PLAYING CHESS WITH TRAFFIC ♞

[@randys8298]

Lucas puts more trust in other drivers than I ever could or would. Just blasting through red lights and turning into on coming traffic. Stay safe....

[@ethanethan3811]

“ID please” “No, thank you”

[@fatcat7msk7ru]

🤣🤣😁👍

[@ATICrossX]

Security: "ID please" Lucas: "Oh yeah, I have that" rides away 🤣🤣

[@fixednstoned861]

Was just getting ready. I can wait another 15 for some Brunelle footage!

[@UnlinealHand]

It's amazing that I've only been commuting by bike for half a year and the second I saw that guy at 1:54 pull ahead of you and start braking I knew he was going to turn right. It's hardcore telegraphing. No sense of how fast you were going, just needed to get out in front and turn regardless of he would have wound up in your way or not. Then the Prius blocking traffic making the left was just icing on the cake. Just goes to show the old saying is correct "You can be right, and you can be dead right."

[@lucasbrunelle]

Also people in Boston are the worst drivers I've seen in the 70+ countries I've been to

[@UnlinealHand]

@@lucasbrunelle I invite you to come out to Long Island. Eastern Nassau and Suffolk drivers give even Bostonites a run for their money

[@lucasbrunelle]

@@UnlinealHand Lookn fwd to it, I'll be in NYC next summer 🌆🌚

[@halliwaxbasementbuilds]

Facts Lucas! 75% of the cars I grab on to up here either scream at me or will violently swerve to force me to let go. I envy you’re videos down In Miami, looks like a friendly cycling community and the traffic is friendly as well

[@the_feature_selector859]

Darwin awaits your idiocy!!!

[@JengaBikes]

Where are you from? Chicago rider here, looking for some friends to play in traffic w me

[@lucasbrunelle]

It's unusual here, same way in Central America though ✔

[@halliwaxbasementbuilds]

@@JengaBikes masschusetts, still trying to meet up with lucas once he's in the area

[@halliwaxbasementbuilds]

@@lucasbrunelle next summer lucas i'd love to meet up with ya

[@billysunshine9100]

Dude- thank you so much for your take on the bike lane topic. I left Chicago for many years and came back to a whole new bike lane system, everywhere. While I appreciate the attention and it does serve the public bike using novice, it is not at all safe for an experienced rider that actually gains speed. One thing you didn't mention that I see all the time, especially downtown and in Wicker Park, is pedestrians blindly stepping into the bike lane while staring at their phone, watching where their Uber is. I find my place best on the center line, in traffic, truly the safest spot, while drivers are mad I'm not in the bike lane, then they turn right without a signal and cut the lane completely unexpectedly. Along Logan Blvd, a cyclist was struck in the summer at a rather wild intersection and it prompted a new bike lane. This lane has completely gridlocked traffic at all times and actually made it very unsafe at the intersection, as now pissed off motorists are forcing themselves through into a turn lane onto the highway (always without a signal). While gun violence is completely out of control in these neighborhoods, our mayor (not a cyclist), has announced a huge plan to add hundreds of miles of bike lanes to Chicago. Surely those designing these lanes do not consider the things you and I have. As a daily cyclist with decades of experience, I'd prefer all those bike lane funds go to fighting gun violence, it kills waaaaaaaaaay more people, every single day.

[@event4216]

Bike lanes are for slow rolling on a bike. Cyclists are better to use lanes. I love rolling up on a bridge using lane which recently got new flat tarmac, while cyclists use so called bike lane which accidentally is also pedestrian path between lane and bridge railing (how stupid one has to be to mix a ped. path with bike lane?!?). Many drivers are signalling me even if lane is wide enough to overtake me safely, thinking I should squeeze through pedestrians like other cyclists. My take is cyclists should respect pedestrians and not use pedestrian path, and just use lane.

[@billysunshine9100]

@@event4216 In Chicago the pedestrian path is called a sidewalk, and those have all been there for over a hundred years, easy to distinguish the difference here.

[@event4216]

@@billysunshine9100 Yeah, sidewalk. I did mean sidewalk. Our idiots mix sidewalk and cycling lane into one path, so no wonder only grannies want to use them.

[@billysunshine9100]

@@event4216 Our lakefront path was once a mixed path, this last year the city has finished splitting the two, yet it is not ever properly respected. I don't expect these things to always be perfect, especially since the lakefront path is a huge attraction for tourists and they're not here everyday. Really what it comes down to is awareness. Cyclists are indeed more aware than most on the road, I think its ridiculous when a cyclist flips out over a simple obstacle they could see from a mile away. If you cruise KZbin you can find channels devoted to this, oddly enough most of them are out of the UK. When I drove a car daily on commutes, it blew my mind how unaware motorists are, and so much more so since smartphones entered our lives. Just think about it, every single car on the road could be looking at their phones, texting. I have never texted while riding my bike.

[@event4216]

@@billysunshine9100 Yeah, smartphones are great distractions. But I also see many cyclists wearing headphones, no way Id ride without hearing every sound which can be that last warning.

[@brianmaina5732]

Haha you just get in to Havard like that 😂😂😂

[@chad.765]

Good one, love it when you teach us strategy and walk us through your thought process and mad skills execution 👌

[@MisterSal9895]

I enjoy the riding with commentary videos keep it up

[@razhden1680]

Nice lesson of brunelling!

[@jacquesdemolay5171]

Not enough traffic. Lucas is disappointed. If you're going to run with the bulls, you need bulls. Legend.

[@robinheil]

Ghost Bike at 10:34

[@event4216]

I'm sure you are giving drivers temporary heart strokes!

[@ianlinsey1133]

Greetings from Cambridge uk

[@shaldon08]

Me too

[@bigphones666]

Ayy my man, i was just about to hop on my bike

[@felicetanka]

Playing chess on a court is Padel tennis. popular in Miami.

[@carl8568]

ID please.. just keep riding 😂 Love it.

[@MassiveJetGrind]

6:13 I used to service that BoA ATM. :3

[@cianmulholland3086]

yes

[@cliffcox7643]

Since I've watched you, Ive tried skitching and did it how you said, behind the wheel, and with the claw grip. Personally, I don't want anyone hanging on to my car though, cause I drive crazy and looking out for the other persons life limits my crazy driving.

[@lucasbrunelle]

I drive crazy too and have hung onto some crazy drivers weaving in and out of lanes 🎲

[@joangregg4378]

I can't believe turkeys were in the middle of that city.

[@breedx2]

Oof that ghost bike near the end in front of the campus near the chess boards...⚰🚲🕊

[@immolatewarlock6542]

Amazed you can bunny hop so much and not burst your tyres. Are you tubeless and what pressure do you run at?

[@maxym777]

Також дуже цікаво

[@elkellenhabla]

I think technique certainly plays a role too, such as being light in the saddle

[@MattyBrad]

I'm not Lucas. But I run tubes @ 110 and it's fine.

[@billysunshine9100]

@@MattyBrad I'm at 120 and I treat my road bike like I'm on a mountain bike

[@billysunshine9100]

@@maxym777 No one here speaks Wingdings

[@yeahbuddy4712]

Your riding skills....Next level. I think you would be sick on a mountain bike

[@lucasbrunelle]

Want to see more woods, so yes

[@JessePike5]

Your world is beautiful

[@walterusrex]

Folow you from so much years, great rides🤘, do you have in future plans for something outside cityes? Or maybe a new full movie with some nice rides

[@lucasbrunelle]

Yes, the wilderness is awesome and I don't spend enough time there 🌳🛤🌲

[@walterusrex]

@@lucasbrunelle try to ride more often in nature is more better than in cityes

[@lucasbrunelle]

@@walterusrex Will do, the death maze is rad but I need big sky and nature sometimes

[@DDogDylan]

This is awesome, your riding trough my home town, im close by harvard if you ever wanna ride together

[@Ponder_lust]

What kind of health insurance have you got Lucas, if you don’t mind me asking.

[@k1zmt]

He is probably banned by all providers and has to pay cash for whatever he performs on the road.

[@lucasbrunelle]

Blue Cross but it's hella expensive every month because they know 🎲🚩🏴

[@Ponder_lust]

@@lucasbrunelle nasty reputation 😂

[@wheeliebrady9294]

Just ordered your stickers for my EUC 🤩. Id love to ride with you.

[@Eric_Tennant]

Lucas Brunelle Longest Ride 172.6 mi . Nice. Take it you don't always run Strava when you ride? I just switched over from mapmyride to Strava.

[@lucasbrunelle]

I run Garmin on every ride but only Strava the bangers 📸📽

[@Eric_Tennant]

@@lucasbrunelle I'm still using my phone as a poor mans Garmin. Loving the crap out of Strava. I can be a loner and race with other at the same time. Here I am racing road bikes with a touring loaded mtb. My ego for some reason thinks it can win. In reality's I'm about 10mph slower. I follow you on Strava now. Its nice to see your stats.

[@lucasbrunelle]

@@Eric_Tennant Nice! 10mph slower doesn't matter - you're racing and never know what's gonna happen 🎲

[@andrewzhang2621]

What is harvard university + lucas Brunelle? 2 different worlds confronted or merged together?

[@lucasbrunelle]

My biz is too risky for their grads 😎🎲

[@andrewzhang2621]

​@@lucasbrunelleyes, there’s the paradox following the rules isn’t really safe. People won’t live I guess.

[@mattelliottmusic]

What's up with your brakes?

[@lucasbrunelle]

Oh the noise, many days I wish for rim brakes

[@トンプソンスレッジ]

Why are you holding a strange handle?

[@lucasbrunelle]

Quicker to jump and/or skid if I need to

[@johnr8820]

Miami looks like it belongs in Massachusetts

[@tcrossau]

What's the meaning behind the Nauru flag on the bike?

[@lucasbrunelle]

See 12mins 49 secs of kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJKaqHmtndFkfpY

[@k1zmt]

There are rumors about automatic fines for road rules violations in Boston. Interesting, how is it going to work with cyclists?...

[@lucasbrunelle]

I don't know, I don't stop for anything

[@eldroo7398]

It’s amazing how noone honks at you. Is everyone in US so polite? If I did any of that shit here in Poland cars would not only honk but drive over me just to teach me a lesson

[@lucasbrunelle]

There's a certain way to move through traffic that shows you know how to break the law and speed but courteously

[@ronm7114]

@@lucasbrunelle they not as easy going beyond USA buddy. Once they know what u do and show up again it will get more and more diffucult to get away with such and rightfully so imo. Whats even the point of going fast like that. So u can let go and drive fast past other riders lol. They never think "wow that guy is fast" they mostly think ur an idiot probably. .

[@lucasbrunelle]

@@ronm7114 Not sure why another rider would equate speed and agility with stupidity

[@ronm7114]

@@lucasbrunelle they know ur skitchin so it's not like they think ur riding that fast on ur own strength. Ur fast nevertheless though.

[@ronm7114]

@@lucasbrunelle in Netherlands ud probably make headlines. They don't tolerate this here whatsoever. Especially if u got on the freeway

[@JG0929]

Your riding is the reason cagers hate us.

[@neindanke1629]

Car drivers expect bikes to be in the bike lane but they don't complain about off road suv's on the road

[@neindanke1629]

I'd please

[@TheArchiveOfWonder]

It's kinda funny you talking about "respect" on the road when it seems to me you just do whatever you want on the road and expect other people to adjust to you, mostly. Skitching definitely crosses that line a bit too, even though you are taking the risk you are involving other people who may or may not want to be involved in your games.

[@lucasbrunelle]

It's more about respect and less about the law

[@ronm7114]

Running across red lights and shit. The only reason u can do that is cause everyone else is following the rules. U ever thought about that?

[@lucasbrunelle]

It would actually be easier if people didn't follow the rules

[@ronm7114]

@@lucasbrunelle idkm I mean nice vids I get it. U cut from the right wood but kinda dangerous and shit. I'm not hating though.

[@dancer1]

1st

[@maxym777]

Молодець

[@event4216]

I've never been first. But then I'm also not a racer, just a dude on bike.

[@the_feature_selector859]

So much courtesy you show