Tag: Bikes
Those who are looking forward to the launch of New York’s bike share program finally have a date to start counting down to. Though the Department of Transportation is only officially saying the program will begin sometime this month, a source within the Citi Bike organization told Crain’s it will launch Memorial Day weekend, about two and […]
Joe Lhota would like you to get off his lawn, please. At a candidates forum this week, the Republican mayoral candidate and former MTA chair and Giuliani lieutenant governor took a host of positions at stark odds with the city’s quickly growing demographic of meddling kids. Enjoy living in a converted warehouse space in East […]
With Citi Bike‘s launch right around the corner, there’s sure to be a slew of people on two wheels in the city for the first time this summer. If you’re one of them, take a look at the latest installment of the city’s annual map of bike lanes around the five boroughs. Paper maps will […]
Getting a bike lane across the Verrazano Bridge is just as likely as it was last October, when activists publicly advocated for its construction–that is to say, it almost certainly isn’t going to happen. But that isn’t stopping cycling diehards from continuing to push, as evidenced by a nearly 1,000-signature petition to Andrew Cuomo that has […]
The Red Hook Criterium began in 2008 as an illegal race, with a few dozen fixed-gear cyclists racing through the titular waterfront Brooklyn neighborhood to celebrate a friend’s 26th birthday. Five years later, the race has gone legit, evolving into a full-scale spectacle and drawing sponsorshop from Rockstar Games while keeping its original outlaw spirit intact. Thousands […]
Brooklyn-based technologist Matt Richardson created this badass dynamic bike headlight, which detects the speed at which you’re riding and projects it onto the street in front of you. In the above video, Richardson explains how he made the device, whipping it together using a speed sensor mounted on the front wheel, a single-board computer called […]
Spanish creative agency Lola Madrid would like to make the most ecologically friendly bike possible, and to do so, they’ve turned to an unlikely source: cars. In the above video, a frame is fashioned from recycled metal, turn signals become reflective lights, a transmission belt becomes a chain, and upholstery gets turned into seat and […]
The New York Post, sadly reports that police issued less tickets to “rogue cyclists” in 2012 compared to 2011, even though more and more people are riding bikes: The number of rogue cyclists ticketed for traffic infractions in 2012 dropped by nearly 20 percent from the year before, despite growing numbers of bicycle riders on […]
“It turns out that, while a folding wheel is useful for cyclists, it can actually be life changing for wheelchair users,” says Vitamins Design’s Adam Westaway of his company’s brand new fold-up wheel. “There are so many problems associated with storing and transporting wheelchairs, and the biggest problem is the wheel size.” Westaway and the […]
In three years, Beijing will have 6 million cars on the road. Pollution levels some days already reach what the New York Times has called in highly technical terms, “crazy bad.” Beijing-based artist Matt Hope has used some basic mechanical engineering skills and a number of recycled materials — an old fighter pilot mask and […]
