the moment my tire touches manhattan real estate, i feel the danger multiplies.

google maps shows i only ride 2 miles in manhattan, sometimes it feels like 4....

"The rise in traffic deaths last year was largely driven by a spike in crashes that killed motorcyclists, from 29 in 2009 to 39. The number of cyclist deaths also increased from 12 to 18. (In 2008, 26 cyclists were killed in traffic.)
More pedestrians lost their lives in traffic than any other category of victim: 151 pedestrians were killed by traffic in 2010, five fewer than the year before."

http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/02/0...hes-last-year/