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May 2, 2012
EASY RIDERS
It's time to dust off that bike
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February 1, 2012
Love Your Lane Valentine's Ride & After Party
It's time to dust off that bike
Blogs
January 19, 2012
Manhattan Has the Most Hipsters, According to Not Very Scientific Survey
According to an important statistical analysis of New York City's hipster makeup, you may be incorrect if you've held to the common perception that Brooklyn is New York's hipster-est borough. In fact, the survey suggests that there may be significantly more hipsters in...Manhattan. WTF, survey?
Voice Choices
November 9, 2011
SPEED DEMONS
How fast can you shop at four grocery stores?
Blogs
October 5, 2011
Ken Jackson, Columbia University Professor, Teaches NYC History on All-Night Bike Ride
For 37 years, Columbia University historian Ken Jackson has taught a session of his class, "The History of the City of New York," in an unforgettable fashion -- namely, on an all-night bike ride, which comes with the special added benefit of ensuring that none of the students fall asleep while being ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Cyclists Injure 500 People Yearly in New York City; Cars Injure 70,000
viaAccording to a new study from two Hunter College professors, approximately 1,000 pedestrians are hit by cyclists and sustain injuries severe enough for hospitalization yearly in New York state. About half of those -- 500 -- are in New York City. In reporting these stats, CBS mentions the c ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2011
Semi-Nude Cyclists Finally Ride the Streets of NYC for World Naked Bike Ride
Here's footage from the hotly anticipated World Naked Bike Ride, which finally happened this Sunday. "As soon as the cops split the shorts came off," reports WNBR NYC. Seems like a ready-made tagline for next year's event. There was apparently a significant police presence limiting nudity this year: ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2011
Marcia Kramer, Local Reporter: Terrorists Could Use Manhattan Bike Lanes
"A Second Avenue bike lane is next to the Israeli Consulate," notes CBS 2 reporter Marcia Kramer in a sensational report last night on extensions to Manhattan bike lanes. "Imagine if the man on the bike was a terrorist." Just in case you thought this city was getting more sane about the ongoing tra ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
NYPD Patrol Car Cruises Williamsburg Bridge Bike Lane
In the ongoing debate over bike lanes -- and who's either blocking them to cyclists or not using them properly as cyclists -- comes this video of a NYPD patrol car driving slowly and apparently leisurely along the Williamsburg Bridge bike path, which is ostensibly only for people who are either ridi ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Naked Bike Ride Postponed
viaIn some more clothing and bike-related news, the World Naked Bike Ride was postponed Saturday due to inclement weather. "We weren't going to get the turnout we were hoping for," volunteer organizer Joe Sharkey told us. "The weather was looking pretty bad."
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June 9, 2011
Naked Bike Riders Will Fill the Streets of NYC This Saturday
viaMore nudity news you can use: The 2011 World Naked Bike Ride is on Saturday. This has always seemed rather uncomfortable (banana seat?) but it is for a good cause, that is, protesting harmful environmental effects from cars and oil dependencies and promoting alternative transportation. It' ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Hopstop: Now Helping You Count Calories, Ride Your Bike
Hooray for Hopstop, the go-to spot for finding out how to get to wherever you want to go in the New York City area, and elsewhere, too. Just the other day we were calculating how to get to a wedding in Brooklyn (thank you, God, for weddings in Brooklyn) and all of a sudden, after which trains ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Most New Yorkers Like Bike Lanes, But Does Anyone Use Them?
Despite some very bitter and ugly public battles, a majority of New Yorkers approve of bike lanes, according to a poll released this week. The Quinnipiac University poll found that 56 percent of city voters say bike lanes "are good because it's greener and healthier for people to ride." The b ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
NYPD Now Giving Tickets For Biking on the Wrong Part of the Street
Photo by Alex GoldmarkA blogger for Transportation Nation witnessed two cyclists being pulled over and ticketed in Manhattan for biking not on the sidewalk, but on the street -- just not in the available bike lane. According to the Department of Transportation, "you have the right to ride in ... More >>
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January 24, 2011
NYPD Hits Bike Riders With 1,400 Tickets in Two Weeks
The first two weeks of the year saw the New York Police Department crack down on wild bike riders, delivering "an all-time high" amount of tickets for offenses like "going the wrong way, running lights, making illegal turns and riding on the sidewalk," according to a report in today's New Yor ... More >>
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January 24, 2011
Prospect Park Still Doesn't Want Your Damn Bike Lanes
Brooklyn Downtown StarListen, Prospect Park. The generous, benevolent Department of Transportation has bestowed upon you a big, green bike lane to keep you safe from all of those scary, lycra-clad cyclists. Big Brother (i.e., the city) says it keeps your babies safe and your Subarus dent-free, so ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Bike Wars: Angry Fascist Motorists Strike Back
Discord is brewing in the streets of New York. Or so the New York Times would have you believe, with its piece today on the latest urban conflict that plagues the people of our fair city: bike lanes. Last week, cyclists on Staten Island were mourning the loss of a local bike lane, which they ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Staten Islanders Want Their Bike Lanes Back
Cyclists on Staten Island are getting worked up over a decision by the city Department of Transportation to strip away the bike lanes along Capodanno Boulevard in favor of a bus lane and a parking and turning lane. City officials, including a city councilman, the transportation commissioner, ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
My Foolproof Rules For Bicycle Safety
And I oughta know! *Main thing: Be aware of parked cars flinging their doors open. If you get hit, you will be propelled into traffic and die. This is not advisable. *Also be aware of the traffic itself. Try to ride halfway between the parked cars and the oncoming trucks and you'll probab ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
How to Use a Bike Lane and Not Be an Utter and Complete Shithead: A Handy Primer
The Village Voice: Not blocking the bike lane.Oh, bike lanes. They are complex. It's so hard to know, for instance, where they stop and start, and how to actually use them. New Yorkers are accustomed to things being difficult, and maybe these new bike lanes are just so easy that our giant bra ... More >>
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September 7, 2010
East Village's 16 Handles Commandeers a Public Amenity for Its Private Usage
16 Handles' trash can is padlocked to one of the rare bike racks, displacing bike parking spots. Bike riders know that, even though the city is now veined with bike lanes, encouraging an increase in the volume of pedal-driven traffic, the number of bike parking spots in the city has actually ... More >>
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August 9, 2010
Biking While Drunk Is Not Illegal, Just a Really Bad Idea
We've often wondered whether you could get a DUI for biking under the influence -- or a BUI, as it were -- in New York City. Thankfully, J. David Goodman at the New York Times City Room blog tackles this very question. And the final word is: biking under the influence is not explicitly illega ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
New East Village Bike Lanes: Good for Bikers, Bad for Business
The new bike lanes on First and Second Avenue that run from Houston to 34th Street are positioned between the sidewalk and a line of parked cars to protect bikers -- which means delivery trucks can no longer double park right next to businesses, causing new frustrations to downtown business o ... More >>
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April 27, 2010
Cycling Advocates Say Not So Fast with the Cycling Stats
Recent reports stating that bike ridership has reached 200,000-plus daily cyclists in New York City (more than any other U.S. city) have now come under fire. Cycling advocates are protesting that biking is not nearly as popular as all that -- yet.
Blogs
March 25, 2010
Is the Brooklyn-Bred "Purist" Bike Culture Officially "Over" Now?
The intensely devoted single-speed and fixed-gear bike culture of Williamsburg has long been a source of fascination for people unbearably attracted to fashionably scruffy, trim, roguish-looking people, as well as the rest of the people who ride bikes in New York, and of course, exploitative ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2010
Critical Mass Has to Have a Permit for Big Bike Rides, Says Judge
In 2007 NYPD, fed up with the big, rowdy Critical Mass bike events, made up a new parade regulation requiring all bicycle gatherings of 50 or more to get a permit. (Critical Mass usually involves hundreds of bikes.) The Five Borough Bike Club filed suit, claiming the arbitrary reg violated cy ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
Transportation Alternatives Denounces Tomorrow's Naked Bedford Bike Ride
Everyone, even if they don't care about bike lanes, seems to be looking forward to the naked bike ride scheduled for Saturday. The spectacle is meant to draw attention to the bikers' plight in Williamsburg, where the city scrubbed the Bedford Avenue bike lake, leading to a guerrilla hipste ... More >>
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August 7, 2009
TransAlt Celebrates New DUMBO Bike Path Where Member Cracked Up
In 2005 Transportation Alternatives' Noah Budnick hit a pothole on Sands Street in DUMBO and cracked up badly. So he and the rest of TransAlt are especially happy to see the Sands Street bike path completed, affording bikers coming on and off the Manhattan Bridge, or just tooling around the n ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2009
Lawyer Says Bike Lock Beatdown is a Crime
A You Tube vid of a young Lower East Side cyclist -- some have theorized he's a bike messenger -- delivering a brutal beatdown to a pedestrian outside the public restrooms on Allen and Delancey made the rounds on web sites and blogs last week: The vid shows the two travelers coming into conflic ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2009
Staten Islanders Displeased with Bike Lanes
People complain about bike lanes elsewhere in the city, too, but Staten Island seems to have more trouble with them than most. The Staten Island Advance tells us that new bike lanes are planned for the borough even as "half of the paint forming the Bay Street [bike] route has worn away" because of t ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2009
Bike Propaganda Contest Offer $4,000 Prize, Film Fest
The drive by responsible cycling advocates to get us all to stop at stop lights, wear helmets, and generally bike like Urkel has reached the propaganda phase. Transportation Alternatives has launched a Biking Rules Public Service Announcement and Photo Competition. Make and submit videos and photos ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2009
Bloomberg to Bikers: Screw You!
With all the pale green bike lanes going in across town, you might think we have a bicycle-friendly mayor. Nothing could be further from the truth. The bike lanes are really his method of hectoring motorists by eliminating car-traffic lanes--as are the pedestrian malls at Times Square and Heral ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2009
Cycling Study, Bike Rules Website Hasten the End of the Urban Outlaw Biker
Where's your helmet, buddy? They're after us cyclists again! The recent crackdown on biker traffic violations in Brooklyn was just the thin end of the wedge: now Hunter College has released a study of midtown Manhattan bicyclist behavior, showing -- brace yourself -- that bikers are lax about fol ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 4, 2009
Valentine's Day Love Your Lane Ride + After-Party
Where's your helmet, buddy? They're after us cyclists again! The recent crackdown on biker traffic violations in Brooklyn was just the thin end of the wedge: now Hunter College has released a study of midtown Manhattan bicyclist behavior, showing -- brace yourself -- that bikers are lax about fol ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 19, 2008
DEAD PREZ RIDE
Before you pig out, feed the brain
Blogs
July 10, 2008
What Does it Take To Turn NYC Bike Friendly?
Before you pig out, feed the brain
Blogs
June 18, 2008
Design Competition Seeks to Make Red Hook Bike-Friendly
Before you pig out, feed the brain
Blogs
June 17, 2008
Who's Sabotaging Bikers on the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges?
Before you pig out, feed the brain
Blogs
July 5, 2007
Dead Fuckin' Last in the Alleycat
Before you pig out, feed the brain
Blogs
May 11, 2007
NY [heart] Critical Mass?
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Blogs
March 28, 2007
New Standoff Over Critical Mass as Another Bike Group Sues to Block Parade Regs
Before you pig out, feed the brain
Music
August 22, 2006
Belles on Wheels
The Ditty Bops bike tour finally ends, 4,500 jittery and often moonlit miles later
Blogs
January 9, 2006
Ghost Riders: 21 Cyclists Killed Last Year in NYC
The Ditty Bops bike tour finally ends, 4,500 jittery and often moonlit miles later
Blogs
December 20, 2005
Transit Strike Is a Bike Rider's Dream
The Ditty Bops bike tour finally ends, 4,500 jittery and often moonlit miles later
NYC Life
December 20, 2005
Schlepping to a New You
At least the strike makes New York skinny
News
August 23, 2005
Riding to the Rescue
Sympathetic European cycling activists jump into critical mess to say, 'Free NYC cyclists'
Blogs
May 13, 2005
Morning Report 5/13/05
Rider On the Storm
Sympathetic European cycling activists jump into critical mess to say, 'Free NYC cyclists'
News
May 8, 2001
Take a Bike!
Ditch the Subway. Keep the Cab Fare. Miss the Bus. Try a Two-Wheeled Commute for a Change.
News
May 8, 2001
Get Rolling!
A Bike Week Calendar
News
July 20, 1999
Scare Yourself Shiftless
In a 24-Hour mountain bike race, life begins at 4 a.m.
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