Memorial

I took this picture in Hyde Park near the Elisabet Ney Museum back in May 2005. I'm thinking of snapping a series of street and streetside memorials. I really need to get a shot of that bicycle memorial strapped to a street sign on West Sixth. I don't know if this painted memorial has survived but some info about the accident has although it's sketchy.

The other day there was a cyclist in front of me going down Nueces between Fifteenth and Sixth. This stretch has a bunch of four-way stops (the above accident was at such an intersection) so it was no trouble just staying behind this cyclist because he came to a full stop at each then accelerated athletically while I was stopping. Thus he managed the same pace as a car. At one stop, he started to push off when a guy who was careering down a steep hill on a bike, shirtless, helmetless whizzed right through the intersection. The guy in front of me paused, balanced in his lycra outfit, calves rippling and waved his fist at the guy. But really who would have thought the other guy would stop? In any case, let's all watch out for each other. At my old house we lived on a street with a popular bike lane. We built a circular drive to keep vehicles out of it as much as possible and to allow us to pull out headfirst, keeping an eye out. At my new 'house' (the high rise) our next door neighbor to the north is a one story bike shop. So when we enter or leave the garage we need to be alert to cyclists. And, indeed, cyclists who may not stop for stop signs. They needed to see that guy on Nueces the other day who made obeying the traffic rules look like a workout in itself.