i don't want to be seen as a threadjacker...i just see many cycling issues embodied here....and much to discuss there.

none of the issues, though, should overshadow the fact that someone, just a kid (hell, i'm still just a kid and barely older) got killed due to the ways in which motor vehicles and bicycles can't coexist on american city streets.

by the way, if the cabbie hit him on accident while trying to get into the lane and knocked him under a dump truck, why the hell was the cabbie trying to get into a lane where a dump truck was so close, anyway?