What is it about bicycle lanes that turns people into shouty braindead panic robots? Case in point: This news report casts bike lanes as literally a terrorist threat.

After getting a $50 ticket for not riding his bike in the painted "bike lane," this militant bicyclist went out of his way to crash into every obstacle placed in the way of New York City's bicyclists.

A clever tagger in Portland, Oregon has painted the Williams Avenue bike lane with various items found in Nintendo's Mario Kart racing series. Bikers can power up with stars, mushrooms and shells, but beware the banana peel.