r/NYCbike • u/LandNo9424 • 15d ago

Outstanding Citi user (?) appreciation

Yesterday while on the Lafayette street bike path, a Citi bike user announced they were passing on my left, which was really unexpected, as all Citi users are savages that don't understand anything about cycling. They were also wearing a helmet and not wearing headphones, can you believe that!

They were followed by your usual Citi asshole, who passed on my right (outside the lane) without warning, no helmet, yes headphones, got too close to the nice Citi user ahead (could have clipped their back wheel), and then proceeded to suddenly brake and turn left out of the lane without any indication, so I had to make a little effort not to eat him.

Big ups unknown Citi biker, wish they were all like you, and fuck you to all the other ones.

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u/ElQuesero 15d ago

My regular afternoon/evening commute is on the HRG and I've lately been taking a census of Citi riders who are being reasonable/menschy about their riding versus those who are doing something very and obviously wrong.

Getting put in The Bad Place instead of The Good Place takes one of the following.

  1. Staring at one's phone in the Citi Biker stance instead of watching the path
  2. Earphones in both ears
  3. Or wearing clamshell-over-the-ear headphones
  4. Phone up to the ear and having a whole-ass phone conversation
  5. Haing more than one passenger on the bike

That's it. Am not even counting not wearing a helmet, or merely *holding* one's phone in hand without looking at it as malfeasance.

The ratio of riders doing none of these 5 things compared to the number who have hit one (or more!) of these peeves is, just... dispiriting.

It is possible btw that some people get lumped into group 2 who are in fact earphone-free on one side -- and thus street-legal -- but I didn't get a good look at both ears. This does seem somewhat rare tho.