although not to work (no showers).

I have been looking at the electric bikes recently, but probably won’t spend the money.

Take care. I bet it’s really cool riding in NYC.

I'm still fit enough I can cruise pretty fast; on the segregated ped/bike paths it's quite fun, like riding the Tour de France, or a moto in sparse slow traffic...on the streets it's a whole different ballgame. Thousands of cagers and they're even more ignorant of you, or even more actively trying to kill you. I damn near need a drink after crossing 14th.

The other cyclists laughed at me for having two moto-sized mirrors on my bar-ends, but as I said I cycle the exact same way I moto - 150% 360-degree awareness.

In my neighborhood it's like the wild west with cyclists. Running lights, criss-crossing intersections, speeding down sidewalks, riding against traffic, weaving in and around traffic....

I have often wished there were rules of the road for cyclists.

Also wish traffic cops would pay attention and...I think there needs to be some consideration to licensing cyclists

At least here in NYC, we're technically motor vehicles. To be fair I have a bit of a flexible view of the law on both a moto and a cycle (e.g. filtering/lane splitting, squeezing by on the shoulder, MAYBE ignoring a red late at night after a full stop and check, stop-sign style), but "salmoning" (riding against), sidewalk riding, blowing lights, diagonally crossing intersections, no no no.

I'm not sure I'd favor licensing, only insomuch as a lot of very poor folk only have a crappy bike and even a $50 license would be a time and money burden, but knowing the rules and more importantly knowing how to survive are definitely important.

is where I am referring to

To be fair and clear, most cyclists here are fine, but the few that are assholes are REAL ASSHOLES. I run quite a bit too, one of my favorite activities when I see a reckless cyclist is to play chicken with them...once or twice I may have just not gotten out of the way fast enough Officer, their handlebar whacked my elbow, so sorry they went facefirst onto the asphalt, accidents happen huh?

I'm lucky enough to live in Manhattan on Riverside, once I cross the street I have ten miles of essentially uninterrupted greenway down to the Battery...I can stretch it to about 14.5 if I go up the East River to 42nd. I really hate and avoid the streets if possible.

UWS...

to me that the bike riders there not only followed rules but so did pedestrians and cars. It is an interesting mix but it works because they all follow the rules. I found out that if you are walking and a bike rider sees you breaking a rule they honk their bike horns loudly at you. This is very serious to them and it works out well for the zillion bike riders that are in the city.

There's a small, vocal minority of cyclists here in NYC who think the rules are flexible at best and mostly just to be ignored, and they smear ALL of us.

At least they're the ones who usually get literally smeared, but it's in poor taste to point that out..

with a growing number of citizens .. that think rules are for "chumps" (I have some thoughts on why and how we got here -- but I'll hold them for the moment) Point is, it doesn't take a lot of thought to see where eventually this becomes a real problem.
(in my own biking I tend to be "fairly" law abiding .. and everyone else has the right of way ..)

As long as that means stop-and-go at a quiet red, or filtering (riding between cars to get to the front at a light), or lane-splitting, or many other things - but NOT blowing reds at top speed, riding on the sidewalk, "training" in Central Park at 20+mph nonstop, diagonal crossing intersections, or trying to pass dump trucks turning right because you have "right of way" (more than one cyclist has been squished here doing that, but it's Uncool to point it out).

So be smart about what you can do versus cars, and yes flex the law a little, but don't be an asshole about it.