This Cyclist Took Back the Bike Lane on the Brooklyn Bridge 

if there was a rear camera i bet it would just show all those people would just go back onto the bike lane

Welcome to Bicycle Simulator, where you can press X to yell at pedestrians

I guarantee that all of those people are just going back into it behind him.

_This cyclist managed to use clear communication to cross the bridge quickly and safely._ *"Hello!" "Yoyoyo" "Hello! Hello!"*

Whatever your opinion on bike lanes...that was a hell of a wheelie, in the rain, on a crowded bridge.

Simultaneously, 7 thousand people yell.. "Hey, I'm walking here!"

what nobody knew was, that he was just running with a bike handle, front fork and front wheel lifted in the air all the way. true story you know !!

1:08 the wheel automatically turns to point to offending pedestrians

1:55 "This cyclist managed to use clear communication". Five seconds later: YO! YO! YO! hahahahahahaha

“The cyclist managed to cross the bridge quickly and safely” **Wheelies across a 2.8 mile bridge on a wet surface**

Did he.. just pop a wheelie through the entire bridge, and didn't hit a single person?

as a motorcyclist I can relate... every time I try to ride my motorcycle over the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian walkway.. people look at me funny...

Legends say he is still wheeling

2:10 I'm surprised how he manged to get through that one

It's like playing Subway Surfer but with a bike and way more difficult

Using clear communtication - 5s later: YO YO YO

This looks like some good VR game

It took a wheelie long time to get across that bridge.

Alternate Reality: *_Man walks on sidewalk full of cyclists..._*

This is why the netherlands is so nice, the bike lanes are actually bike lanes and not extra pedestrian lanes

i dont even have a bike but...RESPECT BIKE LANES

~Bike Lane. Bike Lane. You are in the Bike laaaaaane.~

to be fair to the pedestrians, that's a narrow ass walkway for that many people

It is a damn shame you have to do all that just to claim your right of way.

What I'm getting here is that this bridge space really is too narrow.

Lmaoooo, this would never happen in Denmark! People fear the bike lane more that the actual road 😂

plot twist : he was walking using only forks, bars and a wheel😒

*Star wars theme Intensifies!* "Bike lane!... your in the Bike Lane!"

He's actually just walking with the front part of a bike. You all got trolled.

How can people walk without even looking before them..?.. I'll never understand that. Whatever is coming at you, you totally deserve it.

Shocking twist he’s not riding a bike just holding handlebars attached to a wheel 😱😱

They see me rollin...they hatin

Been riding my whole life. Mountain biker. Can't do a wheelie worth a damn

So he asked people to move. They did. Then got back in the lane. Nothing accomplished 😐

Its almost like some people expected him to move out of the way of them

Plot twist : he just holding front wheel and yelling at people while walking ...

I'd just swap a bell out for a air horn and im sure people would move out the way purly from being scared

I like this guy... great job.

You can see hundreds if not thousands of pedestrians on the bridge, and maybe 10 cyclists. It's not exactly surprising that pedestrians will expand out of their lane into the bike lane. Here in Seattle though, where cyclists go by every few seconds, nobody walks/stands in the bike lane because you'll get clobbered.

Imagine walking on a bike lane and wearing active noise cancellation headphones 😂 off

Meanwhile in Russia: A cyclist has a 1500 Watt Musicbox on the back and clears the bike lane like an real russian

Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?..... ...right this way sir sorry to keep you waiting

3:05 pedestrians take back the bike lane

Pedestrians when they see a bike on the bike lane: "Ayo wtf"

2:00 "The cyclist used clear communication to..." "*YO YO YO*"

That is an epic wheelie.

Bike lanes need better markings to deter ignorant pedestrians. In addition to marking it as a bike lane it would be good if there were markings stating " No pedestrians allowed " in the form of a person walking ,with a circle around the person and a red diagonal slash through the circle.

The most New York thing I've seen in a while. It's the evolution of 'I'm walkin ere!'

He should give everyone walking on the bike lane a neckslap while passing by

It's like a bad 70's cop show.

how tf do you even wheelie for that long

*Plot twist: He wasn't actually riding a bicycle but holding a handlebar*

I don't know how you live in cities like that. Too many people.

On the flip side notice how narrow walking lane is. That's the problem.

Does this mean he made a world record on a bicycle??

I bet his calves are in fantastic shape!

Meanwhile I can't even do a wheelie 😢

This might seem like a douchebag thing to do, but it's honestly the worst when people block the bike lanes because then bicyclists will go on the road due to the bike lanes being filled and they'll slow down traffic to a crawl and piss everyone off. Please, stay clear of the bike lanes and respect that people bike around. I'm lucky in that my city has bike lanes on the roads, but some cities pair them with the sidewalk and dumb people cause trouble for everyone when they block them

Well damn can we discuss if he broke any records for longest wheely?

Guy wheelies by a baby carriage missing it by a foot shouting "YO YO YO" This video: Clear comunication.

I don't know how to feel about those parents pushing the baby's pushchair in the bike lane. I get that they wouldn't get very far very quickly if using the pedestrian side as it's so densely populated, but one hit to the pushchair from an oncoming cyclists and that baby could be dead. Seems like a horrible bridge in general.

There are a dozen videos of people complaining about this. Why can't they put a small physical barrier up? Just enough to remind people to stay on their side? I suppose they'd just step over it

If you could do that dressed up like Jerry Lewis and just keep saying “hey lady!”

why is nobody commenting about how absolutely impressive that wheelie is? Over a mile, no breaks, as its raining, going over wood, in a crowded area. How the hell is that even possible

Biker: I have secured the control point but I don’t think I can hold them off

Attach a Train Horn to a bike.. xD

Legend says he still continues wheeling today

Man i hate it when people walk in cycle lanes. They should have to pay fines

Except he gets pushed out of the bike lane at 2:10

why does this sound like background noise in a video game

Haha, here in the Netherlands, we don't have this problem, more bikes than people, and more chance of getting ran over.

Seems like 90% of Brooklyn pedestrians are blind or can’t read! That’s one hell of a wheelie! RESPECT!

Can't believe how frustrated I am just watching it. I come across the odd walker in the cycle lane and that's enough!

That’s how I feel about cyclists going through red lights.

That was wheelie fun to watch!

Those 5.1 k dislike are from those people who walks on bicycle lane

2:10 "Get out the bike lane" *gets out the bike lane himself*

Well hmm, he's only using one wheel so that makes him a uni-cycle not a bi-cycle and thus he shouldn't be in the bi-cycle lane! (ok, ok...i'll get my coat :) )

"Safely cross" *wheelies whole way*

I just love the background music and his tone of voice makes it look so video game like

Imagine he isn’t even doing an wheelie and just holding half a bike and making it look like he rides it 😂

Now I've seen hundreds of wheelies in my life, but this is the SMOOTHEST and longest wheelie I've seen.

*almost hits a biker* GET OUT OF THE BIKE LANE

If dummy hits a pedestrian in the bike lane while doing a wheelie, the police will say it's his fault. That's no place for stunt riding.

Love going over that bridge as fast as I can. I have a super loud horn. Scared a few people

People are always walking on the bike lane on that bridge. Pisses me off

Cool, so if i use the same logic i can do this to bikers with my car when they take the whole road.

This should have been the title, "The biker took back the bike lane on the Brooklyn Bridge while doing a wheelie to the end in rain"

I have had a problem here with Joggers(only VERY occasionally and very few, most are cool people) in Ireland taking up Cycling Lanes...(LOOONG story upcoming, if you can't read over 9000 then don't try) One Man attempted to push me over recently in a Cycling lane with a fully marked(and recently demarcated) Jogging/walking lane RIGHT BESIDE IT,guy genuinely grabbed my handlebars, and then my shoulder and tried to upend me...didn't end well for him, I am a lifelong Student in a few Martial Arts,with lots of Security work under my belt, and as it was, in the area we were with the chance of me going over the side of the Bridge we were on into traffic on a Major road 20+ feet below I felt justified to grab his ear and keep ahold of it while I dismounted, then took a knee and pointed out the HUGE "cyclists only" road markings, AND the "Walking/Jogging" lane RIGHT beside it, He was very abusive and struggled to hit me for the first 10 seconds or so til I calmly told him how little pressure it takes for an ear grip to go horribly wrong (for him).. When we got down low I released his ear and just gently grabbed behind his elbow... At that stage (and all morning really) I had a visible Camera recording the the litany of abuse and threats he was making. A small group composed of 50/50 cyclists and Walkers/Runners were all video-ing the event by the time I finished speaking to him about common courtesy, clearly marked lanes, bullying etc. It turned out the Man in question had quite a reputation for bullying people on that corner(especially Children) which he considered "HIS CORNER" and important for his lap times...(he apparently just jogged around and back in that area looking for a victim,his glasses must have been fogged up that morning :P ) After some discussion we as a group decided to call the Gardai who happened to have a Garda Cyclist around the area who had a whole LITANY of complaints against this surly and foul mouthed individual, he then UPPED the Ante by abusing the Bean Garda( a discontinued way of calling a Woman in Uniform a "Female cop" and something he made sound dirty) in terms that would make a Sailor blush,he then went to grab the Gard by the shoulder and before any of us could intervene and before he knew it - he was face-down on his favourite bridge with a knee in his back and cuffs getting secured before he could blink(nor any of us!) A Garda van was on the way in a jiffy and while we waited I spoke to the Gard about the chances of him getting charged(very high),the chances of him getting a short sentence or NO sentence due to his behavior(I hate to sound like a "Mary Sue" but I also have some experience in the Forensic Psychology area) and the Gard replied firmly that he was capable of running a business etc so would not wriggle out on a Psych Technicality, I wonder now if I had just wheelied into his chin as he went to grab me would I have saved a lot of trouble? For those that lasted this long, take an internet, and thank you the Wheelie Gent and Bicycling Mag for the clip and PS...are you looking for a European Writer?

Not all heros wear capes

Only if cyclists moves or shares the road like that with vehicles

No one gonna talk about that good wheelie

New York just needs to hire a bike cop doing that all day😅

I can't be the only one filled with anxiety watching this

IM WALKING HERE

“Show them sheer terror to make them move.” got it!

0:00 I thougt that "woohoo" was part of the music. He's awesome lol.

Why dont they put a fence in the middle

Honestly, it's a bad design in favour of the bikers. You can't just split the sidewalk in half between the hundreds of pedestrians and the occasional bikers.

Text: The bicyclist used clear communication to get people out of his way" Bicyclist: YO! YO! HELLO! YO!