My mother writes:What is a good folding bike for me? I am interested in a bike that is light-weight and can be easily folded. It does not need to be too compact. I want to put in in the car, drive somewhere and explore the neighborhood. A few gears would be nice, but I do…
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It always pisses me off when people complain about bikes running red lights and not obeying traffic laws. Traffic laws are there for cars. Cars kill people. Not bikes. We wouldn’t need red lights if it weren’t for cars. Running a red light on a bike is akin to jaywalking: nominally illegal but something we…
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I got a call from some pollster asking me about my latest Amtrak travel. Sure, I’d love to talk about my train travel. It was horrible designed, by the way. And asked me about 30 slight variations regarding price and time and whether I would chose faster Acela or slower regular train. I can’t believe…
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I always think it’s funny when car owners act amazed when I tell them I lock my bike without fear on the street. These are the same people who park a $20,000 car on the street. Knock on wood… I’ve never had a bike stolen. Some pain-in-the-ass petty theft, but nothing too bad. Right now…
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The French have great city bikes. Not too many of them here. They use lot’s of uniquely (well, not for them) sized parts and are a bitch to work on here in the U.S. A shame. Here’s a typically beautiful mixte. I’ve never seen a three speed with a derailleur. It’s great, because three speeds…
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I rode the five-boro bike ride yesterday. 40-some miles and tens of thousands of bikes. This is the ride that the close off the streets for. That’s why I wanted to do it. You get to bike on the FDR and BQE (freeways), the upper level of the Queensboro Bridge, and over the Verrazano Bridge.…
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I could take back Central Park in one month. The problem is that there’s a 6-mile loop-road around the park… But cars zoom around it. It’s finally closed to cars a lot of the time. But not say, from 3 to 7 pm. As a result, I bike around Central Park a lot less than…
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Read all about the controversy at Brooklyn Industries and crazy anarchist anti-consumerist bike gangs (as opposed to all the consumerist anarchists running around with Puma balaclavas?). C.H.U.N.K. 666 is an intersting group, by the way. Tall bikes are cool, by the way. And bike jousting may be a gimmick, but it’s a damn good one.…
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Last day of the transit strike. It doesn’t really affect me too much, since I bike everywhere. But it’s kind of a pain when, say, you have to get your wife to the hospital. There wasn’t really any problem in Manhattan. There were plenty of cabs. But getting to and from the City was close…
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We had another lamb roast. The butcher, an older man whose parents are also from Northern Epirus, assured me that though he has sold many lambs, he has never had one carried away on a bike. A 70-pound lamb seems like a lot when you’re buying a lamb. But in truth, it’s not hard to…
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