Here Are The Top 5 Cycling Stories Of 2011: Crackdowns, Lawsuits, Terrorists, Jerks

<p>2011 was the biggest year of the so-called "bikelash," wherein certain media outlets like the Post did everything they could to amplify a small but vocal (and well-financed) array of people who aren't exactly pleased with NYC's booming growth in commuter cycling. To be sure, New Yorkers have been torn apart by bike lane wars since at least 2008, but this year the rhetoric intensified, the mainstream media coverage expanded, and the city wound up in court defending against a lawsuit that sought to remove a mile-long stretch of bike lane along Prospect Park West. Click though on the photos for five of the cycling stories that the<em> whole world was watching. </em><br/></p>