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[roadrunnertwice]

Link-wander resulted in rediscovering JWZ's epically bitchy bike advice post from '08, so I'm sharing. Fun game: send it to a friend and try to guess how much of it they'll violently disagree with!

(I actually quite like the post, except for the part about riding on sidewalks. An oft-overlooked virtue of the abrasive geek textual aesthetic is its implicit assertion that the problem at hand is a: knowable and b: not too many levels harder than whatever else you have to deal with on a regular basis. It's reassuring, if that's what you're wired for.)

Comments

[copracat]

I agree with a lot of what JWZ says but not quite with how it is said. That's a post that appears framed to maximise offensiveness.

Cycling is a way of improving my life, not adding jobs to it. I don't want to be a bike mechanic in my spare time. The best way to cycle is to choose the things that suit how you want to live and what you want to achieve.

Is it legal to cycle on the pedestrian footpaths in SF? In my city you have to be under 12.

[jld]

“…in San Francisco it's against the law for anyone 13 and older to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk.”