Tag: Bikes
ANIMAL loves bikes. ANIMAL loves film. New York’s edition of Bicycle Film Festival 2013 kicks off June 26th, so get excited. Since 2001, BFF has grown into a huge celebration of all styles of bikes and cycling, with sold-out film screenings and events around the world. Ah, it’s going be fun: Bikes Rock, Joy Ride Art […]
In an apparent effort to defend itself after Dorothy Rabinowitz’s insane comments about the “all-powerful bike lobby” and the “totalitarians” running the New York City government, the Wall Street Journal published a follow-up video addressing the backlash today. Titled “Yes, There Really Is a Bike Lobby,” the clip features Alex Kazam–a WSJ intern, as far […]
In the three weeks since it launched, Citi Bike has logged 250,000 rides that total almost 700,000 miles. Yay! But is bike share a thinly veiled totalitarian scheme to overthrow the spirit of democracy in NYC? Stay tuned! Casey Neistat, a filmmaker and well-known member of New York’s All-Powerful Bike Lobby, set out to answer […]
We didn’t actually go to cover the latest installment of the Red Hook Crit like we did last time, but by all accounts, the thing was pretty gnarly. There were lots of crashes. Only five people finished (as opposed to 28 at the last race). There’s an unconfirmed report of a guy who crashed in […]
Absorb the cycling know-how of an entire city with this crowdsourced map from the New York Times, which allows anyone to add ten words of wisdom to any location in the five boroughs. A few choice cuts –Maris from Park Slope says Clinton St. is a better route to the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges than Smith, Erich […]
The anticipated dread of getting a flat tire can surely spoil an otherwise enjoyable bike ride. Thankfully, there’s a new service pioneered by cyclist Shimon Kivman. Express Biker is, essentially, a vending machine made with bike riders in mind, providing items gearing toward the daily needs of rider — from tubes to lights to patch kits and […]
File this one under “things I’m glad exist even though I’ll never actually use them myself.” Monkey Light, currently funding on Kickstarter, is a series of LED lights that attach to your bike’s wheels, displaying full-color animations when you ride between 10 and 40 miles per hour. Take a look below: Not exactly sure what […]
When Casey Neistat’s bike was stolen, he decided to take action. The New York City filmmaker lost his ride after locking it up through the stem rather than the frame due to a lack of good spots on his block. As Neistat himself explains in the video above, “what this means is that any enterprising […]
After coming across this video of a group of Hasidic men intimidating cyclist Rafael Huerta, we reached out to Huerta to ask for his perspective on the incident. He explained that he records all of his bike rides, Russian dashcam-style, for protection in the even of an incident like this one, and that it was […]
Here’s a firsthand example of the kind of vigilante “justice” Hasidic Jews have long enforced on cyclists in Williamsburg and other areas in which they live. Rafael Huerta was riding his bike home when a Jewish man accused him of slamming into the man’s car, though it’s unclear in the video whether contact was actually made. It looks […]
