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Bicyclist enjoys the freedom of the open road
By adamg on Wed, 08/05/2015 - 9:00pm
Mike Toomey spotted this bicyclist, without a helmet but with a pair of flip flops, just pedaling along on I-93 by the Garden during the afternoon rush hour.
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Adorable!
1) This person is not from
1) This person is not from Boston, but probably from Amsterdam , thinking Boston is bike wherever you feel like..
2) Maybe he is born and bred in Boston and is on meth..
3) Maybe from Cambridge, doesn't care what anyone thinks, Global warming is on his mind.
possibly from the Midwest?
There are lots of places in the midwest and in the Rockies where bicycles are allowed on the shoulders of limited-access highways like interstates. Often it's because the interstate replaced an older, non-limited-access road and there's no other feasible way to get to the places those roads go on a bicycle.
You all laugh now
Just wait til they get their tractor-trailer license.
Let's call her Sue
Sue E. Cyclist.
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http://bigamericannews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/640px-Picard-facep...
Take the lane!
There's a bike activist, not to be confined to the shoulder or shamed into any self preservation efforts such as wearing a helmet!
Biking where prohibited
Please allow cyclists to use Tobin bridge when it resembles a parking lot. Ample room, less glass and nails, probably.
Respectfully,
A cyclist in exile in Chelsea, MA.
Long climb!
Even if that were allowed, I don't think most cyclists would take advantage of the opportunity.
Upper deck
I would think getting on the upper deck of 93N like that is no small feat, either.
I bet he has the KOM
On the Strava segment on the Leverett Connector.
The 111
It runs on the bridge, and has a handy bike rack on the front. Just $1.60!
Someone with a death wish
How did that Masshole not wind up a hood ornament to some other Masshole?
As a two time transplant
As a two time transplant recipient, I have often imagined the circumstances which allowed me to receive my gifts. I hope this cyclist is an organ donor.
What is really dumb here
There are routes with bike lanes, paths, and some beautiful facilities that are parallel to this route. A beer garden, even!
I hope you don't need a brain transplant if this is how they come to be.
Thank goodness no ;)
Thank goodness no ;) surprisingly enough, this is not far from the usual story on how organs and tissue are procured.
I do think there should be a requirement for those who elect not wear helmets that defaults those riders to be organ donors.
What beer garden is this that
What beer garden is this that you speak of?
Slumbrew Assembly Row!
http://www.slumbrew.com/Assembly_Row
They put a tent over it in the winter, too. I more than once stopped in in December and January for some cheddar beer soup because I was fighting a heavy headwind on my way home.
It is fully open to the air right now.
The bike route through that area goes right next to it, then into a park, then under Route 28 to more bike paths all the way to Riverside Ave. in Medford.
A short jog into the complex and you can get a margarita at Papagayo. Or Ice cream at Emack and Bolios.
I wasnt even thinking Assy
I wasnt even thinking Assy Row. I thought there was some super-secret under Zakim biergarten you had in mind.
Well ...
It probably won't be too long before something emerges in North Point.
Lingo has beer
and outdoor seating
There are routes with bike
I think the same thing when I see cyclists on the Jamaicaway. While they're not banned from riding on it I don't think, it's incredibly stupid and dangerous. Especially when there is a bike path running parallel to it.
Even if he is...
The organ preparation lab for BOS in on I-95 in Waltham, not on I-93.
Plan your bike trips accordingly, people.
Flip flops
Flip flops are a pet peeve of mine. They used to be for beach, pool, etc. When did they become a fashion statement, a thing that they could just be worn anytime, anywhere, all the time? People wear them to work. I've even seen bedazzled "dress" flip flops. Aside from the fact that they just look ridiculous, my main complaint is that they are not really practical for taking the T, escalators and the like. Not to mention riding a bike. I'd like to see this flip flop trend go away.
Or
Try caring less about other peoples footwear
Yeah
My $1 flip flops are inappropriate, but add on a backstrap, maybe a low heel, and a $50 pricetag, and suddenly they're "strappy sandals" that are appropriate all summer.
sorry, old-dress-shoe-man,
sorry, old-dress-shoe-man, but we're all too comfortable to care
YAS
Dear Lord, ME TOO. They're shower or beach shoes. I see so many downtown. Professional from the knees up but those abominations on their feet. My big issue with them, aside from the bedazzling is that awful noise they make as you walk. Makes me cringe. every time.
So....
...when you have a workplace, feel free to implement whatever "professional" dress code you wish, and ban flip flops, pork pie hats and the color purple if you wish. And when you become the boss of public spaces, feel free to ban flip flops everywhere in the whole wide world.
I have to wonder why some people are so stirred up about others' choice of footwear. Does it really harm you that much? Or at all?
Welcome to the East Coast
One of the first things I noticed is that there were not only fifty thousand categories of pants and shoes, they were arranged in a hierarchy of status and all had billions of special rules for their deployment.
Some of these "You can't wear dungarees to dinner on odd numbered days! How tacky!" people still exist.
Flip flops are everybody's problem
Nobody wants to look at your gnarly Hobbit feet!
Then stop staring at people's feet
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Goodbye, Pork Pie Hat, indeed
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I was waiting...
...to see if anyone would come up with that.
It was a meatball, ya know?
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I used to be firmly in this
I used to be firmly in this camp. I would never wear flip flops except within sight of the beach. Then I went to Maui and Kauai for my honeymoon and came home too damn comfortable to care. Now, I wear them pretty much every day between late April and late October, any time I'm not in the office. Life's too short to have hot feet.
in Los Angeles they do this for sport
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VNZSe8Q8-Iw
that ought to make markkk sweat
I'd rather sit in Los Angeles
I'd rather sit in Los Angeles traffic (been there, done that) over Boston traffic (still here, still doing it) any day of the week.
Ear rape
Didn't have a chance to sweat. The audio was offensive from the get go.
Classy
As always.
Ha
Bath salts!
Darwin Award Candidate
Just when I thought that jackass in Maine who tried to light the fireworks off his head on the 4th of July was going to win the New England Darwin Award for 2015 in a landslide, this guy shows up.
The only thing missing to
The only thing missing to really round out this photo is if the cyclist was texting. Game over!
adam, don't you think it's a
adam, don't you think it's a bit silly to focus on the 'helmet' bit. as if she'd be perfectly safe if only she was wearing a helmet. weird obsession with helmets is pointless ...
it's not like a helmet is going to make a difference if a car hits her. still dead.
funny thing is that she probably could be going faster than the cars at some times of day...
a lot of brain dead comments here
This is far more indicative of the sad state of our transportation infrastructure... if you think about it, it's probably safer than riding on the streets - no turning vehicles or stop lights - it's rush hour so traffic is likely moving much slower - more at bike pace, lanes are wider... plus this person is riding in the middle of the lane, not on the shoulder...
if we had a network of physically separated bike paths that took you where you needed to go, this guy probably wouldn't have felt it necessary to ride on 93...
See Swirly's comment above
titled What is really dumb here
I think we have different ideas about where it is safe to ride a bike......
There are places where I might be tempted to ride on a freeway
but this is certainly not one of them.
I have occasionally used a Storrow Drive on- or off-ramp to enter or leave the Esplanade bike path (at Charles Circle or Charlesgate), which is not especially dangerous if traffic is either very light or very congested and slow-moving.
I once rode on about 3 miles of Route 3 shoulder between exits in Plymouth when I was too lost to figure out what to do instead. Once or twice, I've used Route 2 to cross Route 128 in Lincoln(?), between Old County Road and the Concord Ave. exit.
Safety of our transportation infrastructure
is such that more brain dead, drunk, and distracted people somehow don't manage to kill themselves every day. That we seem to have 4 times as many opiate deaths in Mass as roadway deaths last year, now that figures have been revised.
Highways are our safest roads per mile traveled, and yet Autobahns in Germany are safer with no speed limits in many parts. Higher speed limits here would give people more reason to pay attention to driving and less temptation to multitask. Sadly, Interstate construction hasn't kept pace with demand, so slow, congested, economic wastefully slow driving it is.
This guy didn't ride on I-93 because he didn't have a bike path. Smart people pointed out how he had many good routes and less work than pedaling up the ramps to an elevated highway.
Oh, Markkkkkk
You so silly.
Nevermind...
Nevermind the flip flops, never mind the helmet.. dude is on the fucking highway!! And not on the side, in the middle!! Meth is a hell of a drug
Looks like bo.com swiped the
Looks like bo.com swiped the story for their website as well an hour+ after it was published here.
Well ...
Looks like there were two people in the car - Mr. and Ms. Mr. is a UHub fan; Ms. prefers boston.com. No accounting for taste, I guess :-).
I think you missed the most important safety thing
It seems one of them was taking a picture while driving.
I'd love know how many bicyclist have been injured on the limited access highways of America while motorists have been taking photos of them. It's just not safe.
GPS use in wrong mode
They really look like they're looking at their phone.
I betcha they forgot to switch Maps to "Bicycle" mode.
Where the hell are the
Where the hell are the statues, they didn't see this guy with all those carmeras...
I've never seen a statue on I-93
Try the MFA or Gardner instead?