Ticket for not cycling in bike lane

niceonetom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

HurlyBurly

This is hillarious and true obviously. Guy gets a ticket for not using the bike lane and then puts together a video showing how dangerous the bike lane can be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ&feature=youtu.be

Rovi

Excellent stuff!
Here it is embedded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

neilboard

Brilliant, made me laugh!

Beasty

And here it is embedded in a post that was made an hour earlier

Rovi

Oops!

HurlyBurly

sorry hadn't seen that from a quick glance before i posted it

Rovi

Ah feck it, it's worthy of a thread of its own in my opinion.
It IS cycling related after all, and therefore not 'off topic chat'.

Icyseanfitz

haha thats brilliant

morninwood

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/video/sun-exclusive/3629062/Crashing-cyclist-video-is-a-smash.html

That should mandatory viewing for every guarda.

mgmt

The Sun :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

morninwood

Oopsy. Not having the youtube link I couldn't find it posted before. Not that you showed it to me I found it posted twice already (again). Sorry.
(Beasty will be all over this )

Chips Lovell

Threads merged (all three of them now;))

reprazant

http://vimeo.com/24572222

Some of the cyclists in this :eek:

Iwannahurl

Brilliant example of guerilla film-making. And he does all his own stunts, apparently.

868,336 views on YouTube as of one minute ago, and 19561 likes. All since it was uploaded on June 7.

Iwannahurl

reprazant wrote: »

http://vimeo.com/24572222

Some of the cyclists in this :eek:

Hans Monderman designed junction in a civilised European country:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wte5-_gCDQ

fonda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

Iwannahurl

Check out the photo in this post over in the Obnoxious Parking thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=72686404&postcount=3906

Tallon

What a legend

An irate cyclist has pictured himself crashing into obstacles in bike lanes in protest at being hit with a fine.

Casey Neistat, 29, smashed into a police car, taxi, truck and roadworks in New York after he was handed a £33 ticket for riding outside a cycle lane.

He decided to stick rigidly to the letter of the law by staying within the lines and deliberately rode into every obstacle to show how dangerous cycling can be.

Mr Neistat has become a YouTube sensation with more than 700,000 hits in just two days after getting a friend to video his hour-long journey across Manhattan.

During the footage, he said: 'The bicycle lane is not the safest place to be.

'Ticket the people blocking the lanes, not the cyclists.

'They look much more dramatic than they were - the falls. Everything we found, I crashed into. I refused to leave the bike lane.

'I don't feel like the bike lanes are really respected yet.'
But the film-maker said the original aim behind the footage was comedy.

He told the Huffington Post: 'My number one motivation to make this movie was to be funny.

'I’m not trying to rise up against the man. I'm just trying to make a funny movie.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

bcmf

Cool. Havent seen this before.:D

Pherekydes

I haven't seen that one before.

:pac:

Korvanica

me either ... :rolleyes:

EDIT: Threads merged.....now the above seems stupid....

Great video....

Beasty

I think we're heading for a new record with this one;)

Another 2 threads merged

At least it's Friday ....

tomasrojo

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Check out the photo in this post over in the Obnoxious Parking thread:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showp...postcount=3906

Know that well; it's a turn-off halfway down Infirmary Road. Tricky to cross the face of that junction as a pedestrian. When I saw they'd added that pedestrian island I thought that it was to help crossing in some way, but it doesn't really. It actually forces you to cross nearer the junction if you're pushing a stroller, because the island is an obstruction with its high kerbs. The footpath is too narrow to accommodate a stroller as well, which means you end up wheeling on the cycle lane, towards a blind corner. Not very satisfactory. Not sure what it brings to the table for cyclists either.

Tallon

lol, Sorry folks, I just thought it was brilliant

grizzly

Did anyone else think he was going to be badly injured from some of those?

Iwannahurl

grizzly wrote: »

Did anyone else think he was going to be badly injured from some of those?

Brave, foolish, dedicated. Or all three. Great video. A gem.

I just wish he hadn't said the bit about "doing the world a favour"...

Bunnyhopper

Beasty wrote: »

At least it's Friday ....

I can't believe he wasn't wearing a helmet.


:P

alejandro1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

http://jalopnik.com/5810436/watch-biker-prove-futility-of-nyc-bike-laws-by-crashing-over+and+over-again

Watch biker prove futility of NYC bike laws by crashing over-and-over again
Matt Hardigree — After getting a $50 ticket for not riding his bike in the painted "bike lane," this militant bicyclist went out of his way to crash into every obstacle placed in the way of New York City's bicyclists.

DaveyDave

I vaguely recall someone mentioning you can report a car illegally parked in a bike lane and it'll get clamped? If it's true, anyone got the number? I'm getting fed up of having buses fly past me at speed only inches away because assholes park on my mandatory lane. It would still result in them being there, but the fine would make them think to **** off somewhere else.

I'm thinking of getting an air horn to scare the hell out of the drivers just sitting in their cars.

Cookie_Monster

great vid, I just hope somebody in power in NY takes it seriously

DaveyDave wrote: »

I vaguely recall someone mentioning you can report a car illegally parked in a bike lane and it'll get clamped? If it's true, anyone got the number?

I doubt it, who would be allowed, DCC in Dublin maybe, no one else is legally allowed clamp. It hardly solves the issue either as the problem remains there, should reomve the car instead and charge for that, a lot more than a clamp!

Beasty

I've brought a couple of posts over from the broomwagon, just to keep it all together;)

snickerpuss

Fab video but I had to stop watching it because watching him fall over made me wince! I could feel the scrapes on my knees! :P

SerialComplaint

DaveyDave wrote: »

I vaguely recall someone mentioning you can report a car illegally parked in a bike lane and it'll get clamped? If it's true, anyone got the number? I'm getting fed up of having buses fly past me at speed only inches away because assholes park on my mandatory lane. It would still result in them being there, but the fine would make them think to **** off somewhere else.

I'm thinking of getting an air horn to scare the hell out of the drivers just sitting in their cars.

Dublin City Clampers are 01-6022500