I haven't done one of these in awhile.

https://vimeo.com/18821940

Sir, I think you need to seriously reconsider your approach to downtown cycling. This has to be the absolute worst cycling commute video I've ever watched, and I enjoy seeing everyone's different approach to the substandard treatment cyclists generally get. Your approach to commuting is really unacceptable and extremely dangerous. Here are a few examples:

• Throughout the video you sail through every red light after lane splitting. This is OK with me, but you need to include a FULL and COMPLETE stop at the red light, just as if you were in Idaho. At one of the streets in Chinatown (I'm from DC), you were halfway through the intersection before you realized it was a one-way street and you only needed to look in the other direction (the one you hadn't checked yet) for oncoming traffic.
• You need to yield to pedestrians that have the right of way. Around 6:30 you turn left on green in front of a pedestrian who was walking through the crosswalk. The law requires you stop, but I (and the pedestrian) were expecting you to swerve behind him (he clearly flinched), NOT in front.
• Almost your entire commute is in the door zone, but you don't appear to be looking for this hazard. You could see the camera jerk when that guy was stepping around his white car, you never even saw him get out of his car as you were just a few feet away.
• Do not pass cars by entering into oncoming traffic, as you did in 6:45.
• Do not lane split in the door zone, make sure you're left of at least one lane of moving traffic. Did you see that red pickup truck almost backed into you in their (DC-esque) terrible parallel parking job? That is why.

You have a difficult commute, I don't envy you, but there is a hell of a lot you could do to make it safer. Why set such a bad example?

8:06 and 8:34 are just really bad. You pass in front of pedestrians while they're in a crosswalk that has one of those big "stop for peds" signs, dodging in between the pedestrians and the sign. Especially around the mall where the speed limit is 15mph (but just in general) you should feel comfortable with taking the lane. Try asserting your rights as a cyclist, without infringing on the ability of others to get around.

For now, I'd just settle for a camera angle that didn't leave the street washed out due to the low sun. If it weren't for the rooflines of some of the buildings, I wouldn't know where the heck you were.

Thank goodness. Too many and you'll be pushing your luck and be a traffic statistic.

Do you have brakes on your bicycle?

This makes me sad.