Month: June 2005

Biking in Astoria

Keyed alike

In other news, I just got three Kryptonite locks keyed alike in the mail today. Kryptonite has been having tough times since it was discovered that all their locks could be jimmied open with a round plastic Bic pen. Oops. Since then they’ve been busy replacing ALL their locks ever sold with round keys. Free…
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Facing My Demons on the Triborough Bridge

On September 20th, 2004, I was biking back from a Yankee game and wiped out on the Triborough Bridge I was pretty messed up. I haven’t been over the bridge since then. It’s not that I was avoiding it. I just don’t often need to go to Harlem or the South Bronx from Queens. Last…
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These shoes ain’t made for walking

This is from a thread I started on Bike Forums. The end result is that my new shoes are much more comfortable for non-biking than my old bike shoes. When I first bought bike shoes and went with peddles you clip into, counterintuitive called “clipless peddles” (but it’s because they don’t use toe clips), I…
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Handlebar height and the fixed gear

I was biking on the Screamin’ Salmon, my fixed gear bike, and think I discovered the answer to the handlebar dilemma: why are lower handlebars more comfortable on my Bianchi and less comfortable on my fixed gear. The answer has less to do with the style of handlebars, as I mentioned previously, but the kind…
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Handlebar Height

I hate when I don’t practice what I preach. It’s even worse when I finally do, but then discover that I’ve been preaching to a false idol. I’ve been preaching about high handlebars for a long time. They’re many reasons you should raise your handlebars, but I won’t go into them here because I’m not…
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All weather biking (1): don’t wear cotton

Here’s what you need to bike in the rain (and this list is in order of importance):1) have fenders.2) don’t wear glasses.3) don’t wear a cotton t-shirt.4) wear a hat (or helmet with that little “visor” thingy).5) have rain gear.6) bike slower. Get fenders. I mean, hell, you can even bike with an umbrella. They…
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