most of the tourists on the bridge do not speak english and do not understand the bikers when they yell for them to move.  the bikers can take the less crowded manhattan bridge but then they won't seem cool yelling at people thinking they are on a mountain stage in a peloton in the tour de france.  instead of seeming like a rude ny'er to the tourists they should be grateful that there are people visiting our city.  take the manhattan bridge & leave your whistle home bikers.  

Yelling "get the fuck out of the way" can occasionally grab a clueless tourist's attention.

When I cycle over the Bridge, I have a nice loud whistle, and I blow the pedestrians out of the bike path for their own safety.  And it's fun.

Check out our Union Brooklyn picture on the Brooklyn bridge http://www.unionbicycles.com or http://www.facebook.com/unionb...

If somebody is too f'n stupid to know what the international symbol is for bike lane, then they deserve to be hit.  You simply do not walk wherever you please.    Just like if crossing the FDR drive by foot is a shorter trip to get someone, I expect to get hit corssing there.  I have a 115db horn on my bike specifically for the clueless idiot walking cluslessly around the city.  If that is not good enough for them on the Brooklyn Bridge, they are flying like Peter Pan long before I wing myself on a bridge cable trying to avoid them strolling the in the bike lane. 

Like I said in an earlier comment, those rubes think that symbol is a Keith Haring painting, and probably took pictures of the sign it was on, and are still showing to relatives to this day....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I bike TO work in Manhattan on the Brooklyn Bridge but refuse to go up there on the way home. Pedestrians in the morning are usually also commuters and not tourists. The real problem pedestrians are the idiots walking on the bike side of the Manhattan Bridge. A very large percentage of them appear to be the Chinese folks that live in that 1 building near the base of the bridge with the Chinese writing on the roof. They're just being lazy and inconsiderate by not crossing to the walking side and eventually one of them is going to get someone hurt.  It's too narrow up there for more than 2 bikes to pass each other.  I also think that 1 car lane dedicated to bikers on the Brooklyn Bridge is a fantastic solution.

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If you bike and have ridden the Brooklyn Bridge even once, then you expect idiot tourists from that point on and avoid it whenever you can. Those bikers who refuse to adjust to the reality that tourists exist and continue to insist that "there's a bike lane" are just willfully seeking conflict.

So be it......  So you are saying put yourself at harms way or the possibility of hitting somebody is walking where they are supposed to be to avoid an idiot.....?

No. I'm saying avoid biking on the Brooklyn Bridge because of the stupid tourists. But if you have to bike it, then do it slowly and expect there to be stupid tourists who step in front of you.

If you know this and still wind up hitting one of them, then either you don't know how to ride a bike or else you went up there hoping to hit a stupid tourist.

Not true. I understand tourists exist. I ride carefully, and if a tourist is in my bike lane I remind them to "be careful". No insults, and no rage. Watch your sweeping statements.

Then you're a smart, respectful biker. And you're unusual.

See that dude in the first picture? The one playing I'm-wearing-a-sponsored-jersey-and-I'm-in-the-Tour-de-France dress up? If he hits that clueless girl, it's because he wants to or doesn't care enough to anticipate it. She's in the wrong, but he's an intentional dick. 

Yeah, it's a sweeping statement, but in my own bike travels around the city, I see it enough (on the BB, in Central Park, on Bleecker, on Bedford, on paths along the Hudson) to make that sweeping statement.  

And here's another: I love biking. I hate entitled biking dicks.

The whole point of commuting by bike is that your free from the hassles of things like the Brooklyn bridge.

You don't need to be there. You have other options. You can go fast on the Manhattan and make up any time you lost taking a couple extra blocks.

Biking over the Brooklyn at sunrise though, when theres almost nobody out? Worth it.

You're saying logical things! Stop it before the contrarian police come for you!

I usually carry a baseball bat and start swinging at douche bag bikers.

Wow, a tough guy.  What is your baseball back going to do for you when somebody pulls out a .45 on you?

I ride the bridge every week. It goes both ways. Cyclists need to be aware of pedestrians. Pedestrians need to be aware of cyclists.

But: Cyclists also need to be aware of CYCLISTS and share the lane also.

No one will win this debate, so let's try to be courteous to each other and we'll all get along.

"so let's try to be courteous to each other and we'll all get along."
yeah this isn't portland.