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Red Hook Gets An Outdoor Bike Co-Op Starting This Weekend
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If your bike has been making that weird clicking noise when you shift gears, Mechanical Gardens has a place for you.
Citi Bike Finally Offers Group Rides
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The nation's biggest bike share system revealed that annual members can rent as many as four Citi Bikes from their active accounts, simply by selecting the "group rides" option in the app.
Get a Taste of Public Bike-Share This Week
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If yesterday’s DOT announcement has whetted your appetite for public bikes, the New York Bike-Share Project has just the thing. From today until Monday, free bikes will be available at four locations in the general vicinity of Greenwich Village. To take one for a spin, participants sign a waiver and give their credit card information. […]
In Defense of Ghost Bikes
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Aaron’s piece questioning the memorialization of bike fatalities reminds us that cycle advocacy is rife with paradoxes. Drawing attention to cycling deaths and injuries can be powerful politically and symbolically but may also scare off would-be riders. Moreover, cycling is safer for all when there are more cyclists. We’ve all wrestled with these contradictions and […]
The American Bike-Share Fleet Has Doubled Since January
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This has been an epic year for bike-share in America. According to a report from the Earth Policy Institute, the opening of Bay Area Bike Share yesterday brought the cumulative size of the bike-share fleets in U.S. cities to 18,000 bikes, more than twice what it was at the beginning of 2013. There are now […]
Why Deborah Rides
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“My whole family rides bikes, my kids have been riding the Citi Bikes too. The only problem is, we don’t have docks on the Upper West Side yet, so I can’t use it for commuting. But it’s been great for other small trips around town. I’m about to meet some friends, we’re all getting bikes […]