The massive information yesterday was after all the capturing in Manhattan, with preliminary reviews indicating that the suspect fled on a Citi Bike, and novice 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 accordance with police.
I occur to constantly scrape Citibike information 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 seem like a Citi Bike, although it was laborious 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 id or location of this particular person please contact @NYPDTips at 1(800)577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/sm2GuEOYk1
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) December 4, 2024
Particularly, 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 spite of everything:
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, though it turned out to not be a Citi Bike, if I had been a politician lobbying for the town to subsidize the system, I in all probability wouldn’t have tweeted about it whereas all that was happening:
Simply this 12 months, Lyft has elevated the worth of CitiBike twice.
It’s time for NYC to put money into bike share and make it a lot for extra reasonably priced — identical 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 not likely anymore. If nothing else, treating bike share as public transportation opens the door to eventualities like: “A trains are usually not working between 207th Road and thirty fourth Road–in its place, switch without spending a dime to the closest Citi Bike.” (I’m positive this could give the urbanists boners, nevertheless it’s not likely truthful to regular folks.) Nonetheless, I’d 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 automobiles. 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 submit concerning Campagnolo, the Cervino is provided with the Tremendous Report elements of the period:
And extremely they nonetheless provide a mechanical rim brake Tremendous Report group in the present day–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 most recent Tremendous Report on this 42 year-old bicycle. (Aside from aesthetic issues, 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 drawback:
This isn’t to say I’m planning on modernizing the Cervino. Certainly, the truth that it’s principally the Platonic ideally suited of the basic street bike (with the attainable exception of the Nishiki decals) is the entire level:
However I may if I wished, which is reassuring. Actually although, one of the simplest ways to “modernize” the Cervino can be to do it up with trendy 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 ft to a basic street bike with out additionally reconciling your self to that steep basic street bike gearing?
Enjoyable truth: the low gear on the Cervino is roughly the center gear on the Roaduno:
Because of this, regardless of the 6×2 configuration, the Cervino nearly feels extra “singlespeedy” than the Roaduno does. and I in all probability hassle to shift it about as typically.
Lastly, along with fleeing from assassinations, bicycles are additionally fairly helpful for waging warfare:
Although even in that context they’re not taken significantly:
Whether or not you’re driving a Hyundai or a tank, there’s no avoiding getting caught behind a bicycle owner.
