Additional to yesterday’s put up, not solely is Brooklyn supposedly one of the best giant metropolis in America for the driving of bikes (although 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 are actually even evaluating New York to Europe, their platonic excellent 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 resembling Montreal, Portland, and Vancouver have made strides with protected bike lanes and bike-share methods, however few have tackled parking in a significant, citywide method in a related style to European cities the place the modal shift has already swung additional within the two-wheeled path.
So can New York pull it off? I’ve my doubts. With out boring you with my litany of complaints (you recognize, 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 a substitute, nevertheless it’s most likely not needed as a result of somebody will quickly be residing up there anyway–until somebody elsoe figures out the right way 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 motorcycle rack by a pool?
Although to be honest 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 method as different cyclists handed. And cyclists coming into from Harlem must salmon uphill to entry the racks.
Uh, why would cyclists “must dismount at high speeds?” Have they not heard of brakes? Even the fixie doofuses can regularly 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 roughly excommunicated me. Actually 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 no less than provide you with their very own time period, and if they’ll’t try this I’m completely happy to assist them. May I counsel “wrong-dogging?” You possibly can have that one totally free.
In the meantime, from Eurobike, right here comes the gravel motor you’ve been ready for:
Simply make sure that to make use of it with this micro-massaging gravel bar tape:
Hey, it would very nicely be improbable, nevertheless it positive is creepy wanting:
These appear like ambulacral grooves:
This complete gravel factor is simply getting bizarre.
