CollinHell

Been riding for almost three years now. When I told my parents I'd drive them to the airport and hold onto their car, I was excited to drive a normal car again and planned to take a few joyrides to Home Depot and Ikea for stuff I normally have to plan around buying.

Nobody told me how much I'd hate driving now! Don't kill me, I know the statistics, but I feel so much more likely to get in an accident than normal when driving around NYC. Sure, I'm potentially safer if a real accident happens, but it's not my car and I'm not trying to wreck it. People give me way less space, I can't accelerate away from dangerous cars, I can't get out from wolf packs to clear areas, my blind spots are bigge

The best time I ever had in traffic. I've never done a group ride before and always been a little intimidated, but today it happened on its own.

I don't like to lane split at any sort of speed, but today was bumper-to-bumper all the way home in NYC traffic, so I was lane filtering under 20mph with one bike about a mile ahead of me. I just figured he got tired or something and kept going. By the time I reached him, he was holding out his arm through the lanes like he wanted just me to stop, so I pulled in to the spot next to him.

Sure enough, there was an NYPD cop a few lanes ahead of us, with plenty of shoulder if it wanted to pursue lawbreakers. It's extremely rare to be pulled over by