Year: 2011

Biking in Astoria

Bon Voyage!

I’m heading out of the country, perhaps for a while. There might be some “biking in foreign lands” posts, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Keep biking and see you in 2012.

Plan your route: Ride the City

I’ve had a link to this site for a while. But still, very few people know about the wonderful “Ride the City” bicycle route planner. There has been and will remain a link to this site in the right column of this blog. It’s wonderful Le me mention a few other things: 1) Google maps…
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Bike Commuting 101

At the Queens Library on Broadway. Aug 8, 6:30PM. Saturday at 11AM at the library at 21-45 31st Street. Here’s the PDF flyer. Here’s my 101: Buy a bike with fenders and without quick release. Get a good lock or two. Bike. Everything else you can pick up as you go along.

Keeping Bike Lanes Free From Cars

As reported in the Guardian. I particularly like the sneaker-and-sun-glass wearing white-jacket-on-black-t-shirt gold-chain fashion sense of the rich-asshole guy who got his car crushed (yes, I know it was all staged). He looks awfully like the guys I see hanging around cafes here in Astoria.

A great idea

Pop-up cafes in parking spots. “But where will we store our cars for free, at the expense of all taxpayers?”

Cities and Bike Culture

About the Netherlands. From the NYT: But while many Americans see their cars as an extension of their individual freedom, to some of us owning a car is a burden, and in a city a double burden. I find the recrafting of the city in order to lessen — or eliminate — the need for…
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Thank you, Ray

He built the Queensplaza improvements. And the bike lane… in Queensplaza, the one that means we don’t have to bike the wrong way up Queensplaza North, is finally OPEN!

Biking across Central Park

If you want biking sympathy from non-bike riders, throw this fact at them: you can’t bike across Central Park. It always works. Most people are somewhat shocked. This state of affairs may be starting to change, according to the Times. I’d still like a way to bike through the park on the south side, since…
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I see England, I see France…

There are many why I like biking in Amsterdam: Cars give you right of way; pedestrians give you right of way; there are nice bike paths; distances are short; you’re considered normal; there are good, practical bikes; you casually meet friend biking in the other direction… Man the list goes on and on. But one…
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If only!

Bike lane added to Second Ave. Subway: Dana Muskowitz, spokesman for the Gotham Motorists Association, expressed bewilderment at the plan, stating “our city’s relentless promotion of a trivial hobby at the expense of drivers’ urgent needs has reached unacceptable heights. Seriously, is the Mayor in the pocket of the front-mounted basket industry?” Wolfson acknowledged that…
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