Nobody should have a wet ass from biking. Ever. The bike seat on the bike I leave outside got ripped from sun and use and old age and started absorbing water. I would get a wet butt after it rained. Not acceptable. So I went to my bike store and bought another seat (and it…
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Astoria Bike is on vacation for January. Happy Biking!
From the Gothamist. Saturday.
I didn’t know that was an option.
Bike vigilantes are repainting bike lanes in Williamsburg. Somebody has got to do it. The Post reports: Cyclists … made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex.…A source close to Mayor Bloomberg said removing the lanes was an effort to appease the Hasidic…
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That headline is as rare as “man bites dog”! Of course it took the driver, Christopher Thomas Thompson, a medical doctor, to tell police that he wanted to “teach them a lesson.” And it wasn’t the first time he tried to kill bicyclists. His M.O. is to pass the bikes–who were, in this case, actually…
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Trains in the UK, at least some of them, are very bike friendly. Inside the door are little bike stalls, like the train car is a bike stable!
I don’t know what was sadder: me locking my bike with a flat tire and having to pay for a car to get me to work on time or seeing this, a cut chain where a bike used to be:
Bike lane removal in Hasidic Williamsburg! Shame! This city belongs to everybody! And Bedford Ave is an essential part of what a limited bike network we have. I encourage all women to drive through these streets in the tighten, most revealing outfits they have. Update: But… if this were a trade for a dedicated two-way…
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My friend in Pittsburgh sends me this: He put a bumper on his bike so that he could “take up as much room as a car.” He’s a bit odd — aren’t we all?
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