Riding a bike in New York City is becoming a sublime experience, but you might be missing it.
It's interesting because a lot of the New York bike culture doesn't know that there is a very long-standing culture in New York of collecting Schwinns.
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More than 400 kiosks holding 7, 000 blue CitiBikes will be part of the initial deployment for the launch of bike sharing in New York City next month, dotting Manhattan below 69th Street, a quadrant of Brooklyn and a bit of Long Island City, Queens.
Some improvements are fairly easy, such as switching to energy-efficient LED lighting in buildings and streetlights, or setting aside bike lanes and widening sidewalks to encourage alternatives to driving (although such moves aren't without political hazards, as a recent battle over bike lanes in New York shows).
Sitting in street furniture provided by the city and surrounded by mazes of freshly painted bike paths, Sadik-Khan shared her plans to make New York a bike-centric city for commuters.
In the days since, there's been a rush of memories in the New York bike-racing community.
If a question loomed over bike share on Sunday in New York, it wasn't whether the concept would be embraced by biking enthusiasts.
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"The last of the true New York City bike riders, " is how a former U.S. pro champion, John Eustice, put it the other day.
The company pioneered the bike-sharing system adopted in New York but had parted ways with its original software designer.
After John Markoff had an epic bike accident this summer, the New York Times reporter wound up in the hospital with numerous injuries and a 20-minute hole in his memory bank.
As I sped down Dekalb, it was comical to see the reactions of regular New York city bikers, who generally terrorize the new bike lanes, driving the wrong way and dipping in and out of traffic.
Locking the back tire to prevent theft (if a lock is used at all) is a trick that definitely only works in Japan -- you can't leave a bike unattended for five minutes in New York City without it disappearing, even with a wheel lock.
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One of more than 500 bike-sharing systems around the world, New York's is the biggest in the United States.
But there is no comparable event to the Boston Marathon in New York until the Five Boro Bike Tour on May 5, which draws considerably fewer people to the city than the annual marathon, canceled in November due to Superstorm Sandy.
Tim will take a trip through the mean streets of New York City on the Grace One electric bike and Brian will pop by Frog's Manhattan location to take a look at the company's latest industry-defining designs.
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West Coast greenies might be surprised that New York beat Portland, Oregon in completing its bike lanes.
So it has been big news that New York has finally announced the details of its own bike sharing program, which is slated to begin next summer, when approximately 600 stations around the city will provide riders with 10, 000 bikes to take them from station to station.
I've done some riding around New York City, I've commuted intermittently to work on my bike, done some running and played soccer.
Although New York police and the city's Department of Transportation report increasing bicyclists, the number of bike deaths has remained steady.
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