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That is awesome.

[redacting self]

Just as a note, riding the wrong way on a one way street is not always illegal. You can ride in the left of the left hand lane of multilane one way roads(so that to oncoming cars you appear in their right lane).

PA chapter 35 subchapter A Section 3505 (D)

One-way roadways. -- Any person operating a pedalcycle upon a roadway, which carries traffic in one direction only and has two or more marked traffic lanes, may ride as near the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway as practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction.

That rule doesn't give you permission to ride in the wrong direction. It says that on a one-way street, bikes can either stay near the right edge of the road (as they would on two-way streets) or near the left edge. But in either case they must go in the same direction as other traffic.

Yeah, but that cyclist wasn't doing either of those things. In the beginning of the video he was clearly splitting lanes of oncoming, moving traffic. I really don't mean to sound condascending, I'm all for bending the traffic rules when neccessary and where my personal safety and the safety of others is not compromised but Jeez...

Riding in between lanes of oncoming traffic is just about the stupidest and most dangerous thing you can do on a bike. It's just the kind of thing that the general/non-cyclist public likes to point at when they say cyclists are careless and bicycles don't belong on the road. I drive a car sometimes and I try to stay aware of cyclists, in front ofme, behind me, on my right or left, and give them a safe distance but if someone on a bike suddenly appears coming straight at me on the dotted white line it really inhibits my ability to do so.

Not to mention the cyclist in the video was completely unapologetic as though he had a right to be there. That type of shit really pisses me off and does all of us a great public disservice. I can't beleive no one else on this board isn't totally flaming this jagoff!

Thanks Steven for correcting me. I misread.

I wasn't defending the cyclists behavior. I think the intent is to show that both parties were responsible.

were a police officer to get involved, I would hope that citations would be given to both of them.

Looks like NYC. Bike laws there prohibit riding the wrong way down a one way street. Not only was the street he turned onto one way, the street he was turning from was one way as well. And, he was riding with papers of some sort in his right hand. Obviously overconfident & deserved a mishap, just lucky it wasn't worse. Lane splitting oncoming traffic is totally reckless behavior... it also marks one as a douche who thinks they're entitled to do whatever they please on the road. I'm with @chefjohn.

Carry on.

Double douche points for giving the ped a hard time about not using a crosswalk.

I agree with you about the rules, but you have to admit the situation is great--both parties recognizing they are both at fault and letting it end there.

Like he said "it cancels out."

Think about how much easier life would be if everyone came to these agreements.

"Get off the road stupid biker!"

"Why don't you start wearing a seatbelt and using your turn signal!"

"fair enough!"

It's hardly a "cancels out" situation, as the cyclist claims.

Sure, the pedestrian was jaywalking (illegal in NYC, but legal in many other areas as long as you yield to traffic). But he could as easily have been in that same location just to get into his car. Being in that spot would have been perfectly legal in that case, and the cyclist would likely have hit him just the same.

Meanwhile, the cyclist was breaking various laws, riding recklessly, acting like a jerk, and so clueless that instead of being appropriately embarrassed, he puts a video showing his misdeeds on YouTube.

He's lucky the pedestrian was so forgiving.

Car: "Get on the sidewalk!"

Bike: "Get off your cellphone!"

Car: "Touché"

I'm pretty sure we'll all have flying cars before this ever happens.

I'd say it is a "cancels out" situation at that very moment. At that instance, the only things to consider are the cyclist is going the wrong way, and the ped is jaywalking. The cyclists previous irresponsible acts shouldn't be considered.

For all we know, the ped just littered, pick-pocketed another ped, groped a woman on the subway, lied on his taxes, and spat on a baby--but when analyzing this situation, that doesn't really matter.

In that instance, two people were in the wrong, both recognized it, and both agreed to part ways without further exchange--pretty amazing if you ask me.

Haha, exactly.

considering the ped just got knocked on his ass, I'm not sure he was thinking clearly about the situation. He probably got back to his office and was like, "did that ass**** just tell me it 'cancels out'??? WTF"