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i riding in the city<br />
NAME: Steve Lee<br />
LOCATION: Brooklyn, NY<br />
OCCUPATION: Editor and Speechwriter<br />
Where do you live and what’s it like riding in your<br />
city?<br />
I live in Brooklyn and riding in the city is a microcosm<br />
of New York City itself. You have spandex-clad<br />
finance types, fixed gear hipsters, granny geared pedicabs,<br />
pragmatic 9-to-5ers, basket-toting fashonistas,<br />
kamikaze delivery guys and Charlie Brown-headed kids<br />
all competing for the same bike lanes, roadways and<br />
bike racks. I’ve been door’d by non-signaling taxi cabs,<br />
knocked to the ground by oblivious delivery vans and<br />
yelled at by jaywalking pedestrians. It’s a battle every<br />
day.<br />
What was your favorite city to ride in, and why?<br />
Nothing compares to New York City as a place<br />
with such a conflicted soul about riding. We hate bike<br />
lanes! We love bike lanes!<br />
12 URBANVELO.ORG<br />
Why do you love riding in the city?<br />
I sit at a desk in front of a computer all day. Every<br />
morning, I taste the first breath of sunrise as I cross the<br />
Brooklyn Bridge during my commute to Manhattan.<br />
Every weekend before my wife and son wake up, I can<br />
either ride to watch surfers dance across the waves<br />
at the beach in Queens or scale the George Washington<br />
Bridge to dizzying heights above the Hudson River.<br />
Riding in the city is the ultimate stress-management<br />
tool.<br />
Or just say whatever you want about riding in the<br />
city… Poetry anyone?<br />
Ride with traffic.
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