Here’s a link to the NYC bike safety report. It doesn’t really say much. Or blame cars enough. And most of the statistics are pretty useless, most often because they have no denominator. What’s the use of knowing bike injuries by month if you don’t know how many people ride each month? And despite my…
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A post about Heaven on Keep It Street Level: Riding a one-gear bike takes effort, especially when hills are involved. And sometimes it’s a real struggle out there. But every so often, Heaven is reached on the road. The grade of the road, the selected gear ratio and leg strength all come together at once…
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So I was coming back from the Lower East Side biking home at 3am. Unromantically, I left my wife to take the subway because she didn’t bike. But the Queensboro Bridge bike path is closed. For construction. Like is has been on and off for a year. But instead of waiting for the bus or…
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Check out the NYPD’s parade permit, now needed to assemble groups on bikes. Believe it or not, I still have faith that the courts will rule this in mad-crazy violation of, well, the First Amendment. I’ll be really scared when it turns out I’m wrong. I like the bizarro permit from Why I ride much…
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It’s really not such a big deal. I barely left the house in January, as I was writing. But now that I’ve got to go to school and it’s cold out, let me put in my two cents for biking in the cold. To repeat: it’s not such a big deal. Most “normal” people think…
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I was in London very briefly this week to meet my brother. London isn’t my favorite city. I’ve always thought I should like it more. I love big cities. And they speak English. And very nicely. But the food sucks. The women are kinda ugly on average. And the weather sucks. (I flew Air India……
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From a comment: I’m trying to decide on a new bike for riding in the city, commuting to work, and getting to farmer’s markets. I figure regular rides will be short- 3-5 miles, but there will be a random 10+ miler once in a while. Any ideas? I’m looking at some touring bikes and I’m…
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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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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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