This is the coolest thing ever! If I lived somewhere with hills. I’ve always sort of dreamed of a sort of ski lift for bikes. I had no idea my dreams have been realized for over a decade, in Trondheim. Here’s the official PR:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtB8DX70ihM Here’s the renegade action shots:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j1PgmMbug8
Nothing like a little body-on-car contact to remind you you’re alive. So a little before midnight I’m biking on 59th, crossing Madison. I’m one lane from the left. There’s a black stretch limo to my right (never where you want to be at an intersection, but there’s a lot of traffic). The limo starts turning…
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7095134.stm Bike sex man placed on probationA man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation. Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex. Sheriff Colin Miller also placed Stewart on the Sex Offenders…
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I like both bikes and venison. My friend sent me this picture from a while back. Now *that’s* a bike carry.
I’m sick of reading about how cool Portland, Oregon is. But here’s yet another story… New York TimesNovember 5, 2007In Portland, Cultivating a Culture of Two WheelsBy WILLIAM YARDLEY PORTLAND, Ore. — Susan Peithman did not have a job lined up when she moved here in September to pursue a career in “nonmotorized transportation.” No…
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A mildly interesting discussion in the comments on the NYT Freakonomics blog. I like the statistical point that it makes more sense to compare trip to trip and not mile to mile, since people who bike likely have shorter commutes. I also like the point that it would save more lives if people wore helmets…
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Instead of just complaining, I thought I’d actually be constructive and show what we want (that’s the royal we, of course). [Before you go on, take a quick and wild guess as to how many north/south traffic lanes there are spanning the width of Manhattan at 57th St.] As it stands now, every time I…
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We went to see David Byrne talk about bikes. At Town Hall and part of the New Yorker Festival. It was nice. Certainly a preaching-to-the-choir kind of event. But I enjoyed it. What I liked: That 1,200 people would pay $25 to see David Byrne talk about bikes. Jan Gehl’s spiel about biking in Copenhagen.…
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I received a comment from an editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette telling about this article“The Limberness of the Fixed Gear Mind” (they left out the the hyphen, not me) by Jeff Guerrero, publisher of Urban Velo, a Pittsburgh-based cycling magazine and daily Web site. It’s a great read, probably the best single summary of fixed-gear…
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So I was riding my fixed-gear bike to work the other day. While going over the new horrible series of bumps on Crescent St. as you approach the bridge, my chain came off. It’s never happened before. And it wasn’t a big deal, because I have a hand brake on my fixed-gear bike. So I…
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