Priceonomics Blog: The Fixie Bike Index
“Messengers are big fixie aficionados, but more and more fixed-gear bikes are being ridden by nonmessengers, most conspicuously the kind of younger people to whom the term “hipster” applies and who emanate from certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn.”
According to our data, Manhattan is actually more hipster than Brooklyn. Short of surveying the snugness of men’s pants in each borough, it’s not an easy assertion to quantify…
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Fall Bike
BIKE TO SURF
Design a bike that can haul my surfboard while looking cool at the same time…now that is a challenge. See more pictures of this pretty cool bike here. OhGizmo! via chirosangaku:
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Ouch!
Just had a nice little wipe out on the bicycle caused by a bad combination of rain, streetcar tracks and bus parked where it shouldn’t have been. Needless to say, at my age, that’s going to hurt for a while…luckily though got away with just a very bruised arm and torn up pants (also very wet).
First little bike related accident of the season.
