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18t by 46t part 5
A very good community organization had set up a tent off the bike path to get people to stop during this being the second day of bike month. They were giving away stickers and magnets and enticing people to become a member or donate. I stood behind another cyclist of a similar age, a similar…
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18t by 46t part 4
This morning I cycled to get bagels for breakfast. This felt like a definitive Brooklyn bicycling trip. One for the ages. It could have happened in 1963. So I thought about what else would qualify as a uniquely Brooklyn bicycling trip. A bicycling trip to the Coney Island. *Atlantic City bicyclist substituting for Coney Islander.…
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2018 Diamondback Haanjo Trail
The Diamondback Haanjo Trail. I bought it in August 2018 anticipating a September trip on the C&O canal trail from Washington DC to Hancock, Maryland. The bicycle was perfectly fine for the ride. The trail, on the other hand, was inauspicious, muddy and infested with mosquitos. The bike lives on. It is in many ways…
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18t by 46t part 3
My unexamined life sounds like the title of that diatribe I will write concerning how I don’t observe the things staring back at me because I am always leaned over, gawking down at a screen and disconnected from what is around me. I am the ape man. “I’m an apeman, I’m an ape, apeman, oh…
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Accounting for locks
When I first started cycling in new york city, I never locked up my bike. I had locks, but I felt it was too great a risk to leave my bike unattended in this version of the city from 1993. Nowadays I leave my bike locked for a few hours, but never overnight. It is…
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18t by 46t part 2
I am making a list about the Brooklyn Bridge on my trip over it this morning while riding Mr. Wabi Classic. I am in regular disbelief about this new bicycle path. When you look at the slight turn-off, it feels like an afterthought or hastily put together workaround, like mysterious forces coalesced and carved out…
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Pie Plate Removal
I removed the pie plate from my new Ghost Slamr 29 mountain bike. I did not follow Bicycling magazine’s instructions above. I used cutting tools. I am lazy. I did not feel like removing the wheel, finding a chain whip and extracting the cassette from the hub. So I used the tools below. I don’t…
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Shirley Chisholm State Park #1
The gravel paths of Shirley Chisolm park snake around a big mound of a former landfill. It sounds less than glamorous I admit. The park was designed around the Fountain Ave and Pennsylvania Avenue Landfills. It juts out into Jamaica Bay and from its highest point you can spin around in a full 360 degrees to…
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