We recently rediscovered Bike Polo courtesy of Hardcourt Bike Polo. This sport is kind of like regular polo but played with bikes instead of horses! I remember seeing some kids playing on grass a few years ago, but the hard court version has come a long way. In bike polo, the front wheel of the [...]
Read more →Let’s talk about this issue that has been plaguing the streets of Brooklyn for sometime now…particularly the street of Kent Ave. in Williamsburg. The Hasidic community is complaining that they have nowhere to part their giant minivans because of the new installation. First they threatened to block the streets. Then they put this detour sign up stating ”bus drivers [...]
Read more →We know you are cheap. Let’s face it. You probably commute on a bicycle to save money. Yeah but we know how much your bike costs. We also know there are others things you will spend a lot of money on like messenger bags. We agree that this an item where you actually get what [...]
Read more →Yay! It has snowed here in the BK. Flights were canceled. Blomberg told us to go out and shop/eat. We didn’t listen. Instead we sat on our couch all day.”Working from home” is a beautiful thing. While on the couch watching PBS, we were pleasantly surprised when an episode of e2 highlighting Vélib – Paris’ [...]
Read more →You-Tube and the blogospehere have been abuzz with the latest video of “madlflux” playing guitar hero with a controller mounted on his bike. Shot from the riders point of view, he traverses the road filled with colored music notes appearing like they would on Guitar Hero. The video features The Living End’s “Prisoner of Society,” and [...]
Read more →We love to see organizations making the roads a safer place for cyclists. Smart Bike DC in collaboration with the Dept of Transportation is one such bike sharing operation. You can learn more about them from their four minute video on YouTube which is competing in YouTube’s Project Report contest. Check them out. Vote for them. [...]
Read more →I like many other cyclists have suffered multiple bike thefts in my years on the road. I’ve pretty much come to accept it as part of the deal – commuting in a big city. That is until I recently read about a lock that might give cyclists some peace of mind. Michael Lambourn‘ Smart Lock [...]
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