Thankfully there were other details which made this experience post-worthy: he was only riding on his back tire (doing a wheelie) AND, holy shit I still can't believe this, adjusting something on his front wheel while riding down said freeway, while riding a continuous wheelie, while riding about a foot away from cars passing at 85mph.
I did a triple take as we passed him. I'm still stunned, still wondering if we didn't enter some sort of carnavalesque imaginary world for a few seconds. Now I have a small inkling of what it must have felt like to look up in 1974 and see Phillipe Petit crossing that thin wire between the Twin Towers. Must have been magical, hilarious, incredible.
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Funny. And scary.... I had a friend who rode an old clunker 10-speed from Las Vegas, on the freeway, all the way to point of the mountain, where a cop "pulled" him over and told him he had to find another route, which was easy at that point. Of all his travels on bikes, he said that the freeway shoulder (not in cities) was probably the safest place for bikes, being that its usually really wide. The country roads most cyclists take may be more scenic and less noisy, but not safer.
Wow. Wish you had video of this--amazing, crazy, surreal.
Funny how a technology (cars, hwys) that once increased our freedom of mobility now seems to impede it. It's already next to impossible to walk anywhere. How long before we can't bike anywhere, either?
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