Calling a car a shitbox. I know it is childish but I giggle every time I hear someone call a car this. What fun names do you have for cars?

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Speaking of awesome bike lane news, BuBikes has documented some official,

some less than official

enforcement of the new bike lanes on North Harvard.

I wonder who did the unofficial ones….

If you only read the font page of BostonBiker.org you are missing out on a whole wealth of interesting folks that blog here. You can find a list of the most updated blogs over there on the left, you can subscribe to a site wide RSS feed here, and you can also read the last couple posts from other bloggers down there at the bottom, want to add your voice to the mix click here.

I was thinking today (while riding my bike of course, a wonderful time to think) about all the things that people do on the bike which I am able to recognize from afar that make me have no respect whatsoever for their skills on the bike. I might like some help with this from readers and friends, as I feel sure there are many things I have missed.

+ If your helmet predates Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France streak (especially if it’s older than your bike), I have no respect for you. And you don’t have any respect for yourself, apparently. Especially those models that look like pith helmets from the 70s – people, please!

+ If you are wearing underwear under your bike shorts, I have no respect for you, and once again you have no respect for yourself or your own pleasure-causing tender parts. (The worst offender in this case was the gentleman I saw wearing underwear under his Assos shorts.)

+ If I can see any part of the suspender part of your bib shorts, I have no respect for you. The shoulder straps of bib shorts are not meant to be worn over your jersey, over a flapping white T-shirt, or worst of all, over your naked torso. Making me close my eyes to avoid that sight threatens my safety.

+ If your bicycle is making a hideous, repetitive grating/clanging/banging/grinding noise, I am unlikely to have respect for you. Of course, if you’ve crashed your bike and are just trying to get home on your wounded steed, I am likely to take pity on you. But chances are that you won’t be trying to race me with your noise machine on the bike path, in that case.

Please, join the fun! What are other things that other cyclists do that make you kind of want to lecture them, just a little bit?

Watch this delightful video to learn all about the Large Hadron Collider, which will start performing experiments in the big ol’ particle accelerator in Switzerland/France tomorrow, its first day of service.

Okay, apparently the YouTube window broke my website, so just click here.

It’s time once again to clean out my feed reader of all the fun videos I have found all over the tubes, internets, webs, webertubes and even some I found on the internet. Again I will start with the most awesome video. This is just great. Everything you think you came up with first, you didn’t….

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Seriously, I have seen this happen so many times…Oh Boston how I love your crankiness.

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I have been having all these fun video’s clutter up my video in-box. So without further adu here they are in no apparent order (except the best one is first).

Sprint Night from Panda Face on Vimeo.

much much more below…try not to wast an hour watching these all at work…

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Makes me laugh every time.

And these guys!

Hello 4$ a gallon gasoline! Hello new cyclists!

Welcome, come on in, the waters fine!

Suck…but pretty funny as well.

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A lot of accidents are caused by cars not looking out for bicycles, and bicycles not looking out for pedestrians, and pedestrians acting like they wont get hit by cars if they just walk into the road at any time and any place. Everyone needs to be more alert.

The British in their wisdom have come up with this awareness test. Can you pass it?