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Share your pics, videos, streets, stories of what you find in the bike lane of the non-bike variety that has an impact on your ride and/or your safety. I've decided to keep it a little more open ended - cars, snow, buses, garbage, cabs, etc. If they shouldn't be in the bike lane, go ahead and add it to this thread. Please be safe if you are taking pics or video! :-) 

My hope is that we can collectively build some evidence of what we see when riding in the city with the overall hope of better enforcement of "bikes only" and improving maintenance. 

Update: More Hashtags to Capture Vehicles in the Bike Lane

With popular hashtags:
#BikeLaneShaming

#LaneSpreading (Chicago Bike Selling)

#ClearTheWay (ActiveTrans), there are many options to capture violations.

We think you should use ALL of them AND post your photos on The Chainlink. ;-)

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It's the Fly 6 from Cycliq. What I do is get a screen grab from the video and save it as a JPG file - pretty easy.

And then there's this guy who drove in the bike lane behind me for a mile to get by all of the traffic.

Ugh! that's when you deploy the trained bats out of your bike's pannier, to fly around him and just poop on him, and scare him. A grown man on a Harley (must be a self centered Wisconsin lovin' cheesehead, since H-Ds are made in WI) can be made to scream like a sissy.

Did you slow down just to let him know he was in the wrong?

OMG I left my trained bats at home today!!!!!!! :-( Gotta remember not to do that again. 

Yes, riding slowly in front of jerks like this is a hobby of mine!

This Budget truck was blocking the Dearborn bike lanes. No regard for oncoming cycling traffic. I did not edit the video so we can all see the riders going south, had to deal with this truck. I did turn my head around at the red light (the camera is attached to the handlebars) and yes, the truck was there like it belonged there. 

Careful out there...

What time did you see the Budget truck? I saw it at...maybe 8:25ish? Wondering how long it was there.

Just a few minutes earlier, around 8:20. 

Love the guy making a left after your light is green. I'm seeing a lot more of that lately.

Must be a Wisconsinite ;) 

Yeah, saw that as well... se that happening at this intersection every day. 

LOL. Dang Wisconsinites. ;-)

I know right?! especially those with BMW cars. What a bunch of numbnutz they are!

Wondering if that van was a BMWagen special from Wisconsin. Especially from West Allis, where all the Wisconsinites congregate, to drive on bike lanes. 

Maybe we can send the Chicagoans who like to drive in bike lanes to West Allis???

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