That Road in the Park We Call The Loop? Apparently, It's A Bike Track.

On Friday, we recevied this epic screed from a pissed off Park Slope cyclist:

Spring has sprung and my list of to-do's for my return to the bike track in Prospect Park starts with a  tune up and new cycling shoes yay. Imagine my anger when a breeder on the Park Slope Parents community board posted a petition to keep me and other cyclist from using the bike track as a training and racing apparatus..Here is the post.

"Have you had a run-in with racing cyclists in Prospect Park? It's cycling season again just this weekend I had a spandex-wearing cyclist yell at me and refuse to stop because I was trying to cross the ring road--at a crosswalk, with the light, with a stroller carrying a toddler.

Some other moms, park volunteers and I started a petition to try to get some better enforcement and signage. If you've got a small kid (or even dog), odds are you had a similar experience.

Could you sign the petition and maybe pass it along?

http://www.change.org/petitions/eric-landau-stop-rogue-cyclists-in-prospect-park


Whaaaa.......... I said. So like any other law abiding cyclist in this city I tried to explain why I use the bike track and how it fucks up my train of thought when i have to constantly stop to let a Bugaboo cross the road or clueless dog owner with their fluffy on a six foot lead. I also told her that I can no longer afford the 65.00 per month for my membership at the Y on 9th st.

Well after a few days I got a response from the entitled breederette. Basicly she doesn't care and accused me of thinking that I was entitled to break the law any time i choose obviously, because I am not as entitled as someone who has given birth.

Why aren't the cyclist circulating petitions to outlaw the breeders in Park Slope? Year after year it's the same bullshit. I've been cycling for 4 years and have seen the flack from the old people at the home to these folks who think the world should revolve around them and everyone should move out of BK and leave it to them solely. A bugaboo can cross the bike track when it's safe to do so, because who gives a shit how long it takes them to get to the other side. My three miles take a long time to finish 5 days a week and truth be told I'd like to be stretched out on couch, but my ass will just keep getting bigger if I do that. so I don't need any excuses to not ride.

This reminds me of the mom who tried to get ice cream banned in all of BK ,because she can't tell her kid NO.

It's time for cyclist to rise up!  This blog is the only way I could think of to let those cycling teams know what these menace to society are up to.

Maia

Sorry, Maia. You probably expected us to be all "Fuck the breeders! Yeah!" but, sadly, you were mistaken. For one thing, this is nothing new. Two years ago, because of all the law-breaking by the asshole cyclists, the cops came out in full force to start issuing tickets and it was the cover story on The Daily News. Also, the rules are loud and clear on the Bicycling section of prospectpark.org: 

So, yeah, wanting your fellow park users to follow the law is not a sense of entitlement. If anyone comes off sounding entitled here, it's you, Maia. Stop calling the loop a "bike track," stop whining, and for fuck's sake, stop at red lights!!