the Bay Area Rapid Transit system has a reasonable set of rules for cyclists that is clearly communicated to the ridership via their website, signs in the station, signs in the trains and regular announcements over the PA. while the following gentleman wasn't technically breaking any rules, he was trampling rather heavily on generally accepted "bikes on BART" etiquette.
most cyclists hang back and let the pedestrian riders board first, he clearly chose not to. to exacerbate matters, he also chose to line up for a car that i had already been waiting at for several minutes, not exactly the most generous of gestures. you may be wondering why i'm taking such offense, as this picture obviously shows it was not a very busy day on BART anyway. you'll have to trust me when i say that there was a fair number of other commuters that simply wanted to go nowhere near him. i can only posit that this was due to A: his blatant disregard for "bikes on BART" etiquette singling him out as a weird guy and/or B: the fact that his gnarly long hair was still dripping from his shower (i hope). or perhaps it was C: the part where he pulled out his norelco and started freaking shaving right on the platform...
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He's kind of like an urban mountain man...Jeremiah Johnson of the BART platform.
the problem with bikers who obviously don't look like they belong on a bike is that they are the ones who make us look bad and get into fights with drivers! It makes me sick.
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