Brooklyn by Bike

The beautifully designed Bikestation, a facility that provides secure bike parking, changing rooms, lockers, bike rental, bike repair and retail sales has opened in Washington DC.

It will be staffed 66 hours per week and available to members 24/7. The Bikestation location at Union Station allows commuters to take public transportation to the station, pick up their bicycles and go to work, shopping or entertainment. [via Bikestation]

[pic via Copenhaganize]

NYC sure could use an equally stunning facility like this!

Charikicki is a photo blog that chronicles beautiful shots of women on bikes. Most of the photos are taken in Japan and give us a greater glimpse into their bike culture.

Check out this indoor bike parking facility.

[via Charikicki]

Here’s to NYC catching up with bike parking and traffic laws. On March 4, 2009, the City Planning Commission approved the Bike Zoning for Bike Parking proposal. Soon we’ll have those indoor parking photos as well!

Thanks to Quinn for pointing me to the photo blog.

Oh, hey! Did you hear? We are biking to Floyd Bennett field this Sat 4/18 @ 11am. Join us!

We couldn’t be in DC but the fanfare was felt around the world as President Obama (we get to call him that now!) delivered his inaugural address.

Here is a beautiful shot by Jesse Chan-Norris of the DC bike valet. Can we say success!? Thanks to all the valet volunteers out there. You are appreciated. Check out WABA’s Flickr stream for more action.

Those of use who stayed in NYC were lucky enough to have our own bike parade courtesy of Times UP. We’ll get those photos up as soon as we spot them.

We would have killed to see someone rocking this art piece, but it was just on display at Manifest the Hope as far as we know.

[via joellet on Flickr]

With all this new found hope, we can only hope to see Obama rockin his bike and some bike friendly policies more often – to you Mr. President.

[via Copenhagen Cycle Chic]

[via HuffPost]

“Automated bike parking system accepts your bike and sends it into the 7th dimension. Returns it to our world at your command.” [via BoingBoing]

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