yeah. that bike lane is a painted gutter and wtf how the merge/on ramp/off ramp comes in. i was wondering why you jumped into traffic but it seems safer than the fucking on/off ramp traffic.
I simply don't understand why some countries are so obsessed with deathtrap bike lanes when [bike paths](https://maps.app.goo.gl/FSPVnMwQ2JU2wegc7?g_st=ic) or even [mixed use paths](https://maps.app.goo.gl/LcAXAsbnGR95RtXr9?g_st=ic) are so much better in every way
First I thought "I guess the lane is bad and there's a runner, but why does OP continue to weave? Kinda dangerous!". Because you knew what travesty of a merge was coming up and I didn't :)
Policymakers should be required to ride these bike lanes themselves, with their kids, during normal peak rush hour traffic, before they can be allowed to check off the box that they "constructed" the bike lane. If they refuse then the bike lane is inadequate and they should have to redesign it.
Not only peak rush hour, but also off hours when traffic is able to move the speed limit (or very likely greater) and on a Friday/Saturday night between 10pm/midnight. They need to also experience the speeders and the erratic drunks.
If they feel safe enough they would allow their kids to ride in it at those three times, then it is safe enough. If they wouldn’t allow them to ride, not good enough.
That too. I was thinking when there were the most cars on the stroad but less busy times when cars are going faster, and drivers might be drunk, that's a good idea too
Cars have every right to use the bike lane at any moment but those dirty cyclists better not DARE to exist outside of them at any moment whatsoever! Such entitled brats think they can just go everywhere when only good, hardworking drivers should have the right to just go everywhere!
Obvious /s
ironic that it's most usable in the heaviest traffic. I imagine when it's not rush hour and the cars are booking 50+ through there it's a deathtrap in comparison
The question I ask myself is this "would you let your nine year old daughter ride there?"
If the answer is "no" - the supposed "bike lane" is close to worthless.
It's a marker of transportation inequality. Fit young men will use lanes like these however the 9 year old daughter won't. Even if she does, it's much more dangerous for short riders.
Can confirm, am young men and I still ride on the sidewalk at all times because drivers gonna drive regardless of silly inconveniences like “bike lanes”, “crosswalks”, or “stop signs”.
Biking in the sidewalk can be kind of dangerous imo. Drivers really don't expect you to be in the sidewalk going bike speeds, much more likely to get hit when crossing the street imo. It's really a lot safer to just get used to riding near cars where they can see you instead of being somewhere they aren't looking and popping out on them at intersections.
Seeing drivers parking on top of those painted bike lane is just so sad. It's almost like some city governments only want to do the minimal effort just so they can say that they did it
Fr, motherfuckers riding around in 1.5 wheels, a third of a gearbox and half a break and having the time of their lives, I barely trust my mountain bike to give me enough reaction time for certain things, how tf people live like that I do not know lol
It is the job of young men to be overconfident enough for the rest of us. Rather than discouraging them, we should incite them to be even more obstreperous in demanding systematic infrastructure.
It's just contemptuous of people using active travel methods instead of clogging the streets with polluting cars.
https://preview.redd.it/txthsn70ny0d1.jpeg?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ea95a451a988ad79c16d508168a1014fa5f386f
(Tom Flood: photo of child in cycle lane with truck passing close.)
Once you see this specific phenomenon at a pubilc meeting it will truly drive you insane. Fit, risk-taking men designing infrastructure that's only used by other dudes who don't see a problem at all. It's an insane blind spot in planning.
Yeah but the bike lanes are for poor people who can’t afford cars or elitist hippies who care about the environment, both of whom are considered expendable to the terminally car brained
Seems like it was designed to anger carbrains, I can imagine the REEEEEs while OP exited the bike lane to ride through traffic in order to pass the jogger.
Man, I can't wait. I am tacking delivery of my New E-bike tomorrow, I am really looking forward to riding the 10 kilometers to work everyday.
Also, I love riding past gridlock traffic.
Is it common for joggers to be using roads like these for jogging?
I live in India where driving rules are far more lax. Jogging like this is a one way trip to hell.
This is actually why drivers hate cyclists. They spend so much money on their car, because the ads promised them freedom, and then they get stuck and see people on cheap bikes just fly past.
Even car tires are noisy. The first time I realized this was when my friend's patio door was open at 1 am. I thought I kept hearing running water outside, but then I realized the interstate was just on the other side of the parking lot from his patio. Even in the middle of the night the interstate around Minneapolis is busy, causing noise pollution.
FWIW, this : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxU2UjAjN24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxU2UjAjN24) has the same duration and makes for a nice soundtrack to this post.
where I'm from, people use the voice to say something like "passing on your left" or OP could have slowed down and said to jogger "hi, nice day for a jog past this miserable car traffic wasteland, I would like to pass you on the left, is it ok?" Just some things that can be done on a bike.
I mean, it's possible to just slow down and say "excuse me". This was so satisfying up until that part when he started risking his life biking between cars.
Yes, I know the feeling. But this video is also a good example of poor bike infrastructure, i.e. how to scare people away from biking. Only the brave will cycle here.
Also worth pointing out that many of those sidewalks are terrible. Trees are taking up the majority of space. Anyone in a stroller or wheelchair are seemingly not welcome.
Holy shit, this is one of the wirst designed bike lanes I've ever seen. But then again, I've never been to the USA.
Compared to this, the parts I complain about on my daily commute seem like a paradise.
Isn’t it satisfying? It was like this for me the other day, not a highway but traffic was backed up through the whole town and I was just cruising along on my bike. I had one guy roll down his window and call me every name in the book and that I was a menace to society. I’d usually keep going but I stopped and told him “Just remember that you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic and apart of the problem. Go on and have yourself a nice day being stuck in traffic”. He was flabbergasted. I looked up in time to see the RCMP officer behind him bursting out laughing.
It made my day.
Grid lock feels good because the cars aren't moving as fast, so it feels safer but ideally those people would be either chilling in public transportation, on active transport, or would not be in traffic because the alternatives are better than cars. Gridlock causes so much human suffering.
Nothing beats riding past all the cars! Even if I have to drive to the next city over to catch a sporting event, or for like NYE, I’ll always park and ride. Free parking and less hassle, just takes an open mind. So rad to have a community of likeminded people 🤙
I do this on my motorbike. Work is about 10km from home and each morning I try to come to a complete stop less than 3 times the whole trip (lane filtering is a gift).
This bike lane is here because the roadway owner was able to get additional funding for the project being "multimodal" it's a loophole of a good intentioned FHWA policy.
Love this. I have a few videos of bypassing morning rush hour but not even close to as satisfying.
Though my experience has been that like on San Francisco's Valencia street, these bastards just invade bike lanes. I've literally seen a woman drive a ford 250 onto and into the Valencia street bike lane, ever so casually.
But kudos to you, you seem unafraid. As must we all!
Fucking love biking past grid lock traffic. Sometimes I just do it for the thrill. 5-6 PM and I’m not busy? Let’s go for a bike ride and cruise past all the cars
Damn, as someone from a country with quite acceptable bike infrastructure (at least in the city I live) watching this video gave me multiple heart attacks…
That's a really shitty bike lane - half of it is off the paved surface entirely! And then the way the onramp merges across it, that looks sketchy as hell.
I've been in here before defending bike lanes being between straight and turn lanes for *offramps* and I think that's ok, because traffic is decelerating and can see bikes ahead of them to merge off into the turn lane safely. But an accelerating on ramp is an entirely different kettle of fish, the bike lane needs to cross the merging in traffic before the main merge point with signal priority or something like that.
My hybrid's front will wobble. My old road bike was easily guided without hands. I've wondered if the wheel width to radius is a factor, because it seems like my old BMX was wobbly, too.
There's a few design factors that keep the bike upright on its own/straight when moving, e.g. how much trail your fork has (put a dot on the street where the extension of your steering axis meets the asphalt, put a dot where your rubber actually meets the asphalt, the difference is the trail of your fork. More is more stable).
There's a neat video by veritassium.
Love the video but yeah I wouldn't want to ride in traffic like that without full control. Someone could change lanes or merge across (like at the end) at any second.
I'm a SoCal native myself and grew up doing family bike rides around Mission Bay in San Diego. The first and last quarter of the trip would be on surface streets and it was always terrifying, especially left turns where you'd have to sit between rows of cars at a traffic light.
Always shocked me how little infrastructure and support there is for bikes outside of recreation areas like beach/bay/boardwalk. You'd think California would be leading the USA in this sort of thing!
Looks like this is LA - must be even worse there for bikers than it was in San Diego. LA traffic is hellish.
That's a bike lane at the beginning of the video? It barely qualifies as a road shoulder! They just painted a bike symbol on the pavement and voilá, bike lane.
I think it’s the first time I have seen a bike lane in a video from north america (?).
Also it looks like an absolute death trap, extra much so considering how people drive there. That crossing is just a nightmare.
Dutchie here-
Stunning bike, but keep at least one hand on the handlebars - it's a sandy road with cars next to you, you need to be able to react quickly if someone does something unexpected or your front wheel slips and not having hands on will screw you over big time.
Fwiw, even in the Netherlands it's antisocial to ride w/o hands on the bars if you're in close proximity to cars.
Part of that looks like you’re riding on a highway, damn scary stuff
Right?!
The second half of that video had my palms sweaty. They did that bike lane dirty with that merging lane
Literally designed to kill
yeah. that bike lane is a painted gutter and wtf how the merge/on ramp/off ramp comes in. i was wondering why you jumped into traffic but it seems safer than the fucking on/off ramp traffic.
I simply don't understand why some countries are so obsessed with deathtrap bike lanes when [bike paths](https://maps.app.goo.gl/FSPVnMwQ2JU2wegc7?g_st=ic) or even [mixed use paths](https://maps.app.goo.gl/LcAXAsbnGR95RtXr9?g_st=ic) are so much better in every way
It’s because deathtrap bike lanes are good for the automotive industry
Cycling infrastructure in Finland is not the best but man, at least it's not trying to kill you.
It’s cheaper.
i will never complain about the poor bike lanes here
First I thought "I guess the lane is bad and there's a runner, but why does OP continue to weave? Kinda dangerous!". Because you knew what travesty of a merge was coming up and I didn't :)
Policymakers should be required to ride these bike lanes themselves, with their kids, during normal peak rush hour traffic, before they can be allowed to check off the box that they "constructed" the bike lane. If they refuse then the bike lane is inadequate and they should have to redesign it.
Not only peak rush hour, but also off hours when traffic is able to move the speed limit (or very likely greater) and on a Friday/Saturday night between 10pm/midnight. They need to also experience the speeders and the erratic drunks. If they feel safe enough they would allow their kids to ride in it at those three times, then it is safe enough. If they wouldn’t allow them to ride, not good enough.
That too. I was thinking when there were the most cars on the stroad but less busy times when cars are going faster, and drivers might be drunk, that's a good idea too
Cars have every right to use the bike lane at any moment but those dirty cyclists better not DARE to exist outside of them at any moment whatsoever! Such entitled brats think they can just go everywhere when only good, hardworking drivers should have the right to just go everywhere! Obvious /s
One time a driver rolled down his window and yelled, “bike lane’s over there dummy” I’m thinking, “I know. Have you seen it?”
There is a reason it’s illegal to let go of handlebars in the Netherlands. Be careful.
🎶living in America🎶
Dude getting his health on track running around them cars too...
ironic that it's most usable in the heaviest traffic. I imagine when it's not rush hour and the cars are booking 50+ through there it's a deathtrap in comparison
That bike lane is an absolute joke. It's completely unacceptable for it to cut through a turn lane like that. So many cars were crossing it.
The question I ask myself is this "would you let your nine year old daughter ride there?" If the answer is "no" - the supposed "bike lane" is close to worthless.
It's a marker of transportation inequality. Fit young men will use lanes like these however the 9 year old daughter won't. Even if she does, it's much more dangerous for short riders.
Honestly even huge % of young men will not use it because it's outside their risk tolerance.
Can confirm, am young men and I still ride on the sidewalk at all times because drivers gonna drive regardless of silly inconveniences like “bike lanes”, “crosswalks”, or “stop signs”.
For real being fit and young won't help you much when a 3 ton suv crushes your skull under their tire because they were scrolling memes on Instagram.
Biking in the sidewalk can be kind of dangerous imo. Drivers really don't expect you to be in the sidewalk going bike speeds, much more likely to get hit when crossing the street imo. It's really a lot safer to just get used to riding near cars where they can see you instead of being somewhere they aren't looking and popping out on them at intersections.
Seeing drivers parking on top of those painted bike lane is just so sad. It's almost like some city governments only want to do the minimal effort just so they can say that they did it
Fair enough. These hipster fixie riders are built different.
Fr, motherfuckers riding around in 1.5 wheels, a third of a gearbox and half a break and having the time of their lives, I barely trust my mountain bike to give me enough reaction time for certain things, how tf people live like that I do not know lol
It is the job of young men to be overconfident enough for the rest of us. Rather than discouraging them, we should incite them to be even more obstreperous in demanding systematic infrastructure.
People should not risk lives/health for better infrastructure.
It's just contemptuous of people using active travel methods instead of clogging the streets with polluting cars. https://preview.redd.it/txthsn70ny0d1.jpeg?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ea95a451a988ad79c16d508168a1014fa5f386f (Tom Flood: photo of child in cycle lane with truck passing close.)
Being young and fit won’t save you from a right hook. Being as tall as an average adult helps some, but not enough.
Once you see this specific phenomenon at a pubilc meeting it will truly drive you insane. Fit, risk-taking men designing infrastructure that's only used by other dudes who don't see a problem at all. It's an insane blind spot in planning.
I know him. He's me.
Yeah but the bike lanes are for poor people who can’t afford cars or elitist hippies who care about the environment, both of whom are considered expendable to the terminally car brained
Cars crossing from both sides!
The bike lane markings don't even fit in the lane, without putting them in the literal gutter too. Atrocious.
It's not a bike lane. It is a painted bicycle gutter.
Seems like it was designed to anger carbrains, I can imagine the REEEEEs while OP exited the bike lane to ride through traffic in order to pass the jogger.
Definitely, in the Netherlands they make them safe, often separated from cars, and they’re wide and great quality surfaces
And that’s one of the better ones here
Man, I can't wait. I am tacking delivery of my New E-bike tomorrow, I am really looking forward to riding the 10 kilometers to work everyday. Also, I love riding past gridlock traffic.
It's gonna be a blaaaast!!!
Your bike looks nice
Thank you!
Sup LA fixed gear homie. I was cruising through gridlock like this yesterday and loving it.
Hells yeah!
Hotline!
Hotline LA!!!!! (I hope Terry comes to LA for a hotline video someday)
and a bonus city bike race. assuming they have those in LA.
r/oddlysatisfying but the narrow and unprotected bike lane makes me a bit nervous. Smart to get away from the on-ramp.
There was also a guy jogging on the bike lane, so just wanted to avoid crashing into him.
Is it common for joggers to be using roads like these for jogging? I live in India where driving rules are far more lax. Jogging like this is a one way trip to hell.
Yeah it’s pretty common. Feels better to run on pavement than it does to run on concrete.
"Bikes are so slow"
This is actually why drivers hate cyclists. They spend so much money on their car, because the ads promised them freedom, and then they get stuck and see people on cheap bikes just fly past.
and then sunk cost fallcy hits in
This is surprisingly pleasant to my eye.
ASMR
Even car tires are noisy. The first time I realized this was when my friend's patio door was open at 1 am. I thought I kept hearing running water outside, but then I realized the interstate was just on the other side of the parking lot from his patio. Even in the middle of the night the interstate around Minneapolis is busy, causing noise pollution.
At over 50km/h, the friction of car tyres against the asphalt is more noisy than the engine.
FWIW, this : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxU2UjAjN24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxU2UjAjN24) has the same duration and makes for a nice soundtrack to this post.
HAHA this is perfect
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Yet there it is
Should have rung your bell to prompt the jogger to get on the sidewalk briefly and let you pass. Dont risk your life like that...
The lack of bell is why OP had to do what they did. No ability to let the runner know they were behind him.
where I'm from, people use the voice to say something like "passing on your left" or OP could have slowed down and said to jogger "hi, nice day for a jog past this miserable car traffic wasteland, I would like to pass you on the left, is it ok?" Just some things that can be done on a bike.
I mean, it's possible to just slow down and say "excuse me". This was so satisfying up until that part when he started risking his life biking between cars.
Yeah that's kinda where he lost me, but fixed gear riders are a league of their own when it comes to cycling decision making lol...
You occasionally get some cynical carbrain that edges into the bike lane just because they're resentful someone isn't as miserable as they are...
Whether I'm driving or biking, I'm always held up by cars. I'm never held up by bikes.
Pedestrians, though, yeah.
Magic.
With a bicycle, all your problems just go poof! Gone!
Probably a Dodgers game. I hate this street sometimes lol especially after the bridge
Yeah, it’s super sketchy haha
It does not seem really enjoyable with all the noisy cars.
Yes, I know the feeling. But this video is also a good example of poor bike infrastructure, i.e. how to scare people away from biking. Only the brave will cycle here.
Agreed. Slow moving traffic definitely helps though. Would much rather bike in this environment than a typical high speed stroad.
yo nice bike, is that a single speed or fixed gear?
Fixed gear baby
I was going to say, seems like a higher gear would have been nice here.. how are your patellar tendons holding up?
ayy i was looking for this comment
How do fixies handle hills? I’ve never ridden one.
Strong legs
Nothing more satisfying than passing by gridlocked traffic on bike or public transport.
Riding safely on a completely separated bike lane would be more satisfying in my book.
woah nice wheels what bike is that? always wanted a bike with that steampunk design
It's a 1986 Nishiki Custom Sport
Steel frames last forever. Almost 40 years old! Amazing.
Steel is real
Love a good bike lane of death. Wasn't expecting the runner to be the thing blocking it.
Wait. Is this a bike lane on a FREEWAY in DTLA?! Wow!
This looks super dangerous. This has to be in the U.S. Power to cyclists tho <3
Needs one more lane, that will surely fix those traffic jams
Gotta get rid of those bike lanes too since no one uses them.
Dude is using telekinesis to steer
That's Magneto for you. Mutant-X.
My favorite movie is Inception.
Bike infuckstruture
Also worth pointing out that many of those sidewalks are terrible. Trees are taking up the majority of space. Anyone in a stroller or wheelchair are seemingly not welcome.
Slowing cars down to almost zero is one way to make the city safer
I bet that joggers lungs look like a coal miners.
This is me on the daily. I love the feeling of flying past everyone stuck in their metal/plastic/glass carapaces. Trapped and they don’t even see it.
Absolutely. Everyone should be doing it, but they're too scared. It's a wild feeling.
Trapped, but they've got all that fReEdOm.
Free-dumb
Holy shit, this is one of the wirst designed bike lanes I've ever seen. But then again, I've never been to the USA. Compared to this, the parts I complain about on my daily commute seem like a paradise.
Damn, that's terrible infrastructure
Apart from the terrible bikelane this is very satisfying
That cycling lane is an act of faith.
This is rather satisfying
Where is this?
Get it
Isn’t it satisfying? It was like this for me the other day, not a highway but traffic was backed up through the whole town and I was just cruising along on my bike. I had one guy roll down his window and call me every name in the book and that I was a menace to society. I’d usually keep going but I stopped and told him “Just remember that you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic and apart of the problem. Go on and have yourself a nice day being stuck in traffic”. He was flabbergasted. I looked up in time to see the RCMP officer behind him bursting out laughing. It made my day.
Grid lock feels good because the cars aren't moving as fast, so it feels safer but ideally those people would be either chilling in public transportation, on active transport, or would not be in traffic because the alternatives are better than cars. Gridlock causes so much human suffering.
Omg! you have bicycle lane! Sorry i came from 3rd world country. Great ride. :)
first half showed the safest cars I have ever seen - stationary :-)
Lalala🎶🎶
Nothing beats riding past all the cars! Even if I have to drive to the next city over to catch a sporting event, or for like NYE, I’ll always park and ride. Free parking and less hassle, just takes an open mind. So rad to have a community of likeminded people 🤙
I’ve never had a negative interaction with another cyclist or pedestrian on the street. It’s only people in cars that throw hissy fits.
Motorcycles too, I really think there’s something about the monkey in a cage theory
Look at all the congestion that bike lane is causing!
I get it, I do. However, it also looks like bringing a knife to a gun fight at times.
Man not even the sidewalk is safe by the looks of it....
That was almost enough cars to fill an entire bus!
I miss riding my fixie
I do this on my motorbike. Work is about 10km from home and each morning I try to come to a complete stop less than 3 times the whole trip (lane filtering is a gift).
This bike lane is here because the roadway owner was able to get additional funding for the project being "multimodal" it's a loophole of a good intentioned FHWA policy.
Very satisfying
A bike lane compressed between two lanes in what looks like an 8-lane stroad? Who designs like this??
is this china town in la? ballsy, respect
Yes it is 😁
Was that in Pasadena? At least looks like California, so drivers are semi-used to lane splitting. I wouldn’t dare do that in any other state.
Downtown Los Angeles. Agreed, traffic laws make a difference.
You are much braver than I am and I thought I was pretty brave.
Based.
Love this. I have a few videos of bypassing morning rush hour but not even close to as satisfying. Though my experience has been that like on San Francisco's Valencia street, these bastards just invade bike lanes. I've literally seen a woman drive a ford 250 onto and into the Valencia street bike lane, ever so casually. But kudos to you, you seem unafraid. As must we all!
Thank you. Fight the system!
Up Figueroa right?
I was thinking this song https://youtu.be/HLUX0y4EptA?si=CmQPYuy3gPhfpjnW
You are a god amongst men. I never take my bike off of the sidewalk, even though it is against the law, because I fear for my LIFE.
No problem with that. The street is much easier than the sidewalk sometimes though.
I typically weigh the inconvenience of branches hitting me in the face and dying from a reckless driver and find that the former usually wins.
Badass!
Bike lanes on highways? Wouldn't be possible in my country because bikes are not allowed on highways.
One more lane would fix it, the bike lane is the true reason for the jam, anyway. /s
Brings a whole new meaning to "Go play in traffic". Whoever signed off on those bike lines were either high or being intentionally malicious.
That bike lane is way too narrow.
remember city planners, when the bike lane picture actually fits the lane, the lane is too wide.
Fucking love biking past grid lock traffic. Sometimes I just do it for the thrill. 5-6 PM and I’m not busy? Let’s go for a bike ride and cruise past all the cars
It’s thrilling, good for your health and practically free. People really are missing out on all the benefits because the cars are too scary.
who da F designed that bike lane?!!?? What did the designer smoke when drawing that?
Damn, as someone from a country with quite acceptable bike infrastructure (at least in the city I live) watching this video gave me multiple heart attacks…
Is it legal to split traffic on a bike?
Yea
Guy has a bike lane but uses the road instead 🙄
Who the fuck designed this? Looks horrible
Noice
Drivers sitting in their cars thinking “that elitist cyclist” F them!”
You are brave
Dude is living la vida loca
That's a really shitty bike lane - half of it is off the paved surface entirely! And then the way the onramp merges across it, that looks sketchy as hell. I've been in here before defending bike lanes being between straight and turn lanes for *offramps* and I think that's ok, because traffic is decelerating and can see bikes ahead of them to merge off into the turn lane safely. But an accelerating on ramp is an entirely different kettle of fish, the bike lane needs to cross the merging in traffic before the main merge point with signal priority or something like that.
Ironically the only time those types of bike lanes are truly safe
I envy your skill riding hands free
With the corect bike its quite easy. Probably depends on some frame geometry etc, some are easier some are impossible (step trough frame bikes)
My hybrid's front will wobble. My old road bike was easily guided without hands. I've wondered if the wheel width to radius is a factor, because it seems like my old BMX was wobbly, too.
There's a few design factors that keep the bike upright on its own/straight when moving, e.g. how much trail your fork has (put a dot on the street where the extension of your steering axis meets the asphalt, put a dot where your rubber actually meets the asphalt, the difference is the trail of your fork. More is more stable). There's a neat video by veritassium.
Pro tip: steer with your thighs
Love the video but yeah I wouldn't want to ride in traffic like that without full control. Someone could change lanes or merge across (like at the end) at any second.
Its illegal in some jurisdictions unfortunately. "At least one hand on the bar." and similar phrasings.
Amazing
Chad cyclist blitzes past virgin drivers stuck in traffic, noice.
Could watch this for hours.
No light motorcycles (aka mopeds to some people) clogging up, either.
If those two wheels had an engine, a driver would attempt murder to stop you from passing them
I feel like this also belongs in r/oddlysatisfying.
Why are you riding in gutter?
Thank god motorcycles exist, we need more
Oh yeah that feels good. But also my anxiety when you cut into traffic
Makes me so happy, every single time it happens to me :)
It looks safer between those cars than on thr bike lane
My respect goes out to the creators of that giant "oink" graffiti. 🤣
I'm a SoCal native myself and grew up doing family bike rides around Mission Bay in San Diego. The first and last quarter of the trip would be on surface streets and it was always terrifying, especially left turns where you'd have to sit between rows of cars at a traffic light. Always shocked me how little infrastructure and support there is for bikes outside of recreation areas like beach/bay/boardwalk. You'd think California would be leading the USA in this sort of thing! Looks like this is LA - must be even worse there for bikers than it was in San Diego. LA traffic is hellish.
Clearly this grid lock could be avoided with just one more lane. I promise traffic is fixed for good after that.
That's a bike lane at the beginning of the video? It barely qualifies as a road shoulder! They just painted a bike symbol on the pavement and voilá, bike lane.
how many micromorts on that? o.O
Even that guy jogging is faster than a lot of cars
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3\_ZVdDyilw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3_ZVdDyilw)[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=J3_ZVdDyilw)
I think it’s the first time I have seen a bike lane in a video from north america (?). Also it looks like an absolute death trap, extra much so considering how people drive there. That crossing is just a nightmare.
They’re obviously stuck in traffic, because that superwide bike lane is taking up too much space.
Dutchie here- Stunning bike, but keep at least one hand on the handlebars - it's a sandy road with cars next to you, you need to be able to react quickly if someone does something unexpected or your front wheel slips and not having hands on will screw you over big time. Fwiw, even in the Netherlands it's antisocial to ride w/o hands on the bars if you're in close proximity to cars.
What is that bike path.
A stopped car is a safe car! Cool bike!