Results tagged “bicycling”

Lately there's been a lot of brou-ha-ha over the use of the road. Spruce and Pine got some fancy new bike lanes just as reporting of bike-pedestrian accidents went to print. Now, the general hum of Philly hostility is increasing. Who gets to blow which stoplight, and which group gets to most egregiously flout the rules without consequences. Are bicyclists the worst because some idiots insist on riding with their headphones? Or are they the worst kind of scum because hipsters love their fixies? But what about cars? Aren't they the folks with the polluting and the South Philly Roll, the 2-ton death machines, cell phones, and lack of turn signals? And man, those pedestrians. They just walk out into traffic in front of everybody. Everyone hates them.

Although most of the participants in the Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride weren't completely naked, some were. You do see full frontal in the first frame of this video (and later, too). We suggest waiting till you get home to watch, unless you have very open-minded coworkers or a very private office.

Has your bike been sitting in some desolate crawlspace, attracting mounds of dust and spiders in the spokes? Are you regularly suffering the daily indignities of being a SEPTA rider (missing buses, getting trapped underground, getting berated by angry drivers, trapped behind monster-people and monster babies, and the combined nostril burn of urine and lemon-y fresh cleanser)? Or are you really still circling around looking for that elusive parking spot?

This week really isn't short on assholes. Whatever your take on that "Philly-related sports story," there is no denying that the internet is just about exploding. Whenever that happens, we get visited by the jerk-face fairy who turns everyone we know into raving lunatics. But that isn't what this story is about. You already know that story.

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• Torontoist featured video of an absolutely insane series of explosions at a propane facility in the north end of the city last weekend.
• Despite an eventful week at the Olympics, Phillyist focused on local, Philadelphia teams.
• Seattlest, freshly aware of their "Junior High Readability Level," implemented a new weekly feature spotlighting a local they’re totes crushing on. First up, a guy they met at the Seattle Tattoo Expo.

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• Torontoist discovered a warning label affixed to some of the newspaper boxes of one of its daily papers.
• DCist was saddened by the tragic death of 22-year-old bicyclist Alice Swanson, who was killed when a garbage truck ran her over in a busy intersection. A "ghost bike" was erected in her honor just north of Dupont Circle.
• Shanghaiist was caught up all week with the gruesome murder of Canadian model Diana O'Brien.

Photo by TObike from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.