Posted on LiveLeak, a video of some people “freeway cycling”:
What interests me is not the sports metal soundtrack accompanying what appears to be fairly banal footage of some cyclists riding down the gaps in near-stationary traffic (something most of us would simply refer to as “commuting”), but the comments. “These guys are roadkill waiting to happen”, “crazy”, “insane” and of course an obligatory “I wopuld of hit him just for fun…asswipe bike on a freeway…fuckin moron.”
More power to them.
Here’s another video along the same lines, but a little higher quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNZSe8Q8-Iw
It does all seem a little tame. Where are the pedestrians blindly wandering into the street? The cab drivers swerving wildly to pick up a passenger standing on a double yellow line? Or the HGVs, dragging cyclists underneath them as they lumber round left hand turns?
I suppose the lack of these things are why you would cycle on a motorway.
Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene