Check out the NYPD’s parade permit, now needed to assemble groups on bikes. Believe it or not, I still have faith that the courts will rule this in mad-crazy violation of, well, the First Amendment. I’ll be really scared when it turns out I’m wrong. I like the bizarro permit from Why I ride much…
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New Orleans was great. Still very fucked-up, mind you. But a wonderful city. Good biking. Great food. An easy city to strike up a conversation with strangers. I was charmed. Too bad the city was destroyed and nobody seems to care. It’s two years later, for Christ’s sake, and it looks like the storm hit…
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I’m back, with stories and pictures… In a few days. I’m getting a new computer as my old one is telling me in no uncertain terms that it’s tired of life. Meanwhile read what Zora says: New Orleans is a fabulous place to ride a bike. The fact that I’m mentioning this before the food…
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I’m off to New Orleans for a wedding. We got a heads-up about a place to rent bikes. So we should be tooling around in style. I’ll be the one wearing a green top hat, if I can find one. For a little preview on biking in the city, see Dan Baum’s excellent New Yorker…
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Who would have thought there was as Astoria Beach Bike? And from the top quality bike maker in the world: Huffy. I’ll just find me a beach around here and be all set.
Good stuff, as usual, on Bike Blog. See the story on Fixed Gears’ legality, in particular. And there’s an interesting academic article in the premier issue of Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture and Action. “‘Outlaw’ Bicycling,” by Chris Carlsson.
It’s really not such a big deal. I barely left the house in January, as I was writing. But now that I’ve got to go to school and it’s cold out, let me put in my two cents for biking in the cold. To repeat: it’s not such a big deal. Most “normal” people think…
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From today’s BBC, another great bike carry:
I was in London very briefly this week to meet my brother. London isn’t my favorite city. I’ve always thought I should like it more. I love big cities. And they speak English. And very nicely. But the food sucks. The women are kinda ugly on average. And the weather sucks. (I flew Air India……
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