Tonight at about 8pm I was travelling eastbound on Sylvania Ave when my ears and eyes shocked me. Riding a 3 wheel bicycle was a young kid with music playing so loud that I thought a "thumper" car was nearby. Nope. It was just his bike. He had some type of battery in the rear basket which powered a real car stereo mounted on the handlebars. Also, on each side of the stereo and also in the rear basket were car speakers. Some cute white lights went across the back of the rear basket too.
A thumping, three wheel bicycle with lights. He either couldn't hear traffic coming or just didn't care because he went right into the middle of the street behind me and a car had to stop and blow their horn to get his attention to turn off.
I have seen it all now
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"He either couldn't hear traffic coming or just didn't care because he went right into the middle of the street behind me and a car had to stop and blow their horn to get his attention to turn off."
I wouldn't worry about it. Chuck says everything is under control.
posted by jr on Aug 04, 2012 at 09:33:01 pm # 5 people liked this
I'm guessing what was "thumping" from those speakers was not Mozart, Tchaikovsky, or John Williams....
posted by oldhometown on Aug 04, 2012 at 09:38:24 pm #
If it was Dancing Queen by ABBA, I would have stopped myself and broke into my best Saturday Night Fever routine. Probably would have spent the night in jail too for indecent exposure, but what a TT post that would have made for tomorrow.
posted by hockeyfan on Aug 05, 2012 at 02:38:29 am # 1 person liked this
When I was a kid, only the "special" kids had three wheel bikes. I assumed that they were only available by prescription.
hahahaha ! justread - trust me, if you were to stop and conversate with the driver of the vehicle that you describe, you will find him/her to be special.
excessive noise rules don't apply to them, and they crave attention.
all in all, they are annoying as hell.
it just didn't look right . . . I had to look it up . . .
Urban Dictionary:
1. conversate
A word used by backwards, ignorant, illiterate inner city trash who mean to say 'converse'.
"Yo, I just needs to conversate witcha!"
To which I replied, "No, you need to converse with me, you dumb shit-eating fuckhead!"
Maybe Gunther was intentionally using colorful inner city lingo, but I thought the definition was funny so there it is for ya.
posted by jimavolt on Aug 05, 2012 at 06:55:35 pm # 1 person liked this
If there are no pics, it never happened. Shoop something.
posted by historymike on Aug 05, 2012 at 07:26:59 pm #
Here: how does this look?
posted by historymike on Aug 05, 2012 at 07:37:17 pm #
I have suddenly become aware of a huge market for bicycle spinner wheels.
posted by justread on Aug 05, 2012 at 08:02:54 pm # 5 people liked this
^ Go for it, man! I'll be your first customer. I drive a big ole green beach cruiser that could use some bling.
All I remember about my younger days to make our bikes "cool" was to tape a baseball card to the frame so it would "click, click, click" in the spokes and sound cool.
We were such dorks.
I will scour the area and try to catch a pic. Hope I don't get shot in the process.
http://www.ladyada.net/make/spokepov/
There is the new bling for bikes.
posted by anonymouscoward on Aug 06, 2012 at 12:15:38 am #
i dont think it was a kid. if its the same guy i see all the time...he rides up cherry (from where idk) along berdan (to where again idk)
I see him quite often.
The one that gets me is in the same area. a guy has a motorized peddle bike. Thia guy will be on the sidewalks going 35 mph. It causes me to double take everytime to realize its has a motor and thats how he goes so fast.
tbh, the have the right idea. gas prices, car repairs, insurance, and plates...why not just ride a bike when days are nice.
The tricycle biker does drive in the road and follows the laws of the road.
I think once your old enough or tall enough to ride a big bike you should get off the sidewalk.
posted by Linecrosser on Aug 07, 2012 at 04:58:29 pm #
I disagree. If there is no one on sidewalk, it sure is safer than riding on road where you become a target for milkshakes, french fries, and especially idiots who wait til the are right next to you to blow their horn.
If the sidewalk is empty, I use it. I know you're not supposed to, but I'll take a ticket over being killed.
I 100% agree with hockeyfan, and have always felt that bicycles should be for sidewalks. If a bicycle colides with a person, there are bruises and scrapes. When a car colides with a bicycle, there are funerals. Which is the lesser of the two evils?
posted by Johio83 on Aug 08, 2012 at 10:39:27 am # 1 person liked this
I wish PEDESTRIANS would use the d#mn sidewalk, already! Every day I see runners ignoring the sidewalk and exercising in traffic. Recently I've begun to see casual pedestrians strolling along at the side of the road, ignoring the sidewalk 10 feet away that was constructed for safety.
Omg the same? guy was downtown today at lunch! A 3 wheeled blue bike with a system on the back!
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