Oonee, a Safe Bike Parking Pod, Coming Soon to Lower Manhattan
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Finally, someone is offering something better than locking up on a traffic pole and hoping your bike is there when you get back.
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Meet the Oonee Pod, Secure Bike Parking Designed to Be Flexible Enough for NYC
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Co-founders Shabazz Stuart and Manuel Mansylla hope the Oonee Pod will become a fixture of New York City's public spaces. They unveiled their prototype Tuesday night.
Hal Grades Your Bike Locking 2014
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It’s hard to believe, but it’s been nearly five years since we last went traipsing around SoHo grading people’s bike locking with Hal Ruzal from Bicycle Habitat. So it was time for the next chapter with the mechanic who wears pink-purple socks, admonishing you about how to lock your wheels, frame, and seat correctly. The process is […]
Why Does Bike Theft Persist? Because There’s No Enforcement
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Here’s some Labor Day weekend reading on one of New York’s vexing problems: bike theft, which, is up 25 percent over last year. As of July, 1,694 bikes were reported stolen this year, according to the NYPD, which encourages bike owners to have their frames etched with identifying codes. Actual thefts are likely much higher than the […]
Canadian Web TV Producers School Police on How to Catch Bike Thieves
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Bike theft in New York City is so famously bad that Kryptonite names their top-of-the-line lock after the Big Apple. Because bike theft generally goes unreported, hard data on just how rampant the problem is can be hard to come by; a 1992 Transportation Alternatives study found that, on average, every cyclist in the city […]
Theft and Vandalism Just Not a Problem For American Bike-Sharing
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Even as bike-sharing spreads across the United States, it remains dogged by one persistent doubt. Critics, and even some boosters, fear that the bikes will be routinely stolen and vandalized. It’s time to stop worrying about crime, however. In America’s new bike-sharing systems, there have been essentially no such problems. Fears that public bikes will […]