I haven’t been a bike in over a month. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been looking. First, the bad news. Zora and I just passed up a chance to join a bike ride from Greece to Turkey: “Greece-Turkey: 2 Peoples– One Nature.” I strongly suspect I will regret this. The perhaps once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to…
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Expect no updates till mid-July. Happy biking.
Sometimes biking is a crime. May 19, 2007Bus Kills Man on Bicycle After RobberyBy ANAHAD O’CONNOR and MATTHEW SWEENEYNew York Times A thief was killed by a city bus in the South Bronx yesterday as he fled across a busy intersection on a bicycle after stealing a gold chain from a jewelry store, the police…
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Maybe I need a pair.http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/fashion/17Physical.html
The city is my oyster. I met my book editor down in Union Square. My book, which has absolutely nothing to do with bicycles or Astoria, will be out soon enough. I’ll let you know. It was a nice ride there and back, even with the rain. Then, after a long story and a 3-hour…
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I never mentioned the unpleasant news that my friend, Damien, to whom I gave a sexy french frame, had a nasty crash a while back. Nasty like waking up in the hospital missing both memory and teeth. The inside of his head was fine (and no, he wasn’t wearing a helmet), but he looked like…
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Speaking of buying things for you bike, I’ve often heard: “I’m not getting that. That’s more than I paid for my bike!” Well, so what? Cheap bikes are great. But that doesn’t mean you can’t buy anything for that bike that costs more than you paid. I found my one-speed bike stumbling home from The…
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Yes. Thanks for asking. I purposefully don’t write much about bike components for two reasons: 1) talk about bike components makes most people less likely to ride bikes, and 2) I don’t care. I can’t even tell you what components I have on my own bikes. On my 10-speed, my derailleur works very well. I…
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I was biking back home on the Queensboro bridge and saw a man in bikers’ gear walking, holding the large thick kryptonite chain in one hand and two nice bike wheels in the other. I suppose he’ll learn the importance of locking the frame with his next bike. Poor guy.
Here’s the latest official NYC Bike Survey.Actually more interesting than I expected. But then again, I’m kind of into that sort of thing.
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