Forming a spontaneous crew with other ebikes, scooters, motorcycles, etc. In thick LA rush hour traffic taps into some deep pack/herd/shoaling instinct. Like we are just out here splitting lanes and being magnificent together, hitting the pothole jumps, flipping off the cybertrucks. It makes you sad when one of your pack has to turn off and go away. I remember the bike highway in Eugene which had bike rush hour, makes you feel alive in a big school of people surging over the road instead of trapped in a box hell with only yourself.
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Breaking like a liquid over the cars who think they are getting ahead in their cars by being aggressive and jutting halfway between lanes. Fools. That's not how you get ahead. You get ahead by being a liquid and dripping through the cracks. Not by being a solid and trying to shove your way through a pile of solids.
@jonny reminds me of the time i was in heavy Seattle rush hour traffic on my bike and outran an ambulance with lights and sirens on
@jonny a common metaphor is that cars are a gas, as in they will systematically take up all of the space that's available to them, no more, no less. which is nonetheless compatible with the bike-as-liquid metaphor.
