This photo has been bouncing around various Tumblr sites for a few months now and no one has the photo credit. Each time it pops up, I think to myself how great of a photo it is. Mostly because it captures that NYC Squeeze you develop when riding in New York long enough. It's not always about how close you are to cars, just how your body conforms to the spaces. Like human Tetris...
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I often feel like I am in the Japanese game show "hole in the wall" when I am fitting through odd spaces between disparately shaped vehicles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2IFTi2hmUk
Posted by: Tom Mosher | July 29, 2010 10:14 AM
The NYC Salmon
Posted by: Will | July 29, 2010 10:38 AM
"bike blogs" on tumblr are severely notorious for their non credits.
Posted by: cs | July 29, 2010 10:48 AM
Question: Do you guys often ride against traffic?
I try to always ride with of course whenever it's possible. Sometimes you cant help it. Drivers already hate us as it is.
Posted by: wawa | July 29, 2010 11:23 AM
Its really a nice blend of Tetris and Frogger.
Posted by: Rui | July 29, 2010 12:38 PM
Not really that narrow, and he's going the wrong way. There must be better NYC pics of that scenario somewhere. Signed -- Hatin' In L.A.
Posted by: James B. | July 29, 2010 1:57 PM
Paperboy!
Posted by: Grandma | July 29, 2010 1:58 PM
the one thing I learned in NY during BFF this year, is there is no wrong way to ride traffic in NY. I think we went against traffic more then with it.
Posted by: jkelley | July 29, 2010 2:35 PM
I believe it was originally on New York Daily Photo http://newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/06/street-cred.html because the site is only original content as far as i know. but he does not respond to emails. not mine at least.
this one http://newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/09/urban-bike-polo.html has been reused many times, http://www.hardcourtbikepolo.com/?p=2229.
Posted by: Doug D | July 29, 2010 4:35 PM
I just learned the wrong way ride on my recent trip to NY. That's just not something we do here...very much. And yeah that's not really that narrow. There's got to be some tighter squeeze pics somewhere.
Posted by: MWA | July 29, 2010 4:40 PM
Really nice pic.
Going wrong way may work in NY, but not a good idea AT ALL down here in Curitiba, Brazil. Go with the flow.
Preferably FASTER.
Posted by: Gunnar | July 29, 2010 5:40 PM
It's evocative all right. I want some lox right now!
Posted by: John | July 29, 2010 6:51 PM
normally, I'd say you never salmon. But, in the heat of the moment, it's forgivable to salmon.
what bothers me more about that pic than the salmoning, is salmoning in (what appears to be) dense traffic. if another cyclist/messenger was coming up the street and wanted to take the same opening, that could quickly ruin both their days...
Posted by: john | July 29, 2010 7:18 PM
Posted by john | July 29, 2010 7:18 PM,
I agree. Its kind of dangerous. Perhaps another person on a bike speeding the right way might be in his path.
Well..whatever. People will do what they want despite thinking of what might happen.
Posted by: pantsman | July 30, 2010 10:20 AM
Tight squeeze? We barely even have a single street that wide in Philly.
Posted by: C. | August 1, 2010 2:58 PM