The large information yesterday was after all the capturing in Manhattan, with preliminary experiences 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 repeatedly 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 look like a Citi Bike, although it was arduous to make certain 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
Specifically, the bike pictured gave the impression 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 dashing 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 town to subsidize the system, I in all probability wouldn’t have tweeted about it whereas all that was happening:
Simply this yr, Lyft has elevated the worth of CitiBike twice.
It’s time for NYC to spend money on bike share and make it a lot for extra reasonably priced — similar to we spend money on each different type of public transit.https://t.co/a55XqZTWmN
— Lincoln Restler (@LincolnRestler) December 4, 2024
As for town subsidizing Citi Bike, I used to assume they need to do it, however not likely anymore. If nothing else, treating bike share as public transportation opens the door to situations like: “A trains are usually not operating between 207th Road and thirty fourth Road–as a substitute, switch without cost to the closest Citi Bike.” (I’m positive this could give the urbanists boners, but it surely’s not likely honest to regular individuals.) Nonetheless, I’d completely assist 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 town with vehicles. It solely appears honest.
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 File parts of the period:
And extremely they nonetheless supply a mechanical rim brake Tremendous File group right now–although it bears little resemblance to its forebear:
Nonetheless, assuming you might match cable stops on the aero shifter mount and the cables themselves…
…I don’t assume there could be something to cease you from placing the most recent Tremendous File on this 42 year-old bicycle. (Aside from aesthetic concerns, that’s.) I imply sure, you’d want a 12-speed hub too, however I believe 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 excellent of the basic street bike (with the potential exception of the Nishiki decals) is the entire level:
However I might if I wished, which is reassuring. Actually although, one of the simplest ways to “modernize” the Cervino could 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 toes 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:
Consequently, regardless of the 6×2 configuration, the Cervino virtually feels extra “singlespeedy” than the Roaduno does. and I in all probability hassle to shift it about as usually.
Lastly, along with fleeing from assassinations, bicycles are additionally fairly useful for waging battle:
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.
