Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - speaking of car sharking

Yipes!

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I like "the edge"

Ahhh I loved them all! The drunken rally with the driver coming after them and following them down the bike path into the park was pretty funny.

Yipes!

Yeah, seriously. Although it is glorious to watch, and I laughed out loud
through the whole thing, and some of the spaces he road through I thought
were impossible, I have to say that kind of riding does give cyclists
a bad name. You can sorta understand drivers who hate cyclists when you
see some of those stunts; and if one of those guys had been hit, I would
have had only limited sympathy.

Unrelated totraffic, though, I couldn't believe the closing shot of the guy
gliding down the bridge on a fixie with his feet up! It didn't even look like
he had brakes, either. Incredible.

i've definitely seen that guy on a bunch of critical mass rides.

i'm pretty sure he was the one who came out with a broken leg and rode his bike with just the other. he's definitely an enthusiast

Sigh, I think i'm in love....

i've definitely seen that guy on a bunch of critical mass rides.

i'm pretty sure he was the one who came out with a broken leg and rode his bike with just the other. he's definitely an enthusiast

yeah...he also pulls the couch.

i dislike him....so much.

oh my.

yeah...he also pulls the couch.

i dislike him....so much.


why do you dislike him? he's a great guy who does a great thing by filming these urban cycling events. plus, he's a damn good rider.

i don't care for his attitude. the videos are great, yes. i haven't seen him in over a year, and i'm quite pleased about it....also, he doesn't really watch where the f*ck he's riding when he's towing that stupid couch.

plowing through 50 riders in CM to get to the front with a couch, then not being able to STAY up there is not cool.

also, a few other things...i just don't like people who start sh1t and then complain when it backfires on them...

him and that dangley-globe earring guy, and that other guy "terry" who both go to CM in boston...those two are FAR worse than the couch guy...just because they're ****ing cause-heads.

[plowing through 50 riders in CM to get to the front with a couch, then not being able to STAY up there is not cool.

also, a few other things...i just don't like people who start sh1t and then complain when it backfires on them...

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i agree with the couch blocking thing --didn't know about that. i also agree with your other point --starting sh1te and then complaining or yelling at another. for example, that video of lucas slapping a hood when trying to blow a light pisses me off a bit. we should not transfer our anger at ourselves to innocent drivers, especially when we were in the wrong to begin with. that said, the driver was way worse when she/he tried to cut him off afterward.

still, lucas gets loads of respect from me just for what he does with the camera.

what is a 'cause-head'? just cuz he said that cm was a protest against car culture? shouldnt it be?

that one video is some of the nicest city riding ive seen. also that bit where he is going the wrong way and then banks off a car as its turning and the driver has the window down and shes screaming ... yeah its a little not cool but i cant help crack a smile. ok i bust out laughing.

speaking of cm, anyone from pdx go on that one ride last year where we went to the lloyd center mall and the security guards freaked and locked all the doors so we couldnt get in and we just kept circling around and none of the shoppers could get in or out and they were all so pissed and then we went into the parking garage and everyones screaming and car alarms going off everywhere? that was the best.

what is a 'cause-head'? just cuz he said that cm was a protest against car culture? shouldnt it be?

that one video is some of the nicest city riding ive seen. also that bit where he is going the wrong way and then banks off a car as its turning and the driver has the window down and shes screaming ... yeah its a little not cool but i cant help crack a smile. ok i bust out laughing.

speaking of cm, anyone from pdx go on that one ride last year where we went to the lloyd center mall and the security guards freaked and locked all the doors so we couldnt get in and we just kept circling around and none of the shoppers could get in or out and they were all so pissed and then we went into the parking garage and everyones screaming and car alarms going off everywhere? that was the best.

this kinda meanders a bit and the last paragraph is a little off-topic, but it kinda relates, i think.

the "cause-head" comment wasn't directed at lucas, i should've been more clear. it was directed at the other two characters who attend CM. it's a term from the movie "PCU," that refers to people who petition for every stinking cause that comes their way even if they don't particularily know about all the issues. they get behind things just to do so. the dangly-globe-earring guy accosted my girlfriend on the train once to start telling her about the flavor of the week/month movement and was really rude and condescending to her...i used to know his real name, but i've since forgotten it...i think it's dan or something. notice i said him and the other character are far worse than lucas as far as the annoyance factor goes.

the last critical mass i went to in boston was one when lucas was still in his cast/immobilizer thingy. we were heading across the charles and of course the group had become a bit stringy and non-cohesive, and lucas was out in front...well, some dorkus in a porsche decided it would be funny to mess with us, and specifically, lucas. i think he bumped lucas at a stop sign or something, because some CM people were trying to "cork" the porsche guy and trap him in the group...except there kinda weren't enough people for it. at any rate, i heard lucas screaming from down the block and then everybody caught up...it turned out he was fine, but the porsche driver was still being an utter dick and threatening everybody there. someone took some pics of the guy, his car, his plates, and...the open cans of beer in the guy's car...big surprise. there was some other crap that went down earlier in the night that involved yet another super aggro porsche driver...again lucas was antagonizing the driver...a bunch of stuff...blah...it's not all lucas' fault, and he certainly wasn't the only person antagonizing by any means, but he does tend to get rather vocal, and then it seems he's not prepared to acept the consequences...

also that night we were "escorted" by the brookline PD...and told that if anyone decided not to ride two-by-two through brighton, they'd be arrested...funny thing there was that the cops were the ones holding us back...and they even shut down harvard ave. for us completely. that night really turned me off to critical mass...i hated having to look over my shoulder riding to work or school the mondays after a CM ride, even after i stopped going. the whole thing really made me feel very unsafe going home, and CM in general makes me feel unsafe for the first couple weeks following a ride. in boston, anyway, the tension is pretty palpable, and i'm sure it's like that in every big city... i can't really support something that increases the chances of me, or someone else on a bike becoming a victim of road rage.

critical mass can be fun...a few of the rides i did in boston were pretty nice...but there were always incidents of aggressive, idiotic behavior on both sides of the spectrum, and that's not something i like to be a part of.

:eek: Quite entertaining to watch! Ahh......to be young (<35), reckless, and STUPID!!! Hell, it's THEIR hides on the line.

hey onetin, i was at that brookline ride when the cops filed us two by two. i think that mighta been my last ride. it wasn't that i felt unsafe or anything.. it's just that the first few mass rides i went on, they were fun as hell.. kids were riding unicycles, we were plowing all over the place, and confrontations were never overly aggressive.. just some snide remarks to motorists.

lucas definitely starts ****. and then the WHOLE CM group gets this big gossipy vibe... everyone wants to know every detail of the confrontation.. and i just feel like "**** it, let's ride!" but people get way too wrapped up in the anti-authority part of it.. which is definitely a part of it.. but i'd rather be having a blast blasting through the tunnels in harvard sq. than ride 2x2 while talking about how dumb it is the cops are stopping traffic.

hey onetin, i was at that brookline ride when the cops filed us two by two. i think that mighta been my last ride. it wasn't that i felt unsafe or anything.. it's just that the first few mass rides i went on, they were fun as hell.. kids were riding unicycles, we were plowing all over the place, and confrontations were never overly aggressive.. just some snide remarks to motorists.

lucas definitely starts ****. and then the WHOLE CM group gets this big gossipy vibe... everyone wants to know every detail of the confrontation.. and i just feel like "**** it, let's ride!" but people get way too wrapped up in the anti-authority part of it.. which is definitely a part of it.. but i'd rather be having a blast blasting through the tunnels in harvard sq. than ride 2x2 while talking about how dumb it is the cops are stopping traffic.

yeah, the gossipy bit was a part of why i stopped going too...and i felt it was counter-productive. but yeah, the first few times i went, it was really, really fun! and the tunnels in harvard were cool the one time i went through them with the mass. i did them another time by myself really late at night and it was sketchy as hell...but still fun. CM is a really fun way to get more familiar with a city. i just wish it was less chaotic...or that it drew a lot less ire from the car-driving public.

the brookline ride that i was talking about was like, two years ago in jan/feb...maybe march, i don't really remember, but i guess that sort of thing happens a lot between CM and the brookline PD...and by a lot, i mean every time they go through brookline. it was slightly chilly though, and the cops were being really, really stupid and i was looking for a place to bolt in case things got ugly...they didn't though, and i was glad. after brookline we went into cambridge via that little footbridge thingy that crosses the masspike...and that's where the crap with lucas and the drunk guy in the porsche went down. i left as soon as it got to harvard square and shot down mass ave back to boston.

I can't ever see myself doing anything like that. It's like all the things that you aren't supposed to do: riding the wrong way, riding between cars, in the middle of the street, etc, etc. I imagine that every single one of those drivers was frightened by the presence of a bicycle in their face and then pissed off. It was pretty ****ing kewl though.