As the sign says on the Cuthbert bridge: "PLEASE WALK YOU BIKE ACROSS THIS BRIDGE".

I know people like to dress up in costumes, hop on a bike, and pretend they are training for the Tour, but the law is the law.

PS - and the topography of Cooper River Park is slightly less hilly than the Pyrenees.

PPS - you look silly wearing a costume bike shirt that suggests you are being sponsored by an Italian luxury good.

Peter, good points!

As a daily cyclist commuting between Haddon Twp and Philly I'll say that there are some who ride a bike that should not. And that starts with the Modern Day Parent; parents need to be parents and grow up and teach their children (among other things) on how to ride a bike and get off the sidewalk. Learn how to ride in traffic or keep the bike in the yard. This goes for 'adults' who ride around town on BMX bikes who have the same disregard for everyone else.

It's a shame that a minority of those who ride a bike give a stereotype to cyclists.

And by the way, drivers are terrible. With the cell phones, texting and talking, no turn signals, drinking alcohol, doped up on meds, shaving, makeup and Lord knows what else they do in there leaves little wonder as to why drivers don't see a bike or a pedestrian or other cars (and telephone poles for that matter). Drivers are the most overwhelmingly dangerous thing on the highway. Cyclists are not the dangerous element on the road, it's the idiotic absent minded slob who has a cheeseburger in one hand and the phone in the other while 'knee driving' and having a dog in their lap.

...and Porter, I agree; if someone is not endorsed leave the print jersey alone.

Porter, One of my worst driving annoyances! And the bike riders give you a good glare if they don't have room to get through when traffic is backed up.

The Lance Armstrongs of Long Valley need to get a grip !!! They are a MENACE to the motoring public. I LOVE the outfits also - I guess they don't own mirrors. Are they shaving " time " off a personal record by wearing Italian spandex and a helmet that is wind resistant ???? I especially love the clowns that need to ride in packs like wolves - taking up both lanes on rural roads that have NO sight distance. You have to love the people that live in LV !!!!

I agree Jack. First and foremost these bikers need to get over and out of the lane of travel.

And enough with the ultra tight shirts and shorts with the vibrant logos. Yeah your really sponsored. What a bunch of cheesy losers.

screw that... I want to see the car thats about to hit me so I can get out of the way. The day all cars observe all traffic laws I might give it a shot but you're out of your mind to ride a bike with the flow of traffic in NJ or NY. Another lib law that will get you killed.

Gary B is another lib moron, I will ride a damn Tri-cycle If I choose, and probably still beat your hairless ass to work. I am glad this jerk stays with the flow of traffic, lube up Gary so you can squeeze your small package into that seal suit. Oh he is such a professional cyclist, I am sure Gary is great at everything he does, especially cooking asparagus and grass clippings, cause Gary would never put anything like a Cheesburger in that perfect body of his. This jerk is one of the reasons why you hardly see kids ride bikes anymore, never mind to try to turn them into cyclists as qualified as Gaaarrry is to pedal to work.

of course Uniony is just another lib who feels the school should be involved more with raising your children vs teaching them math and english. I am glad the kids ride without helmets, I am glad to see kids riding bikes at all, libs have sucked the fun out of everything for these kids today, who the hell wants to ride a bike with 10 pounds of safety equipment on them. Riding a bike is about common sense, no padding in the world is going to stop you from getting hurt if you don't have common sense.

Liz, there are some cities such as Manhattan that no longer believe in just bike lanes, as they are constructing bike paths and roads! :)

This is not my clip* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C24aKQzg7xQ
http://www.nycbikemaps.com/maps/nyc-bike-map/
http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/article/1488238

Let's waste valuable road space just for bikers like other towns/cities have and when there's alot of traffic from morning/afternoon rush hour or some other reason, traffic on those roads tends to be worse because of that extra space going to waste. Truly a great idea.

Yeah Cynic, I guess those of us who choose not to be sedentary, complacent loads should have to bike on the shoulders. Would you also like us to clean your Burger King wrappers off the road as well?

Guess you haven't gotten the word yet on gas prices, carbon foot print and pollution? Here are some things to think about; 12 bikes can be parked in the same spot as a car, bikes produce zero emissions, bikes have no noise pollution, bikes are recyclable-cars are not, NJ and it's townships spend billions on roads for cars, bikes hardly get a painted section on less than .5% of them, as equal sharing tax payers bikes deserve more. Bikes cost less to maintain, cars have many chemicals and chemical made parts to keep them running and clog up our landfills and waterways when those parts are discarded. Bikes move faster to and from points of destinations in urban areas.

Something else to think about,
* taxi passengers are exposed to more than 100,000 ultrafine particles – which can settle in the lungs and damage cells – per cubic centimetre. Bus passengers sucked up just under 100,000 and people in cars inhaled about 40,000. Cyclists, meanwhile, were exposed to just 8,000 ultrafine particles per cubic centimeter

Motor vehicle emissions represent 31 percent of total carbon dioxide, 81 percent of carbon monoxide, and 49 percent of nitrogen oxides released in the U.S.

And bikes are healthy! :)

Cinnacide: Really now, all of us who drive cars throw our trash out the window? Just because someone might've thrown their trash at you while biking doesn't mean all drivers do it nor does your other brilliant assumption about everyone who drives eats fast food either.

Gary B: Gas prices are a reality for most people obviously whether they want to admit it or not. As for trying to guilt me about 'carbon footprint'..which is just another hippie/hipster way to guilt trip people back to the stone age...and pollution, cars are needed for most commutes past 5 miles each way especially with the terrain. If this area was more flat I'd agree that biking everywhere would be more doable.

There's no need to ramble on about the rest of your hippie/hipster schtick about space cars take up and what cars use and need to run on along with the pollution numbers, the bottom line is it's great you can bike most places but the reality for most others is that it's not possible, especially when you have multiple passengers with you.

More flat?

You do know this is NJ right?

Pretty flat...

Of course Gary B. is wrong with all his facts, most professional cyclists dont live longer than cheesburger eaters. Most employee's don't live in biking distance to their employers thanks to the libs laws and taxes pushing business farther and farther away, Nature produces the most of all those emissions he so proudly pretends to know about. You see the Bible is a lie, but the scientists Gary never met tell the gospel truth. pray ye to our father Al Gore.

Thank you Cathleen, you see... libs never take responsibility for anything they do or say, so having a kid, is just like sun cooking a Tomato to them. They take a tomato, put it out in the sun, stare at it for a few years while it cooks, get bored move on to something else, and blame others for the tomato getting rotten.

If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." John Kennedy 1960

yeah Stewart, he was a true example of a lib, do as I say, not as I do.... You can see where that got him and most of his crooked family. The Hypocrisy of Liberals.

yeah Michael-A Party member…is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party. The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline…called, in Newspeak, crimestop. Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.

JFK would be appauld at what the democratic party has become.

ap·pall/əˈpɔl/ Show Spelled [uh-pawl] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
to fill or overcome with horror, consternation, or fear; dismay: I am appalled at your mistake.
Also, appal. Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Middle French ap ( p ) allir to grow or make pale, equivalent to a- a-5 + pal ( l ) ir in same sense; see pale1
Synonyms
horrify, daunt. See frighten.

Excuse my typing/spelling error, I meant to type appalled. My point remains. Would you like me to provide some more low hanging fruit for you to grasp at? Also of note: Today, another M.O. of the Liberal is (aside from grasping the afore mentioned low hanging fruit), is to change the subject. Many times we see it in the spirit of that of an elementary school child, as in this case. Even when it's thought out and vaguely clever, it's usually still juvenile and lacking in maturity.

I vote to place Stewart at the top of the list to deny him a gun permit. If he already has one, please post his full name, address, phone #, and list of friends and relatives that may possibly be related, in several major news papers.

This nut job just described a Lib to perfection, and yet he doesn't realize he is talking about himself. I guess protective stupidity really does exist. Thats why its always the Lib promoting fear of corporate greed, fear of losing government handouts (which is really legal robbery), fear that cutting union waste in schools will make children dumb, cutting union waste in police and fire will make us less safe, fear that our existence is destroying the planet. Tax, Blame, run blindly forward without discipline or thought. Thanks Stewart, that helped me understand how F'd up you people are.

“JFK would be appauld at what the democratic party has become.”

As would Lincoln be at the current train wreck that calls itself the GOP.

Hookerman, you're right. There's little question of that.

Steward, are you the same Steward in this story?

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/rash-of-violent-break-ins-in-northern-n-j-targeting-jewelry-cash/

$40,000 dollars in Jewelry? WOW!

EPC that would be me, 3 homes the same day on the same block, 15 more in the following days elswhere.

LOL, not a 'notion', Brian. Cars go to the junk yard, they have a life cycle. They break down and are need of never ending repair,,,from 'new' to 'old'. There are cars on the road still at 10 years of age, but most are not at twenty.

Cars are an expense to the owner, insurance companies and the tax payer. *this is not an anti-car post, it's an opening your mind to other venues that are not such a burden to our wallets, waistline and planet.

You clearly missed the point in any case.

Gary, you're clueless about automotive recycling. Simply go to www.google.com and search for the two words automotive and recycling.
Without possessing any knowledge of the automotive recycling industry, any point you attempt to make is utterly worthless.

Brian, we've all been by enough salvage yards, junk yards and other such places that house rotting vehicles. ...Funny how one poster calls me a "hippie" because they interject their perversions of me being too 'green' and another poster calls me 'worthless' because they don't believe I'm liberally minded enough for their 'green industry'...go figure.

Cars get recycled. End of story.

Sorry Chris and I apologize if my post came across that way. But my comments were just meant to be responses to the criticism of bike riding and automobile burdens, not knocks on others. And I was also called a 'hippie' lol... I get plenty of shots my way :) ...(and for disclosure; appearance wise, I do not look like a hippie and my 'politics' are most certaintly not hippie)

And yes, agree, Philly has more than its fair share of idiotic bikers,,and I wish that could change.

It should be perfectly legal to make idiot bike riders hood ornaments.

I don't have an issue with it - unless it's being done on a busy road that's far too narrow for that kind of activity. Like along Copper River (South side, North is OK). Widen the road and you can dress up like Santa while riding for all I care.

Wearing a sports jersey of another person is odd. Wearing a jersey of someone younger than you is, to me, a violation. That said, I don't see the parallel. One can show their support for a team that represents where they are from. Wearing a shirt with "illy" on it suggests support for...what exactly? It's a costume.

not sure what town you are referring to, but delayed openings are a real hassle for working parents. When I dropped my kids off at their usual start time, the roads were clear and so were the sidewalks at the school.