I was buying a bike tire at my favorite Astoria/Long Island City Bike Store (Bicycle Repair Man, 40-11 35th Ave, tel: 718 706-0450. Open 10 – 7, closes around 2 on Sunday). And was eyeing the Continentals 3000. They’re expensive ($45-$50), but I’ve had good luck with them. He only had yellow. I didn’t want…
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One thing this blog isn’t about is where or how far I biked on my latest ride. I don’t care about your ride. I don’t expect you to care about mine. But Saturday night a friend was over with a bike I gave him (see oh those sexy french ladies’ frames below. I wasn’t going…
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I just learned that Sheldon Brown has a bad-case muscular disease. Perhaps a particularly bad kind of M.S. (and even the good cases aren’t great). At some point, he’s inspired a whole lot of people on bikes. And anybody who has ever put wrench to bike has looked at his web site, the first source…
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There’s an article in the current New Yorker about bike culture in New York City. I was afraid to read it for a few days because I just knew it would piss me off. I read it. I didn’t piss me off in an angry way. It just pissed me off because it’s a pretty…
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The New Yorker piece on bikes has this crazy guy in the article who was all into the importance of everybody obeying the law—especially bikes. Even though this freak had no problem littering his cigarette butts while ranting about other people (say in German accent:) not following the rules! [I have to give some props…
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I’m always been impressed by what bikes can carry. Someone just sent me these pictures.
I was down in the Yucatan, Mexico, and discovered that tricycles were the most common form of taxi and transport in villiages and small towns. The sad part is they’ll probably eventually all get replaced with loud motorized vehicles as they get more money. There was even the occasional bike path next to some major…
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