Well if this isn’t the coolest thing ever! Ride the City. It’s not perfect, but it’s great. What makes it great is that it gives you both the direct route and the nicest route, with bike lanes. They call it “safest”; I’ll stick with nicest. Outstanding. And even when it’s wrong, it’s still useful. I…
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I noticed I was getting a few hits from BikeHacks. I had forgotten about this good blog. Read about every New York City bicyclists’ greatest fear: hitting a bear head on! Also good pictures from Japan and a cool little bike spotted on the NYC subway.
My bike died yesterday. Or maybe not. A few days ago I noticed a creaking sound when I pedaled, but it wasn’t coming from the pedals. It seemed to be caused by some motion when I was on the saddle, so I assumed the seat post had become dry and crusty — that makes bikes…
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I purposefully try not and post pictures of my bikes or talk about my latest bike ride. I hate blogs that do. Really, who the fuck cares about how fast you biked on what bike but you? But for educational reasons–people really do ask me more than you think about what city bike to buy–I’ll…
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Oh those sexy French frames. There’s a good story in the Times about the Paris bike program… perhaps coming to a corner near you. I was in Lyon a few years ago and was impressed with the system. At least as impressed as I could be without actually riding one of their bikes. I wrote…
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But only after you’ve bought mine. The Ride is an outstanding new bike-related journal/magazine out of London. And yes, I say that because I have an article in it. But so does Greg LeMond (and about 40 other writers). Outside of actually riding a bike, this may be the only time Greg LeMond and I…
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Change on Broadway! It’s amazing what they can do when they have the will! They’re taking out 2 lanes of traffic from 42nd to 34th Streets in Manhattan. Bike lanes are part of the plan. Read the story here. I love Janette Sadik-Khan and the fact that “The work… has begun without a formal public…
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I saw a man with four kids on his bike today here in Amsterdam. Three in the front cargo space of his bakfiets. One in a backpack-like kid carrier. I wanted to get a picture, but he was biking too fast.
In the New York Times
So I’m in Amsterdam again. On day five, I saw my first fixed gear bike. It wasn’t like I was missing them or looking for them. I just find it interesting, one in five days. Meanwhile there are now hundreds of bakfietsen. In some ways, symbolically, a new bakfiets here is kind of like an…
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