Biking in NYC requires having your head on a swivel. Not just for cars, buses, and trucks but for pedestrians looking at their phones, pedestrians looking at other peoples phones, errant food carts, hovercrafts, eldritch horrors, and more often than not: other cyclists.

To ride is to never stop looking left, right, and over your shoulder - never stop anticipating. Take every intersection as not 4 invitations to chaos but n+1 gold embossed RSVP cards for mayhem. Proceeding with your eyes on everything at all times.

Everything behaves better when being watched, even if the eye staring at them isn’t real. Since time immemorial, the ward against evil eye has been a single eye staring straight back, putting whatever is out there on notice.

The eye of providence never sleeps but nor does the evil eye.

Keep all your eyes up. Bike safe. Bike slow. Check Six.