this bike is a pipebomb
"Emotions still running high after Critical Mass confrontation" from the
Seattle Times.
A melee erupted Friday night in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood between a motorist and a group of Critical Mass cyclists. The driver and cyclists blame each other for escalating the incident into a violent clash that sent two men to local hospitals, two men to jail and a battered Subaru Impreza to an impound yard with $1,500 in damages.
I'm commenting on this four days after it happened, which officially makes me the slowest blogger ever; but speaking as someone who commuted by bicycle for six years, bicyclists
hate cars. Fucking hate them! And I can guarantee that the kind of crazy biker who attends a rolling protest isn't going to be happy about some fat asshole who is
killing the planet to get to a restaurant faster. Hitting a bicyclist with your car in such an environment is somewhat equivalent to holding forth on the genetic deficiencies of Africans in South Central Los Angeles circa 1992.
In any event, it'll be interesting to see the official fallout.