Sent to me with the caption, “found your bike.” I died.
Early success of Hub bike sharing surprises even program’s backers »
In its first month, Boston’s European-style bicycle sharing-system pedaled past expectations, attracting riders more than twice as fast as similar programs in Denver and Minneapolis.
As of Aug. 28, the one-month mark, the program known as Hubway had attracted 2,319 annual subscribers and witnessed 36,612 station-to-station trips. At its current clip, the system is on track to surpass 100,000 rides before Halloween.
Daily News Editorial Board Member, Alexander Nazaryan; entitled young transplant from Connecticut, 2002 Dartmouth alum, and therefore “Fake New Yorker”; is completely obsessed with bike lane opposition, despite the abundance of other things in the city/world to think and write about. His bike lane fixation exceeds even my own perverse drive to repeatedly call him out as a complete fraud on the internets.”
— Dueling Bike Lane Polls: What’s The Point If Everyone’s Ignorant?: Gothamist (via n8han)
(via n8han)
All You Haters (Suck My Balls)
THIS. Forever and ever.
Last Call, y’all! Only one day left to back Thank You For Seeing Me, a positive-message approach to road sharing for bikers. The simple statement (“Thank You For Seeing Me!”) is meant to instigate a pay-it-forward model of courtesy: thanking somebody for politely stopping for you at an intersection leaves them with a warm, fuzzy glow that will make them stop again for the next person, and the next person, and so on.
I want to have adventures with you
good artists copy, great artists steal.
i love this shot. it’s a *much better* execution of a shot i went for. the buses are a great background: making the bike stand out more and adding a splash of lovely color, while obscuring the distracting and ugly adverts on the buildings in the background. also he shot this closer and at a lower angle which makes for better a composition. also he had a nice sunny day with sharp shadows. also i’m a bit jealous. hmph. gotta step up my game.
As a general rule, the propensity of non-bicyclists to give biking a try is inversely proportional to the average velocity of the bikers they see on the street. If you live in a city where women in wedge heels are steering their old steel bikes around their daily errand route, there’s really nothing intimidating or scary about the prospect of getting on a bike yourself. If it’s all hipsters on fixies, by contrast, that just makes biking feel all the more alien and stupid.”
— Reuters blogger Felix Salmon reflects on the Slow Bike movement
We get it. Riding a bike is pretty much the best excuse to flex one’s biceps ever so slightly for the camera, and Anderson doesn’t get to do that nearly enough on CNN. We look forward to more bike-riding segments when the show debuts, as well as ones featuring arm wrestling, the lifting of heavy items, and pointing out which way to the beach.”
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Ice Cream rides a Bike
Bikes are New York fringe? Email your friends. Ask how many of them own bikes. Then ask how many of them own cars. If more of them say they own cars, look out the window. You live in Connecticut.”
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The City and Bikes: Rubber Meets Road
A nice calm article dismissing the overwrought pro-bicycle/anti-bicycle media frenzy. Biking is no big deal, just like walking or taking the subway. People get upset over jaywalkers and smelly subway patrons; somehow we all persevere.
(Hat tip to Emily Demarest, I believe she first brought this article to my attention.)
(Source: merylfriedman)
