Additional to yesterday’s submit, not solely is Brooklyn supposedly the most effective giant metropolis in America for the driving of bikes (despite the fact that it’s NOT A CITY), however New York Metropolis’s bicycle parking program goes to “revolutionize city biking throughout North America:”
Certainly, it’s a “potential turning level,” and smuggies now even evaluating New York to Europe, their platonic preferrred of completely all the things:
New York’s upcoming bike parking community isn’t simply excellent news for locals—it’s a possible turning level for city biking throughout North America. Cities comparable to Montreal, Portland, and Vancouver have made strides with protected bike lanes and bike-share techniques, however few have tackled parking in a significant, citywide approach in a related style to European cities the place the modal shift has already swung additional within the two-wheeled course.
So can New York pull it off? I’ve my doubts. With out boring you with my litany of complaints (you understand, the sort that begin with “I’m a taxpayer and…”), it is a deeply dysfunctional metropolis. The inexperienced roof on the bike pod is an amusing contact, although. I’d say they need to construct housing on it as an alternative, nevertheless it’s most likely not crucial as a result of somebody will quickly be residing up there anyway–except somebody elsoe figures out learn how to park their RAV4 up there, which is equally seemingly.
I imply how are we going to revolutionize bicycle parking after we can’t even put a motorbike rack by a pool?
Although to be truthful it sounds just like the Central Park Conservancy needed to transfer the rack as a result of folks in New York suck at driving bikes:
The middle, which is run by the Central Park Conservancy – the nonprofit group that manages most of Central Park – initially put in bike racks on the finish of that tough downhill zig-zag on the East Drive north of 106th Avenue. To entry the bike racks, cyclists must dismount at high speeds, after which can be in hurt’s approach as different cyclists handed. And cyclists getting into from Harlem must salmon uphill to entry the racks.
Uh, why would cyclists “need to dismount at high speeds?” Have they not heard of brakes? Even the fixie doofuses can steadily handle to skid themselves to a cease.
I have to say I’m additionally shocked the advocacy set nonetheless makes use of the time period “salmon.” In any case, it was I who invented it, and so they’ve kind of excommunicated me. The truth is I’d cease them from utilizing it if I may, purely out of spite:
In need of that, it appears to me they need to at the least give you their very own time period, and if they’ll’t do this I’m completely satisfied to assist them. Would possibly I counsel “wrong-dogging?” You’ll be able to have that one free of charge.
In the meantime, from Eurobike, right here comes the gravel motor you’ve been ready for:
Simply ensure that to make use of it with this micro-massaging gravel bar tape:
Hey, it would very effectively be unbelievable, nevertheless it certain is creepy trying:
These appear to be ambulacral grooves:
This complete gravel factor is simply getting bizarre.
