This video features a bottom-clenching accident wherein a bicyclist runs into an old man who steps out in front of him—and amazingly, not only are they both okay, THEY SETTLE THEIR DISPUTE AMICABLY AND WITHIN FIVE SECONDS. Watch and learn, Portland! Watch and learn.
Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.) More by Wm. Steven Humphrey
The gentleman on the bike was breaking several laws and pedestrians have the right of way. Not using a crosswalk doesn’t “cancel that” out.
I’d rather that people learned that bike salmoning right next to a line of parked cars isn’t a good idea, at least maintain a decent sightline salmon…
One time I was riding my bike in a forest and I hit a tree I was pissed, what was that tree doing there?
Dude, that cyclist is a moron.
The real lesson here: don’t be this type of biker
HA! “…carry on”.
stupid move by biker. there’s a reason that portland is such a great biking city and it has nothing to do with going the wrong way while filming.
biker = asshole.
someone please super slow-mo that shit.
Haha, yea that guy is a douche. The pedestrian didn’t make an issue of it because he saw the camera, I bet.
Cyclist totally in the wrong. 100%
Ultra-assholes like that make the rest of us regular biking assholes look even worse in comparison.
If a car hit the pedestrian going the wrong way down a one way street it would not “cancel out” because he was not using a cross walk. This is bullshit.
i often ride the wrong way down a one way street as i’m less likely to be doored from the passenger side vs the drivers side and also i can see all the traffic coming on to me rather than mysteriously have a car hit me from behind. i’m not from portland, my home town is horrible for cyclists and as a cyclist in portland for the past 3 weeks, i love the way cars move to the side. i love the way everyone shares the road nicely. riding this style especially back home is much much safer.
I cycle avidly, this cyclist is an idiot & should give up his wheels.
I thought that video would leave me with a warm fuzzy feeling but instead I think that cyclist is an asshole.
GUYS! HEY GUYS! IT’S ‘CAUSE IT’S FUNNY!
Chillax.
How the fuck is this okay? This biker is a COMPLETE. FUCKING. MORON. I’m guessing the only reason the older man was so agreeable was because he was in total shock after getting hit by a bike and THROWN ONTO THE GROUND. I hope this douche bag gets put in his place.
I love how super-ready the cyclist was with “you weren’t using a crosswalk,” like it runs through his head whenever he sees a pedestrian. “I could hit that one, not in a crosswalk.” “I could knock that guy right over, not in a crosswalk.”
Oh, BS. That cyclist should go to jail. Wrong way on a one way street, too fast to stop? Did you see that pedestrian’s head hit the pavement? This is the perfect cyclist BS — wrong way on a one-way street and it is the pedestrian’s fault for not looking the wrong way on a one way street. My friends from back East think I’m daft when I wait to look both ways on Portland’s one way streets, but in Portland, there are too many a$$hats on bikes for it to be safe walking anywhere.
Rather than repeat the observation that the cyclist is an asshole, I’ll point out that the pedestrian is not an “old man.” I mean, come on.
Yeah, the “old man” pejorative was an ageist insult and the “resolved amicably” portion of the title hides the fact that the cyclist smashed a guy off his feet and then copped an attitude.
“the “old man” pejorative was an ageist insult”
I prefer the term, “the nearly dead.”
YEAH FOR STREET HASSLES!
I got into one with a guy with a lisp, I made fun of him for it. I wished I would have said to him, “What are you doing telling me how to ride my bike when you don’t even know how to speak correctly?”
Condemn!
I’m a biker too, but that guy was an ass.
Jerk-ass jerk.