Originally Posted by
m_yates
If it were me, I'd be exhausted from the stress and you'd have to peel my hands off the handlebars from gripping tightly bracing for impact!
The vid is sped up 25% in editing. Not as bad as it looks.
Originally Posted by
m_yates
Just curious, but has the NOPD ever stopped you? I guess if you live in New Orleans you have a sense of how corrupt some/most of the officers are. As I said, you don't want to entice the NOPD in any way!
Never been stopped.
A NOPD cop once told me, so long as I don't make him spill his coffee - it's all good. Years of experience have pretty much confirmed that for me. But I try not to run red lights AT SPEED right in front of them, but if I slow down to under 10 mph and go through they don't care. Also, in the French Quarter all of the side streets are one-way, narrow, and full of cars going very slow. Had I seen his roof lights ignite, I would have turned down the very next side street immediately just in case. That has never happened tho. If I ever get pulled over, I will be polite, take my ticket, and pay it. Cops here are mostly NOT corrupt. They just have better things to do. If they ticketed every cyclist in NOLA who bike contraflow all the time, they would need to triple their numbers.