Joined: Jan 2009
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From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
Someone was riding his bike on a busy street yesterday evening as I was walking home from the subway. I was waiting for the light, and the cyclist was on the street with the light. Traffic was heavy, and he was occupying a lane and moving at about 4 mph, reading his phone, oblivious to all around him. I said, "Look up, look up, you're in traffic, look up, you're in traffic, look up, look up." He eventually heard me, looked at me, and proceeded. He didn't stop reading the cell phone, but last I saw him, he was heading (deliberately) for the back of a bus because it had pulled over at a bus stop, in other words out of the flow of traffic. I normally don't like to tell people what to do and what not to do, but he needed a wakeup.