How to make time in the city

Awesome clip, but at 53 megabytes, it takes some patience even with broadband.

http://www.nata2.info/humor/movies/nyc-bicycle-dragrace.mpg

 

that is pretty sweet

 

how 'bout filling us in about what its about before we fetch it?

 

An organized but very unofficial bicycle race through the streets of New York City. Only entry requirements are a bicycle and a death wish.

 

hehe. it's pretty amusing. ya gotta love it the best mode of transportation in NY

 

Got it.
Watched it.

Quite a ride. But WAY too dangerous.

 

Brings back memories. Its not as scarry as it looks. When you're really moving its all about timing and motion. The biggest risk are cabbies and pedestrians.

You can't predict what a cabbie is going to do, so it best to blow by them as fast as possible.

And some pedestrians just freeze right in front of you when they see you approach.

 

???
What? You've actually done this kind of stuff???

 

Not in races, but recreationally on the weekends. Staten Island to the Bronx and back, with stops in Brooklyn and Chinatown.

Get your shift timing down, your butt off the seat and use your peripheral vision and it becomes a rush.

The best feeling is pulling in front of cars at top speed just as the light turns green in time for you to pass them and get your ass out of the way.

 

Yeah the pedestrians looked as if they were the most dangered ones especially on the cross walks.

 

Doing that in Memphis would get you killed pretty quick. People down here think yellow light means floor it, and intersection accidents, usually at HIGH speed, are a dime a dozen.

 

I gave up the road bike for mountain bike because I don't care for the noise, and risk posed by the "other guy". Those guys are really skilled riders, I imagine they could ride the trails in the same entertaining fashion. Great clip GT.

 

I'll remember that next time i'm down your way, but I don't have to worry much. I've long since replaced bikers calves for a beer belly.

 

Looks like fun, but as wide as butt is, I’ve have taken a few mirror’s off, and I don’t have the dropdowns handle bars, so I would have scrape some paint off to………

…..when you ride in that style, you have to keep to yourself………..when I’m just out riding, and a driver gets that close, I’ll kick the side, and done it a few times on both motorcycles and bicycles………wobbles