Originally Posted by nolucker
Interesting ride today. I thought I was over the embarrasing stuff, but i forgot to unclip at an intersection in Chinatown this morning, and down i went, got some weird looks from the locals. More seriously, I was threading my way through traffic on 3rd Ave in midtown (NY) and I got sideswiped by a van, he just kissed me, and I saw it happening too late, but I got a hand out and pushed off, kept going, spoke to him at the light, he asked if I was ok. Thing is, I consider it my fault, since it's up to me not to get myself killed if I'm gonna ride in traffic. I got a lot to learn. I was soaked with sweat when i got to work, fear, not exhaustion. At 55, maybe I'm too old for this ****.
his fault, not your responsability to not get yourself killed in "this traffic" afterall, you
are traffic so you have the same right to life....
youre never too old.
Oh man the commute sucks at the moment, the tube/ underground / "metro" is so crowded, its still fairly warm so theres a lot of BO and I'm gagging to get out riding again. Theres a complicated reason why I cant ride that no-one would understand so I cant be bothered to explain.