Originally Posted by
Gordiep
And...where I grew up, you run in front of a car on your bike, they ain't stopping...and chances are it's a pickup coming down on you. If they do stop, it's likely there's a shotgun hanging on the rack in the cab.
Originally Posted by
Gordiep
I've worked my whole life to avoid living in huge metropolitan areas. Maybe this is my problem-- that I don't understand 'city life' or whatever....
You are correct; you clearly do not know what you're talking about. This race is not for you, it does not happen in your suburb or driveway, and it has nothing to do with the way
you ride your bike.
The same goes for anybody trying to apply what they see around the country to the way riding works in New York City. And calling people "junior" (twice), "cowboy," "lad" or "dingus," and going so far as to talk about shotguns in the cabs of... pickup trucks ...and relating that somehow to New York only serve to marginalize your whining further.
Originally Posted by
Gordiep
It's idiotic horsing around, not some epic athletic competition.
Again, you are simply wrong. The top finishers at Monstertrack--who were the most prominently featured in the video--are just insanely,
insanely fast, completely aside from their traffic maneuvering abilities. Many of them win UCI road races regularly, race at the track, and if nothing else take top standings in every single Alleycat race in the region; not just this best-known one.
Austin, for instance--the guy who crashes on the bridge in the video--was the North American Cycle Courier champion in 2006, and wins most of the alleycats around New York, including two in one day on July Fourth of this year.
Originally Posted by
Gordiep
I have zero respect for a bunch of middle-class wank*rs playing toughman in traffic.
Also, every one of the top finishers in this video is a working messenger. Every single one. "Middle-Class ******s?"
Finally, and most tellingly, it is just hilarious that you are telling people to look up "Rhetorical Irony," a term that specifically translates to "saying the opposite of what you mean." So apparently, murder jokes and all, your inherent jealousy over this phenomenon you don't understand is shining a little more brightly than even you realized.