The large information yesterday was after all the taking pictures in Manhattan, with preliminary studies indicating that the suspect fled on a Citi Bike, and beginner sleuths had been rapidly on the case:
I’m pretty assured of the place the United Healthcare murderer escaped to. He escaped on an electrical Citibike, in keeping with police.
I occur to repeatedly scrape Citibike knowledge each minute, so I can see the place particular person bikes go.
The one northbound Citibike to depart inside…
— Riley Walz (@rtwlz) December 4, 2024
My first thought was that the bicycle didn’t look like a Citi Bike, although it was arduous to make sure from the grainy picture:
These are photographs of the person sought in connection to this investigation. If anybody has info as to the identification or location of this particular person please contact @NYPDTips at 1(800)577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/sm2GuEOYk1
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) December 4, 2024
Specifically, the bike pictured seemed to be lacking the attribute skirt guard discovered over the rear wheel of each common and electrified Citi Bikes:
And certainly by that night it turned out to not be a Citi Bike in any case:
Let that be a lesson to everybody about speeding to judgement, although I’m now going to go forward and assume it was a carbon fiber gravel bike till I hear in any other case.
Additionally, despite the fact that it turned out to not be a Citi Bike, if I had been a politician lobbying for the town to subsidize the system, I most likely wouldn’t have tweeted about it whereas all that was happening:
Simply this 12 months, Lyft has elevated the value of CitiBike twice.
It’s time for NYC to put money into bike share and make it a lot for extra inexpensive — similar to we put money into each different type of public transit.https://t.co/a55XqZTWmN
— Lincoln Restler (@LincolnRestler) December 4, 2024
As for the town subsidizing Citi Bike, I used to suppose they need to do it, however probably not anymore. If nothing else, treating bike share as public transportation opens the door to eventualities like: “A trains should not working between 207th Road and thirty fourth Road–as a substitute, switch without cost to the closest Citi Bike.” (I’m certain this could give the urbanists boners, however it’s probably not truthful to regular folks.) Nonetheless, I might completely help the town requiring Citi Bike’s proprietor, Lyft, to offer its bike share service citywide fully freed from cost in change for permitting them to flood the town with vehicles. It solely appears truthful.
Within the meantime, whereas I actually don’t have anything to cover, good luck monitoring me on my analog vintage:
Additional to yesterday’s publish concerning Campagnolo, the Cervino is supplied with the Tremendous Report elements of the period:
And extremely they nonetheless supply a mechanical rim brake Tremendous Report group at this time–although it bears little resemblance to its forebear:
However, assuming you can match cable stops on the aero shifter mount and the cables themselves…
…I don’t suppose there can be something to cease you from placing the newest Tremendous Report on this 42 year-old bicycle. (Other than aesthetic concerns, that’s.) I imply sure, you’d want a 12-speed hub too, however I feel that also runs on a 130mm wheel, and I’ve used these in there with no downside:
This isn’t to say I’m planning on modernizing the Cervino. Certainly, the truth that it’s mainly the Platonic best of the traditional street bike (with the doable exception of the Nishiki decals) is the entire level:
However I may if I needed, which is reassuring. Actually although, one of the best ways to “modernize” the Cervino can be to do it up with fashionable friction shifters and wide-range gearing. However I’ve different bikes for that, and what’s the purpose of gluing in your tires and strapping your toes to a traditional street bike with out additionally reconciling your self to that steep traditional street bike gearing?
Enjoyable truth: the low gear on the Cervino is roughly the center gear on the Roaduno:
In consequence, regardless of the 6×2 configuration, the Cervino nearly feels extra “singlespeedy” than the Roaduno does. and I most likely trouble to shift it about as typically.
Lastly, along with fleeing from assassinations, bicycles are additionally fairly useful for waging battle:
Although even in that context they’re not taken severely:
Whether or not you’re driving a Hyundai or a tank, there’s no avoiding getting caught behind a bike owner.
