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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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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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18t by 46t.
I bought my single speed Wabi classic in August of the year 2013. It has been my bedrock commuting bicycle since then with its low maintenance character. The Wabi’s Continental Gatorskin tires have over 2000 miles of NYC streets on them. I thought I should start here: the experiential, the empirical, the lived experience of…
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