Today I found out that you can teach a moron to ride bike, too. I stopped at a red light and leaned forward to check my front brake adjustment. I just heard this "whoooosh" as someone zipped past me, so I lifted my head to see if I had missed the lights change. Nope, it was still bright red, and the guy who had passed me was all over the intersection playing tag with the cages. Somehow he managed to miss them all (not by much, mind you), creating a minor traffic jam. A fellow cyclist behind me screamed "...you on crack or something?", cars honked, drivers gave him the finger... the works. This guy never blinked, he just went around the cars and continued. Did the same in next, smaller intersection, too. He did not wear a helmet (nowadays mandatory here).

There were at least a couple of dozen cagers in that intersection and I am waiting to see their letters beginning to appear in the local newspaper condemning all cyclists to h€ll. It will take the rest of us a long time of responsible, law-abiding cycling to make up for the bad karma. I give him a "hang-around member" status for Darwin Awards. The way he rides, promotion is well on its way.

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Other than that, it was a nice ride.

--J