The New York Times reported on Thursday that the number of cyclists in the New York City has grown by 35% since 1984. A study conducted by the Department of Transportation takes a count once a year, during the middle of the week for a 12-hour period, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. However, they’ve...
Read more →What happens to beautiful old bikes that no longer have ridable use? Andy Greg turns them into furniture! We over here at Brooklyn By Bike love ideas that help make the environment a better place and Andy Greg has been designing bike furniture in Michigan since 1990. Need a new table, chair, barstool or...
Read more →Alright let’s face it. Many of the kids on bikes today do not wear helmets. I’m not just taking about school kids, but it’s also the athletes training in Prospect Park and the kids on fixed...
Read more →Rather than head over to the regular Halloween Parade in Chelsea this year or in case you missed the doggie parade in Tompkins Square (which I did:(, hop on your bike and head over to… 8:45pm Brooklyn’s First Halloween Bike Ride Friday, Oct 31st Meet at the Brooklyn Side of Williamsburg Bridge bike path...
Read more →Nasty weather was no mater for the kids from Williamsburg. The 6th Annual Brooklyn Bike Kill which may actually stand for drunken, dirty, debauchery took place this past weekend. We hope they hosed down the street afterward. This boot bike is by far my favorite . No photos of bike gangs with helmets?...
Read more →When reading Streetsy’s post “40 Artists You Should Know Besides Banksy,” we found a lonely image at the bottom by bike. It got me thinking about biking as art in itself. Three things come to mind when I think of the intersection of biking and art. The first being that of the bike itself,...
Read more →A few weeks back I was surfing Flickr for work and I stumbled upon this messenger bag. In one of the comments, I was driven to www.zerpergallon.com which explained the idea behind the patch seen here. Zero Per Gallon is a site run by “jonny5waldman” whose inspiration behind his idea came in 2005 when...
Read more →Welcome to the beginning of something new and exciting (at least in my mind anyways). I have little and big plans for this site which you can learn more from the about tab. For now I leave you with the two bikes that came up in my google image search. Wtf?