Ingredients:
- 40,000 pound city transit bus
- Lazy-ass or law-breaking bus driver (see if you can find one that’s both)
- One 28-pound steel-framed sea foam green Fairdale Weekender Archer bicycle named Sophie (substitutions allowed)
- Experienced person on said bicycle, vulnerable to said buses
- Narrow traffic and bike lanes on most dangerous section of road in Austin for bikes
- Friday evening rush hour
- Big pot of history of near misses with city buses for the bicyclist
- Memory of John Anthony Diaz, a cyclist killed by same bus company (separate into two portions)
- Kettle full of road rage for the bus driver
- Add a pinch, a soupçon, or a schosche of irritating, smelly bus riders into the mix
A Dude Abikes 