Recent Posts in Bike Trends Category
Posted on Dec 9, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The Bloomberg administration has aggressively expanded New York City's bicycle infrastructure, creating hundreds of miles of bicycle lanes and encouraging residents to try out the cleaner, often ...
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Posted on Nov 30, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM James Estrin/The New York TimesSafety-warning poems / sprouting from city sign poles / look for one near you. Look! It's a street sign with a haiku underneath. They are new, ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
What happens to a bicycle when it gains an electric motor? Is it still a bicycle? Is it a scooter? Or is a different beast entirely, a patched-together monstrosity with no place on the road? The legal ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Charles Astor, 4, amid the new traffic barrels set up in Prospect Park. Collisions have left two pedestrians badly injured. By J. DAVID GOODMAN On a stretch of Prospect Park 's main drive, bright ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A Room of Their Own for 2-Wheeled Commuters Dave Sanders for The New York Times Jordan Mokriski in the bike storage room of the Starrett-Lehigh Building, where he works. The room holds about 150 ...
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Posted on Nov 14, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Salvaging Abandoned Bikes, Making Room for Others CRAMPED AREAS Bicycle rooms have become a lure for many apartment hunters in the city, but many bikes are left behind in them, often for years. By J. ...
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Posted on Nov 14, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The Pedestrian Loses the Way By CHRISTOPHER GRAY Published: November 10, 2011 IN the future, perhaps our time will be known as the first decade of the Bicycle Wars, with righteous armies fighting over ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Pleasures of Life in the Slow Lane By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Published: November 7, 2011 New Yorkers should love bicycling. We're control freaks. We want to get from here to there in a New York minute and ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The Surprising Psychology of Driver Interaction With Cyclists by Angie Schmitt on October 26, 2011 Pop quiz. Do you wear a helmet when you ride? Spandex or normal clothes? Are you female or male? ...
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Posted on Oct 19, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By Joe Coscarelli Mon., Feb. 28 2011 at 2:34 PM This afternoon, Gothamist points us to a proposal by assemblyman Michael DenDekker, a Democrat from Queens, which would require by law that every ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Here's a fun thing to ponder: Can you install a bike rack outside your house and then claim it as yours and yours alone? It comes up because that appears to be what one intrepid East Villager has gone ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
It's a great time to be a bike advocate-so go ahead and party like it's 1899. By Bob Mionske Fifty years ago, there was no national bicycling advocacy organization. This hadn't always been the case. ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A critical Mass goes horribly wrong with multiple people injured in bike accident . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDrX-kvppiE&feature=player_detailpage
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Posted on Oct 4, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Full-Sized Electric Scooter Legal in Bike Lanes FlyKly, is a rechargeable electric motorbike with vestigial pedals. Because it can reach just 20mph and has a motor of less than 750W, it qualifies ...
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Posted on Oct 4, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Just when we thought we heard all there is to hear about the dangers involved in texting and driving, now we need to warn rider about texting and biking. It may take superb balance to pull off, but ...
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Posted on Sep 29, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Fixed gear bikes that have become popular in New York neighborhoods and fashion forward accessory in Brooklyn, LIC and as far west as San Fransisco are now heading overseas and are being found in ...
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