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Community => Non-Thorn Related => Topic started by: Andre Jute on May 22, 2013, 04:37:35 pm

Title: Scofflaw Cyclists in Scofflaw City
Post by: Andre Jute on May 22, 2013, 04:37:35 pm

An entertaining, and horrifying, video...

3-Way Street by Ron Gabriel
http://vimeo.com/24572222

Andre Jute
Appearing by courtesy of James Stewart/RBT

Title: Re: Scofflaw Cyclists in Scofflaw City
Post by: Danneaux on May 22, 2013, 04:40:51 pm

Yikes, Andre! :o I've watched it twice now, and the horrified fascination hasn't waned.

Best,

Dan.

Title: Re: Scofflaw Cyclists in Scofflaw City
Post by: John Saxby on May 22, 2013, 11:35:06 pm

Wot to say?? 

Maybe, "Jaysus, Mary an' Joseph," as me Oirish family 'n' friends would say...  Or a parent's mantra, "Sometimes it's best not to look."  Or maybe Naipaul's observation, "New York is like Calcutta with money." 

Repeat viewings bring forth Conrad's phrase, "The fascination of the abomination"...

All this, from someone who really does like to visit Manhattan, where we have dear friends of forty years' standing. Can't quite believe I used to ride my bike there -- mind you, I was young(er) and (more) foolish then, & when I had my bike there, we lived in the West Bronx, in the 250's near the Hudson, and I tended to head north to reservoir country, not into Manhattan.

We go regularly for a spot of da cultcha, not so much for the cycling cultcha...

J.

Title: Re: Scofflaw Cyclists in Scofflaw City
Post by: JimK on May 23, 2013, 01:33:29 am

Yeah, I was cycling in Manhattan last summer, my first such venture. Wow! That little film doesn't capture the half of it. It's nuts!

Title: Re: Scofflaw Cyclists in Scofflaw City
Post by: ankaradan on May 23, 2013, 08:08:57 am

and I thought Ankara was mad!