Whoa! I am blown away by stuff like this! That totally rocks. Congrats!

My commute today was interesting to say the least.

Nice clear dry weather and lots of bikes on the road. As I rode in a young woman passed me on the right just as I was starting off from a dead stop at a red light that had just changed to green. She gave me a nice smile as she kind of cut me off but it was easy to forgive.

I then realized though I'd have to pass her as I got up to speed and went around her, gave a little smile nod and rode on. As I stopped at the next red light and I'm waiting she buzzes by me on the right again and shoots through the red light just as the light changed for the traffic crossing the intersection. Well, there was this truck blocking the view of a car and this girl came so close to getting flattened I thought my heart would stop. She careened just out of reach of the front bumper and rode on.

With this on my mind I get to the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Brighton Ave and a cyclist has gone down hard on the trolley tracks moments before I get there. He's hit his head (for those who are interested he was not wearing a helmet). He's in a state of semi-consciousness and the BU police are there in a second. I left the scene as the ambulance arrived.

Then as I'm cutting cross town outside of Copley Square. A woman in her late 40's, early 50's on a nice commuting bike runs the red light I am stopped at and flies into an intersection with traffic coming at her from 4 different directions at once. Yikes! It was really close as one car jammed right up behind her and blew their horn (totally unnecessary but you could argue that "she deserved it")

Tonight was Boston Courtesy Mass Ride. I was sorry to have missed it. I was in the area at the time. Just plumb forgot.