Garry Winogrand, [Woman riding bicycle] from Women are Beautiful, 1975 (257.1984)

Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice.

— Author unknown, “Talk of the Town,” The New Yorker, June 9, 1986