Seeing this reminds me of old pictures and stories from the Italian Partisan Resistance. Did you know that the Italian Fascist regime tried to ban cycling to undermine the partisans' fight (but it never really could enforce it)?
Bikes are such a great invention.
CarBrain™ people that think they're doing me a favour by offering to pick me up are so annoying. They can't understand that I actually prefer to ride my bike, and that it's often quicker because I don't have to spend time finding a park
“V2X connects vehicles to everything, though, this #technology can do much more than just protect #drivers. Like a #digital seatbelt for the 21st century, V2X-enabled #bikes can provide critical protection for their riders by prompting V2X #cars to display a warning right in front of the driver when a #cyclist is about to cross their path”
“anonymized #data can be shared with #cities to help plan new #bike and #pedestrian#infrastructure”
The Glasgow Transport Museum's Infinite Velodrome. This is a metal Möbius Strip hanging from the ceiling of Zaha Hadid's magnificent Riverside Museum building displaying all sorts of bicycles from different eras of cycling.
Love seeing a 7 minutes long video from @BicycleDutch on a big, non-urbanist subreddit! With thousands of upvote, and just tons of positivity in the comments!
My current take: internal cable routing on bikes (and especially thru-headset routing) is stupid and worse. The aero benefits are stupid (unless, maybe, you’re racing- but if you’re fast enough to benefit you’re going to have a tech to deal with it for you). The maintenance is stupid. The routing makes shifting and breaking worse, and the “aesthetics” seem overblown.
I won’t buy a bike with through-headset routing, and I’d think hard before buying one with fully internal routing. #BikeTooter
I'll be the curmudgeon here, but in my opinion about 90% of bike trends in the last 15-20 years have been nonsense to sell more and fix what wasn't broken.
I posted a video a while back where all these small bike builders were saying the same thing.
I don't ride road bikes, and to be fair MTB has always been super trendy. But in the past it seemed like they were trying to figure things out, whereas now they're just trying to make people buy new stuff.
Q5. I have a weird mental block on bike maintenance. I went to an eng. school, am a Mechanical major, but don't want to fix my bike. I was curious about the bike group in college, but heard it was bro-y, a bit condescending, so couldn't get myself to check it out. So...I just haven't, and I think my reluctance is still tied to that "rumor". How did you start doing your own maintenance? (If you usually don't, how much are you okay with doing yourself?)
A5: I've always done all my own bike maintenance. When I got back into it after a break a couple of years ago that was the thing I dreaded, I didn't want to do it. But really, it's not that big of a deal.
Like most things, it seems like more of a pain in the ass to take to it someone to work on than to just do it myself.
This Ghost Bike is in memory of Jason MacIntyre, champion time trial cyclist, who was killed here when he was out on a training ride, on January 15th, 2008.
The Ghost Bikes website lists the locations of other Ghost Bikes around the world. Each Ghost Bike is a solemn memorial to a cyclist killed on the roads.
Every time I try to plan a route on bike out of my neighborhood via Google Maps, it routes me the longest way out of the neighborhood, up a very long hill, that is the least direct path possible. It adds 50% more travel time.
Big news for Londoners: even more Santander e-bikes, and a day pass to make access easier. It's all starting on Sunday March 3rd.
I cannot emphasize how much of a game-changer these e-bikes are for transport in London. Give them a go - I can pretty much promise you'll never look back.