Additional to yesterday’s submit, not solely is Brooklyn supposedly the very best giant metropolis in America for the using of bikes (though 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 now even evaluating New York to Europe, their platonic splendid of completely the whole lot:
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 similar to Montreal, Portland, and Vancouver have made strides with protected bike lanes and bike-share techniques, however few have tackled parking in a significant, citywide manner in a related vogue to European cities the place the modal shift has already swung additional within the two-wheeled course.
So can New York pull it off? I’ve my doubts. With out boring you with my litany of complaints (you understand, 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 an alternative, but it surely’s in all probability not essential as a result of somebody will quickly be residing up there anyway–until somebody elsoe figures out learn how to park their RAV4 up there, which is equally seemingly.
I imply how are we going to revolutionize bicycle parking once we can’t even put a motorcycle rack by a pool?
Although to be truthful it sounds just like the Central Park Conservancy needed to transfer the rack as a result of folks in New York suck at using 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 difficult downhill zig-zag on the East Drive north of 106th Road. To entry the bike racks, cyclists must dismount at high speeds, after which can be in hurt’s manner as different cyclists handed. And cyclists getting into from Harlem must salmon uphill to entry the racks.
Uh, why would cyclists “should dismount at high speeds?” Have they not heard of brakes? Even the fixie doofuses can regularly handle to skid themselves to a cease.
I need to say I’m additionally stunned the advocacy set nonetheless makes use of the time period “salmon.” In spite of everything, it was I who invented it, they usually’ve kind of excommunicated me. In reality I’d cease them from utilizing it if I might, purely out of spite:
In need of that, it appears to me they need to at the very least provide you with their very own time period, and if they’ll’t try this I’m blissful to assist them. Would possibly I counsel “wrong-dogging?” You possibly can have that one free of charge.
In the meantime, from Eurobike, right here comes the gravel motor you’ve been ready for:
Simply be sure that to make use of it with this micro-massaging gravel bar tape:
Hey, it’d very effectively be unbelievable, but it surely certain is creepy trying:
These appear like ambulacral grooves:
This complete gravel factor is simply getting bizarre.
