An unleashed pit bull chased me for a block on my commute this morning and it fucking sucked
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I would add that EUC folks are dorks, but like scooters, they’re still fun in spite of the fact that I would never want to be seen on one.
I have ridden one and can attest that it’s fun. Borrowed from a friend that is the prototypical dork-bro that would have such a thing.
Same dork-bro built a EV scooter thingy that handles like a pile of shit and will go 60mph, so that supports your assertion.
I’d be among those Dork-bros if I weren’t certain that the novelty would wear off pretty quickly and I’d be stuck with a pile of plastic, wires, and lithium ion batteries that would be difficult to repurpose.
That said, I do want some kinda nirvana electric non-bike thing that will haul my ass at extra-legal speeds approximately 40 miles to work.
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ewe!
This morning I saw a guy on a mono wheel surreptitiously take a video of a guy on an electric skateboard.
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Dorkoboros
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Dorkception
that’s when you trackstand your bike on top of a onewheel
City is going to start rolling our weekend parking enforcement on downtown streets.
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The tears of cagers are never not delicious
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The amount of people that can’t grasp the concept that street parking is in fact a public resource and that time limits on how long you can park your shitbox are actually quite fair is breathtaking (yet not at all shocking).
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Fun surprise on my way to work this morning. The cross street — Portland — has a giant buffered bike lane. But it’s also an insanely wide 2-lane one way, so drivers often treat it and its northbound companion like a freeway and go 50+ despite the 25mph speed limit.
After seeing several overturned cars (two on a single commute once!), many absolutely crushed parked cars, people driving in the wide bike lane to skip traffic, destroyed fences, and a smashed house all along this “bike route” I almost never take it and use adjacent neighborhood streets.
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Yikes!
you mean the no longer ambiguous express lane?
Maybe we’ve been wrong this whole time. Maybe the flexiposts worked.
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I’m riding to work now in the neighborhood street between the two terrible streets and just now witnessed a collision lol
I don’t care what anyone says, after a life spent in Los Angeles, rural methlandia NorCal, Seattle, and Minneapolis, I can say with confidence Minnesotans are the worst, most aggressive, and dangerous drivers I’ve ever encountered
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They’re scarier than British Columbians even. And that’s a high bar to clear
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Yikes!
I think drivers everywhere have just gotten shittier with each passing year with more distractions all the time, but yeah we’re pretty terrible drivers here.
Park and Portland have always been treated like express routes, but the bike lanes definitely made it worse and made the road appear more open, which every car brain interprets as “me go faster now”. 
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Like, there’s no way they didn’t do that intentionally just to be a dick, right?
I have neighbors who do this every day blocking the sidewalk across the street from an elementary school and a school bus stop lol
I like to think this is the clearest indication that someone has never left their house except by car
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I parked like this yesterday because there were no spaces on the street and I had 2 kids and way too much shit to unload. I did move it though after my wife got done with work and I wasn’t the sole child care provider because I felt bad about blocking Even though my street doesn’t get much traffic in terms of cars or pedestrians and has those sidewalk bumps every foot because of the hill so I’m definitely not blocking someone in a wheelchair or something. OR AT LEAST THIS IS HOW I RATIONALIZE MY TERRIBLE BEHAVIOR TO MYSELF.
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