“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning,” E.B. White wrote in his timeless love letter to New York. “The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.” And sometimes, I may add as someone who takes daily joy in roaming Gotham on two wheels, to the accompaniment of spokes. From designer, illustrator, and School of Visual Arts alum Kurt McRobert comes this impossibly delightful illustrated taxonomy of Gotham’s bike-riding archetypes, which applies in varying degrees to any city and comes as a fine addition to similar visual taxonomies of Gotham’s four types of jaywalkers and its three classes of cats.

McRobert missed the doggie-daddy, who is a regular delight, but that’s okay.

Complement with this entertaining Victorian list of don’ts for women cyclists, then see the tables turned as the bicycle helped emancipate women, then treat yourself to this lovely bicycle-inspired illustrated exploration of relationship cliches by legendary French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé.