When I was riding into work today up Lafayette Street, an FDNY tiller truck passed me at East Houston. As I pulled behind it after it passed me, things got weird at Great Jones Street. It was still going at a good pace and then, all of sudden, its rear began to fishtail. It took me a second to realize that it was a controlled fishtail by the guy steering in the back.

I had never seen a tiller truck make a turn like that before and it was really cool. I didn’t get a real good look at the truck because, you know, I was trying to avoid getting hit by it, but it was probably FDNY Ladder #6 from the Chinatown Dragonfighters.