A front page story in this week’s Williamsburg Courier got our attention, “No Bike is Safe on Bedford Av”—about a local vigilante who’s been injecting glue into bike locks to protest the overwhelming number of bicycles that are being locked up on the streets to just about anything including city-owned poles. But he also says [...]
. . . from an Older Belgian Woman
By John D. Eustice
I went to Belgium in the mid 1970s as part of a wave of American riders who wished to infiltrate the mysterious and distant European racing scene. The Belgians condescended to us, who were fool enough to attempt to endure their cobblestones, side winds, cold [...]
Shriek of Dragon BreathA poem by Marc Nasdor
Public Notice:
Vehicles entering Event Horizon
of Designated Comfort Zone
of Designated Bike
(2001 Trek 7700)
& your assumed trajectory
intersecting bike & body in motion
will put motor vehicles at serious risk
of having their drivers’ eardrums
blown deeper into their heads
Bike Rider possesses extraordinary skills
of Perilous Dragon Breath Shriek
Shriek may strip off more layers of [...]
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Easy Riders and Easy on the Environment Too
Electric bicyles get flats too, I learned this past Sunday, Father’s day. The eye-catching bike that I’m riding these days, an electric A2B produced by Ultra Motor, allowed me a swift ride from Bed-Stuy to the Upper West Side, (as well as the added badge of pride that I made it to dinner with my [...]
I imagine carrying fresh produce on the back of my new electric bike with the Mediterranean Sea on the horizon. My new futuristic ride feels old school European, as if I’m riding small, easy streets. “Arrivederci!” “Halo!” I hear zipping past a “marketplace.” But I’m really riding in our wonderful, grimier, urban sprawl: Brooklyn.
“Yo! that’s [...]