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Earlier this month, this bike commuter was legally riding across a bridge in Bethlehem, PA when he was struck from behind by a vehicle. The vehicle tried to flee. However, a city bus driver witnessed the crime and used the bus to cut off the fleeing driver, and waited for the police to arrive. It was all caught on the city's traffic camera. A link to the full story is on the YouTube page. The cyclist was not seriously injured. Love it when people think quickly and band together to help each other out, especially when it involves keeping bikers safe. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7AVC1YCcO0&w=480&h=360]

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All I ever needed to know about human nature, I learned from riding my bike

 The rules of human perception seem to be as follows:

Perception of Cyclists:

While I am riding, if you are slower, a pedestrian, a child, a pet, or a badly maintained road, you are an impediment to the freedom and purity that is cycling and a total waste of space and/or oxygen.

Perception of Vehicle Drivers:

While I am driving, if you are smaller; slower; a cyclist; a deer; squirrel, or raccoon; or any other animate or inanimate object, you are an impediment to the entitlement of all like me who choose to display their detachment from reality by bludgeoning into a salsa-like pulp said impediments in much the same way a rampaging Hun on cocaine with a one-ton-plus steel projectile would.

Perception of Pedestrians:

What? There are other objects in the universe that move at a greater velocity than me as I casually stroll into your path? You must be kidding.At least, this is what I perceive on my bike commute to work.

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