All
Cop cars
Are
Burning
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Riding home on the beach path last night, I dinged my bell at an e-moto kid riding recklessly and he did that fun swerve move where he pretends he’s gonna hit me. As he passed by he yelled “what are you going to do about it pussy?”. Immediately behind him was a group of probably 5-6 other e-moto/e-bike kids. I didn’t respond but it certainly harshed my browns after an otherwise nice bike ride and made me think that I am not prepared to defend myself from a group of angry teens.
I don’t want to sound like one of those Karens on Nextdoor complaining about e-bikes but what the fuck.
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Teens gonna teen.
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Is this on the Strand/Braude? I used to ride on the Ballona path after work as late as 11-12pm but never had problems, granted this was 2-3 years ago
City teens or beach teens, teens gonna teen 
Yeah, strand path between Manhattan and Hermosa. I ride on the strand/Ballona path at night once or twice per week and have never encountered an issue…
Here’s this, will it embed?
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It did!
Wow those bikes are durable
I regularly just ride them into cars when people are being jackasses
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Jeep hits the Camry, then bumps the bike. Then it runs the bike over and hits the bollard on the way out. I agree with the guy on the green bike.
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My buds in Chicago tell me you have had some nice fires in the west loop area recently.
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Does Philly have sideshows? People that blatantly ignore any and all traffic laws? Not really traffic related, but an epidemic of bipping?
A quick google search tells me they do. Takeovers of freeways? How about a major bridge connecting two of the most populous cities in the US?
You’d think being on a bridge and all, the LEOs could figure something out on one end or maybe the other. I hate to play the “my city is worse than yours game” but…
At least 15 people shot at Lake Merritt gathering on Juneteenth, Oakland police say
Bipping is coded for me as getting hit with shells in mario kart and I’m now going to assume that this is happening to ppl IRL.
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I love a purple martin as much as the next guy but this is ridiculous! The Martin nests are actually closer to a parking space on the street, but noooooo he had to do it.
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Is this the safe place to complain about jackass humans working at UPS? Using a new hamlet that arrived in a box like this? Yeah nah.
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i was so good about sticking to my new years resolution to stop engaging with drivers but i couldn’t resist hitting the mirror of an elderly lady who was fully driving down the wrong side of the road, on the wrong side of the median, as drivers swerved out of the way. She did a u-turn (see? direct action works!) so that she could spend the next few km’s honking, swerving into the bikelane, brake-checking, and screaming “I’m going to report you”
back to not engaging
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I had a horrible interaction this morning on the way home from our first beach trip of the day.
We were riding on a small, one way residential street with a painted bike lane on the right side with cars to the right of that. I was riding my bakfiets with Roli in the box and ash was on the green Madsen in front of us.
I was riding on the bike lane line to stay out of the door zone because we were a block from the beach and tons of people were hotboxing their cars before going to the beach and not lookin out.
I heard a toot toot toot from behind. I just kept riding on the line expecting them to pass as there was plenty of room, but he just toot toot tooted again and again and again so I pulled to the right to let him pass.
He didn’t pass though.
He pulled right up next to us and screamed at me through his closed window, stabbing his finger in my direction.
I said, “Take it easy man, I’ve got a little kid with me!”
He didn’t take it easy though, he kept screaming and pointing through his closed window.
We came to the end of the block and he pulled ahead a bit and it looked like he was just gonna blow the stop sign and turn left so I stopped a little too hard at the crosswalk, screeching my perpetually noisy rear brake.
When he heard my brake screech, he slammed on his brakes, rolled down his window and put it in reverse!
He didn’t actually start moving in reverse, but I could hear him screaming incorrectly through the open window about six feet in front and to the left of me.
I screamed “GO!!!” in my biggest and most fearsome voice.
He screamed more nonsense and I screamed “GO!!!” again.
Then Ash yelled some thing at me that I don’t remember and we turned right and rode away as fast as we could and made it home without further incident.
Our second trip, to a different beach, went off without a hitch. but I been fucked up with adrenaline ever since the incident up to and including this very moment as I type this.
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damn, two beach trips in a day? chicago rules. we did one trip from philly today and it was a 60 mile drive. i didn’t almost run over anyone, i didn’t endanger anyone, but 3.5 hours on the beach was a 7 hour ordeal. it was fucking cold though and it was so so nice coming from 97°F though. goosebumps from the cold breeze. water was fully untenable but i am a sand not water guy anyway. and it took me a 4 hour drive to get to philly in the first place!
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I wonder whether wearing a jingoistic USA bike jersey like an NRA one would help in this case. Can always change shirts when you get to your destination
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Every now and again a friend of mine would ride around with his AR strapped to his back. Definitely never got fucked with. Not adopting this technique but I do fantasize about it.
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