Archive for the ‘street bikes’ Category

New York’s streets have the best bikes. Let’s look. Like any big American city, the streets are full of Schwinns. If it isn’t a Varsity converted to single speed hipster everything, it’s a Collegiate, a Suburban or a Sprite. Still the best colors to this day. Fantastic graphics on this Huffy. And this Peugeot… … […]




This story does not disappoint. My friend Jami’s bike was stolen in Brookyln, so she did what any angry New Yorker would do: she set up a sting with the cops in front of Peter Luger’s to get it back. If you like it, read more on her site and buy her books. They are […]


David Byrne

15Mar10

David Byrne came to town the other day to talk about cycling and do his slideshow. It was fun. He rides his bike in cities he visits and photographs the infrastructure or lack there of. The story was roughly his personal survey of the world’s urban cycling facilities without any of the pretension you might expect […]


Robin Hood

06Mar10