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The author uses the now-infamous Scott Simon tweet as an opportunity to address some of the attitudes directed at urban cycling.

https://medium.com/@CarlAlviani/why-bikes-make-smart-people-say-dum...

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they interfere with an otherwise smooth-flowing system Yeah, I-55, The Kennedy all real smooth flowing without a bike in site.

Croostown traffic will take you upwards of an hour or 2 from Jersey to Brooklyn, now on a bike?

Running a red is dumb on the bikers part, weaving is something we can do to get further ahead and keep the momentum going, you're just all sitting in you 8x15 foot rolling boxes going nowhere fast.

This is a good article that covers a lot of the bullshit arguments BUT I do chuckle about the "can you believe that someone from NPR was being dumb about something?" 

And now even Ira Glass' insipid whining about us letting our High Fidelity membership lapse when the credit card was changed isn't going to make me feel bad any more. 

So long legacy journalism. It was fun for a while.  

I can't wait until gas is $50/gallon. 

Should read: "Why Twitter makes smart people say dumb things".

twitter is the spear tip front of the sound bite psychosis that cements our present day banality

rwein5 said:

Nah

Irvin Steinert said:

Should read: "Why Twitter makes smart people say dumb things".

Cars don't shoal one another nearly as much as bikes.  I want to get one of those t-shirt cannons and blast everyone I see with a free shirt with 'shoal asshole' written on the back.

+1

Shoaling is proof-positive that bicyclists can be every bit as self-centered, rude, and entitled as auto drivers. 

Tricolor said:

Cars don't shoal one another nearly as much as bikes.  I want to get one of those t-shirt cannons and blast everyone I see with a free shirt with 'shoal asshole' written on the back.

Retweeted.

Irvin Steinert said:

twitter is the spear tip front of the sound bite psychosis that cements our present day banality

rwein5 said:

Nah

Irvin Steinert said:

Should read: "Why Twitter makes smart people say dumb things".

When drivers say bikes cause traffic I ask if they've ever been stuck behind a bike for more than 3 min. The answer is always no and then they feel dumb. 

My main consolation is that shoaling dies down once the weather gets below 50 degrees. 

James BlackHeron said:

+1

Shoaling is proof-positive that bicyclists can be every bit as self-centered, rude, and entitled as auto drivers. 

Tricolor said:

Cars don't shoal one another nearly as much as bikes.  I want to get one of those t-shirt cannons and blast everyone I see with a free shirt with 'shoal asshole' written on the back.

I now get this tune stuck in my head every time I get shoaled, and it always makes me laugh: 

http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/think-of-this-as-a-missed-...

Tricolor said:

Cars don't shoal one another nearly as much as bikes.  I want to get one of those t-shirt cannons and blast everyone I see with a free shirt with 'shoal asshole' written on the back.

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