I was Toronto over the weekend. Kind of underwhelmed by the city, but it’s a bike friendly town. A lot of bikes. It’s pretty far North. But to be honest, not really much further North than Boston or Chicago. There are a fair number of bike paths. And bike racks everywhere! The same kind they…
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I was biking my slow bike under the tracks on 31st Street last Saturday night. I was rather enjoying the weekend congestion, life, and hustle-bustle of our dear neighborhood, Astoria. A car pulled up on my left and from the rear passenger-side seat, a woman, relatively attractive, started yelling at me. “Uh oh,” I’m thinking.…
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The normal problem with New York City roads is all the minor bumps and divots. But there are the occasional killer potholes. The kind that must be avoided because it will simply will eat up your bike. I was biking back home tonight just after midnight, cruising on 56th Street on a mild downhill at…
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I was up in Boston this past weekend to watch the Red Sox games in good company. I wouldn’t want to move back there, but that city was very very good to me. And though few people will admit it, Boston is a great biking city. First the downside: There’s always the risk of getting…
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Most of these pictures (and comments) are Jim’s. Peter on the celeste Bianchi. Despite taking pictures while riding, I didn’t bust my ass all day. It was perfect biking weather, low 70s and breezy. This was horrific. The guy on the ground has a bee in his ear. He was in agony. About 8 different…
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In other news, I just got three Kryptonite locks keyed alike in the mail today. Kryptonite has been having tough times since it was discovered that all their locks could be jimmied open with a round plastic Bic pen. Oops. Since then they’ve been busy replacing ALL their locks ever sold with round keys. Free…
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On September 20th, 2004, I was biking back from a Yankee game and wiped out on the Triborough Bridge I was pretty messed up. I haven’t been over the bridge since then. It’s not that I was avoiding it. I just don’t often need to go to Harlem or the South Bronx from Queens. Last…
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This is from a thread I started on Bike Forums. The end result is that my new shoes are much more comfortable for non-biking than my old bike shoes. When I first bought bike shoes and went with peddles you clip into, counterintuitive called “clipless peddles” (but it’s because they don’t use toe clips), I…
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Here’s what you need to bike in the rain (and this list is in order of importance):1) have fenders.2) don’t wear glasses.3) don’t wear a cotton t-shirt.4) wear a hat (or helmet with that little “visor” thingy).5) have rain gear.6) bike slower. Get fenders. I mean, hell, you can even bike with an umbrella. They…
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So much bike work, not enough biking. So around midnight I decided to enjoy my new moustache handlebars and bike around Central Park (one of the nice things about living in New York City, at least when the main loop road isn’t open to cars). Coming off the bridge, on 60th Street right around Madison…
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