Tag: Bikes
Sandy Cutrone was riding her bike on Montauk Highway last year when she was hit by a car and broke her shoulder. Cutrone went straight through a green light, and a driver going the opposite way turned left without yielding to incoming traffic. The impact was great enough to crack Cutrone’s helmet. In December, her […]
The FAB Velo, a DIY vehicle created by Mark Richardson, is an assemblage of the kind of stuff laying around in the basement of your parents’ house: razor scooters, walkers, old beach chairs, and the like. Put together, it looks a bit like a homemade Tron bike, with two wheels up front, one in back, […]
Good news for NYC cyclists: Governor Andrew Cuomo announced $67 million in funding will be allocated for bike- and pedestrian transportation projects across the state. $14.8 million of that haul is going to the five boroughs, with projects like the Pulaski Bridge dedicated bike/pedestrian lanes, Clinton Hill’s Putnam Plaza, and the Hell Gate Pathway project […]
Johnnyrandom’s “Bespoken” — a piece of electronic music created entirely out of sounds recorded from a bike — has been available on iTunes since November, but the composer just released a promotional video for it this week. In it, we see spokes bowed like violin strings, sprockets struck with mallets, and air compressed air used as […]
Definitive proof that New Yorkers’ weather resiliency wasn’t left behind sometime in the 1800s: despite lots of snow, slippery streets, and sub-zero windchill, over 3,000 Citi Bike trips have been taken in the less than 24 hours since snow started falling, NYC Bike Share marketing director Dani Simons tells ANIMAL. For comparison, over 10,000 trips […]
Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten‘s newest project focuses on the cultural and corporate wars between bikes and cars. The international doc focuses on commuters already relying on bicycles for their daily commute — like 40% of Copenhagen. The film investigates the world-wide automotive production business, tracking its evolution into a multi-billion dollar industry that relies on […]
Streetsblog points to “Cops in Bike Lanes,” a single serving Tumblr dedicated to documenting all the times that, yes, cops park in bike lanes in NYC. A lot of the photos are from Downtown Brooklyn–Hoyt and Schermerhorn Streets in particular make many appearances–but this is a problem that absolutely exists everywhere. Parking in the bike […]
According to Community Board 10 Chairwoman Henrietta Lyle, the first uptown Citi Bikes may be arriving in Harlem. Lyle told the board yesterday that two racks would be installed in the neighborhood: one at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 155th Street, the other at Lexington and 98th. Lyle questioned whether these were the ideal locations. “What about […]
Bike lanes: not a terrorist plot to cause traffic congestion and take away parking spaces from cop cars! The people of New York actually want them, according to a new survey from Transportation Alternatives. Crazy! In fact, 70% of respondents support bike lanes and pedestrian plazas, and believe it or not, it’s not just the two-wheeled […]
That sleek faux-track bike above is the “Svart,” by the Swedish company BikeID, exclusively sold at MoMA’s design stores. And despite a name that sounds like a parody of an IKEA product, or Swedish for “fart,” (it really means “black”), the thing looks pretty nice. They’ve gone with the always-badass flat black color scheme, drop […]
