forth these men who like to shout "Hands on bars, please" and "Approaching on your right" with enough super-hero gusto that you almost hope they miss a curve and fly right into the Harlem Meer.

5 comments:

Joe said...

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olan said...

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SAM said...

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Do vote for him for a growing Newyork.

Christopher said...

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Unknown said...

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vote for gerson.