Another balmy 70° morning. Decent ride into manhattan. Too many people without lights on their bikes. I will sometimes wave my hand in front of my headlight as if to say, "you need a light".

Coming down york avenue just past new york presbyterian hospital some guy on the opposite side of the avenue heading towards me decides it's a good idea to pull a random u turn with traffic rushing behind him and pulls into both lanes of traffic on my side at such a speed that he can't complete the turn and ends up blocking both lanes sideways and his timing was such that if I hadn't seen him and hit my brakes hard I would have ran right into his passenger door.

I screamed profanity and kept my middle finger up for him as I went around him and continued down the avenue. Forecast shows I may get wet on the ride home, we shall see....