It’s been awhile since I mentioned Fast Boy, a local NYC bike builder on the blog. For those of you that have seen my wooden fenders, he made them and I almost love them more than my Surly. Fast Boy bicycles are some of the most beautiful handcrafted bikes. They are a throwback to another century but [...]
Read more →Hey #bikenyc and worldly readers! Hurricane Irene is forecasted to touch down here in New York City this weekend but I’m not so worried since my house has been deemed a “safe zone.” Hurricane party here on Sunday! For the rest of you huddled up in your houses, I hope you are safe. To make things a little fun this weekend [...]
Read more →I recently wrote about my flat tire woes and turns out my bike was seriously overdue for new tires. I had been running my stock Ritchey SpeedMax Cross for about 2.5 years with continuous commuter use. I knew I wanted to replace them with some flat proof, bomb proof, whatever you want to call them proof tires [...]
Read more →Last week I joined Jeff Orlick for what was to be a 5 boro pizza bike tour. I showed up to our meeting point (under the ATE of the Staten Island Ferry, clever!) thinking we were going on a little ride through Staten Island. I was totally unprepared but that’s what added to the fun of the [...]
Read more →A couple weeks ago I got my first flat tire of the season. I had an experience with a car flat where I re-inflated the tire and it was fine so I thought to do the same on my bike. After re-inflating my bike tire I rode into the city and back with no problems. [...]
Read more →I like design, type and bicycles so I really like this bicycle typogram illustrating the differnt parts of a bicycle. Great artwork from Aaron Kuehn!
Read more →Here’s a cool idea to give a heads up to automobile owners who are driving recklessly. It reminds me of the “I parked in a bike lane” stickers but much less permanent. “Subversive intervention via business card-sized magnets, personal edition of 200.” via Peter Miller
Read more →Just saw this post on Swissmiss and found it to be stunning! Joseph Griffiths creates a bicycle drawing machine.
I could spend hours on this thing.
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