Tag: Bikes
From the data enthusiast who brought you Brighton Beach’s penchant for massage therapy and the worst times for NY traffic (basically, all the times), here is I Quant NY‘s Ben Wellington preparing to try out a Citi Bike — in the safest way possible, utilizing the company’s system data and the city’s vehicle/bicycle collision information. I decided to crunch some numbers […]
Over the weekend, members of street safety group Right of Way commemorated pedestrians and bicyclists who had died from traffic collisions by putting up spray-painted stencils all around the city. The stencils were created by Robyn Hasty — a pair of wings surrounded by roses. Below the design, the group and families of victims added the name of the […]
Many major cities lack adequate bike lanes, with drivers who are hostile to cyclists. Team Industrial Mimicry at the Biomimicry Student Design Challenge created glowing, moveable “whiskers” that make your bike appear much bigger than it really is, forcing drivers to back the fuck off. The whiskers, known as the VibraSee, can also move to signal […]
We’ve griped before about the city government’s dogged refusal to funnel any public funding to Citi Bike, and now, City Hall wants a $1 million payout from the cash-strapped program. As the Wall Street Journal points out, the city’s contract with Alta Bicycle Share, the company that operates Citi Bike, stipulates a payment from Alta to […]
When you ride a bike in the city, a lock is a necessary evil. They’re bulky, heavy, and can never totally ensure your ride’s safety against a well-armed thief, but what are you going to do — not lock it up? SkyLock aims to make the bike-locking experience a little smoother. It connects to a […]
There’s no denying that Citi Bike is in some financial trouble, but a new report suggests that its future might be brighter than originally reported. The bike share program incurred much of its costs this year during Hurricane Sandy, when a major warehouse was flooded and equipment destroyed, and in expenses related to getting the […]
Jonas Ginter created the 360-degree panoramic video above with six GoPro cameras and a 3D-printed mount. Each camera shot a different angle, and Ginter stitched all six shots into the trippy spherical collage you see in the video. The result is surreal: the filmmaker appears to be cycling along on his own tiny private planet, rotating […]
This series of illustrations from Kurt McRobert catalogs the archetypal bike riders of NYC: there’s the Messenger, the Citibike, the Fixie Kid, and a slew of others. My favorite stereotype is the Journeyman, a “middle-aged cyclist with something to prove,” in spandex that’s color-coordinated with his $5,000 race road bike — aka the guy who’s […]
At first glance, the video below seems to show a thriving enterprise. Using Citi Bike’s openly available rider data, Jeff Ferzoco and Sarah Kaufman of NYU’s Rudin Center visualized two days in the life of the cash-strapped bike share program: over September 17 and 18 — two 60-degree, non-rainy days — we see 75,000 trips happening […]
Despite impressive first-year numbers and a ridership that’s unafraid of a little cold weather, Citi Bike needs cash. According to the Wall Street Journal, the bikeshare program is losing money, and leaders at the organization are hoping to raise tens of millions of dollars to rescue it. Part of the problem is that long-term Citi Bike passes […]
