Indeed, after a 30 to 40-year hiatus, the kickback hub is back! I have an old Bendix 2-speed kickback hub on one of my bikes. I love it. It’s really the perfect hub for a simple tooling-around-the-city bike. The only problem with mine is that it is four pounds. I assume the new version is…
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Ben Fried over at Streetsblog has the data. In New York, about 10,000 pedestrians are injured in motor vehicle crashes per year. About 50 in bike collisions.
A story by Lionel Beehner in the Times. I still say Ride the City is much better. But I assume Google maps in catching up every day.
The generally unremarkable Indian (or Bangladeshi or Pakistani) Bodega on 31st Street just north of the 30 Ave Subway Stop (east side of street) — which does, finally sell beer — has some of the ab-so-lute-ly most fucking hot peppers in the world on sale. They’re laid out on a Hindi newspaper by the register.…
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The DOT has confirmed that there will be no bike lanes above 29thStreet on Hoyt/Astoria Blvd. The proposed bike lanes in the AstoriaTriangle Redesign were eliminated due to CB1 opposition. However, given this change, the DOT has decided to widen the parking laneswhere the bike lanes were supposed to be, so as to give cyclists…
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In Astoria. Posted on Craig’s List on Wednesday afternoon. In front of 21-28 29th St.: Come and pick up two free bikes in front of 2128 29th street. Both are rather old but in working condition. One is a men’s bike the other is a woman’s bike with a basket. We are moving and just…
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This other video from Amsterdam Public Transport is also pretty damn good.
Plenty to do in Amsterdam… thanks to GVB, Amsterdam public transportation. But I’m posting this because it may be the slickest ad ever for public transportation (with the old Detroit People Mover song as a close second).
I was reading the paper today and came across this picture. “Gee,” I thought, “that guy sure looks familiar!” “Why,” I shouted, “that guy looks just like Bashar al-Assad!” I turned to look at my fridge magnet of Bashar Assad. (What? doesn’t everybody have a fridge magnet of their favorite middle-eastern dictator?) And there he…
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Would anybody be interested in officially welcoming the Q train to Astoria? It might be fun. The Q runs to Ditmars starting the 27th. I know it’s been there a few times for a visit, but now it’s ours for real (The W is already dead to me). One of the dirty secrets of the…
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