“I’m usually like the rider in the video, going the same speed as the traffic.”
I think the problem is he *wasn’t* going the same speed as the traffic or the bus wouldn’t have caught up to him.
I could never ride a bike in the city or heavy traffic. Even in my SUV I look upon buses as large beasts with bad eyesight and small brains.
Maybe if you feed them and petted them, they’d be nicer.
About 18 years ago I took my 15 year old nephew, a mountain biking addict on a bike ride to downtown Seattle. Once we got there we cruised around Lake union, through the Pike place market, Capitol hill, the heart of downtown and the Pioneer square area.
As we stopped for a light on 4th avenue to take a left onto Dearborn, and head back across the lake he said to me, “When we first got into this traffic I thought ‘Man this sucks.’, but after we did it for a while it was a blast!”
I agree. I love riding in traffic. It is exhilarating.