this is extremely sad. my thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and family

my mom thought it was me because i go to massart. it was later announced he was a graduate. this is terrible. huntington can be crazy sometimes.

[QUOTE=Morgie]cabs in boston are generally kinda crazy, so when something like this happens people get easily upset... the cyclist was hit from behind, in a lot of places no matter what if you hit someone from behind it's your fault... /QUOTE]

+1

This is a pretty terrible story. People need to pay more attention while they are driving.

Reminds me of last year some kid at my university got run over while crossing at a cross walk by some jackass doing 50mph on a campus street and not watching the road. Drivers need to watch what they're doing.

if anyone knows who this is please private message me the information. my ex-gf is in knots because she is pretty sure this is a friend of hers.

my heart goes out to him and his family. that's just a sh*tty thing to happen to anyone. i'm up for a ride in memory of him, and i think there's talk of putting a ghost bike there.

my heart goes out to his friends and family

the last cyclist death in boston happened the same way, like 5 or so years ago. Some woman was commuting, wearing a helmet, 100% in the right, and got doored by a cab, and couldn't recover, fell out into the road and a city bus ran over her head.

Boston cabbies are possibly the worst thing I've ever experienced. Like 4 years there, and I'm so glad I don't have to deal with them on a regular basis anymore.

This poor guy, just riding his bike, picking up the slack for every meathead driving a fossil fuel box, and this is what happens. So depressing. If there's a memorial ride, I'd really like to try to make it back up to boston.

that wasn't the last bike related death.

i had a friend/bandmate lose her life to a car on lincoln st. in lower allston a few years back.

i think there might have been one other....

jesus, dude

That's really not the worst part, it's possibly the best part. The fact that everyone's friends and family are concerned by this is good. These people will probably be more careful around cyclists in the future, and maybe even encourage other people to as well. Thinking of that person on a bike as an actual person, be it a friend or son or daughter or whatever, as opposed to an annoyance is a step in the right direction.

None of this makes it any less horrible though.

Grow up, dude. That's so horifically uncalled for.

"Hey dude, say something shocking!"

"Sweeeeeeeeet!"

Blue Jays, what the **** is wrong with you?

He is a piece of ****. Thats what.

humor can be either a form of coping or a form of denial. not sure which that was, though.

RIP. Like someone else said, I avoid trucks at all cost. A trucker really can't be expected to notice a cyclist in his blind spot, and its very easy to be knocked under the things. I think a few cyclists in NYC have been killed this way. I want to know why this cab turned into the rider, though, was he trying to change lanes? How did he not notice a rider in his 10 or 11 o'clock? Could it have been intentional? I hope not, but with the crazy people behind wheels it wouldn't shock me. Some people shouldn't be driving.

Oh, please. It's called gallows humor and has been around for hundreds of years. I expressed my sincere regret about the unfortunate death of this kid in post# 4 as well.

the ****ed up thing is, i've been in many situations with cabs here that could have ended my life. these dude's are ****ing douch bags.

i've had one pull up on the side of me and tell me he was going to swerve me off the road and tried to do it, and i didn't do anything, he just pulled up to the side and said that i don't be long on the road and politely i said "what ever dude" then he threatened me. after all of this, we come to a light and i just stop in front of him while the light was red and he hit the gas and nearly knocked me off my bike, so i pulled my U-lock out and told him to chill the **** out, then he gets out of his cab....this is all while he has a passenger...we exchanged words and i took off.

in general...not relating to this horrible situation.... cars / cabs / etc. should undergo a longer, more extensive and informative driving school, one that has a session on the rights of a cyclist.

as it is, driving school is a joke, and it's NOT manditory.

driving should be a PRIVILEGE not a right...and if you **** up, i.e. driving aggressively and accidently hitting a cyclist, you're licence should be revoked.

+1

+infinity....(>x<)

that doesn't look right...

i'd have handled that **** differently, but there've been times here where i've been read to throw down and i figure if the ******bag behind the wheel had any ****ing cajones, he'd step out from behind the 3000 lb. shield and see what he could do with his barehhands....i guarantee i'm in better shape. in any case where i've challenged motorists to come out of their cars and try to fight me, they always decline.

So prefacing anything you say about someone's death with, "Really, very tragic... just terrible, oh my." absolves you from then going on to make jokes about their corpse? Uh, no; that's not how it works.

What you said was tasteless and horrible. I know that strangers die every day, but that doesn't grant you or me a right to laugh at them.

Idiot.

It must truly be an empowering feeling for the idiocracy, when they step inside their four doors and achieve such bravado, and such cowardice at the same time. It bereaves me when people take luxuries to the extreme.

****. the seriousness of this just hit me. i live on huntington and ride through there literally every day.

Igneous Faction, you're escalating your blood pressure. Take a chill pill, brother.

next time, i don't think i'll leave until they get out, i don't care what sort of rush package i have getting old on my back.

or maybe i should pull out that zen book i have and start reading it...

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?