Hmmm … interesting. Well, it’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone in NYC with such tight, bright orange-and-blue spandex tights on a bike. Maybe he’s from Auburn …

Granted we are not a big city, but we have lots of cyclists. And, many of them often sport the orange and blue spandex. Some of them, I am sure, might like it when you called them sexy.

Nice shot.

Thanks for the suggestion; it had not occurred to me that the viewer would not have seen all of the alternatives that I had considered and rejected, and might be frustrated by the "sterile" (traffic-free) nature of this scene.

Indeed, I had taken about half a dozen different shots of this guy, some of which did include the surrounding traffic. I’ve added a note near the beginning of my annotation for this photo, which includes a link to an alternative, traffic-filled photo; I’ll let you and other viewers decide which one you think is best. (This also reminds me of advice I’ve gotten from a few photo-instructors: perhaps I should also have considered a black-and-white alternative to this shot, to ensure that I wasn’t allowing myself to be distracted by the gaudy color of the bicyclist’s uniform.)