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TIME'S UP! GOES TO THE DOGS

Posted: May 23rd, 2010, 11:53pm EDT

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Third Annual Doggie Pedal Parade Sunday, May 23, 2010 Meet 2:00 p.m. at Tompkins Square Park Dog Run, near Ave. A & 9th St. Bring your dog and bicycle to the third annual Doggie Pedal Parade. We will ride our dogs in baskets and trailers, listen to doggie tunes playing on the music bike, and end at Washington Square Park for a party complete with snacks and drinks for all. The ride will highlight bicycles adapted to transport pets (see 5/20 pup your ride workshop) as well as the benefits of adopting homeless animals. CLICK HERE for more information on the 5/23 ride & 5/20 pup your ride workshop
FOLDS UP! FOLDING BIKE RIDE & FESTIVAL

Posted: May 22nd, 2010, 9:07pm EDT

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TIME'S UP!'s Annual Celebration of Small-Wheeled & Folding Bikes Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 THE RIDE Meet 2 p.m. at West 23rd St on the Hudson River Greenway A leisurely 10-mile ride through Manhattan and Brooklyn showcasing folding bicycles. But all types of bikes are welcome, as long as their riders are folding-curious! THE FESTIVAL 4:00 pm at Stuyvesant Cove Park (East 23rd Street at the East River) Learn all about folding bicycles, and see and try out different models. Photos of 2007 Ride > Video of 2006 Ride > More info on 2008 Ride & Festival and Small-Wheeled Race >
LADIES NIGHT DANCE RIDE

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 10:42pm EDT

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Ladies Night Dance Ride Friday, March 19, 2010 Meet 7:00 p.m. in Tompkins Sq Park Center of the park near the big tree Ladies around the world are getting out of cars and onto bikes! Yet in some countries, women are still not allowed to ride bicycles. It's International Women's Month. Let's join all women in solidarity with a ladies night in the streets. Special guest appearance by an all female dance troupe on bikes.

Streetfilms

Voices From The National Bike Summit

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:57am EDT by Elizabeth Press

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Last week, hundreds of bike advocates descended on Washington D.C. for the tenth annual National Bike Summit -- the largest one yet. Hosted by the League of American Bicyclists, the summit is always a great opportunity for advocates to share ideas and make the case for cycling on Capitol Hill. This year attendees encouraged their senators and representatives to sign on to several key pieces of legislation, including the Active Community Transportation Act, Safe Routes to School Act, and the Urban Revitalization and Livable Communities Act.

Streetfilms attended the summit and had the chance to talk to several participants. Check out this wrap-up for insight into some of the big bicycle initiatives happening around the country. You'll hear from conference host Andy Clarke, Representative Earl Blumenauer, Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, the FTA's Peter Rogoff, and more.

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De nouveaux sacs Dahon

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:33am EDT

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http://www.velotaf.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=12104
Dahon dévoile de nouveaux sacs de transports pour ses pliants.

Trois sacs différents offrent de nouvelles possibilités de stockage et de transport.

Lidée du vélo pliant induit la facilité à stocker et emporter le vélo avec soi déclare Matthew Davis, directeur des ventes et du marketing. Pour le faire convenablement, il faut de bons sacs. Depuis lan dernier, nous nous sommes intéressés aux manières dont les gens utilisent leur vélo, et nous avons conçu les sacs selon ces observations.

De nombreux transports en commun nacceptent pas les vélos à leur bord; mais ils tolèrent les vélos pliants sils sont emballés. Léger et rapide à manipuler, le CarryOn Cover est prévu pour le train, le bus ou le métro. Le poids du vélo est réparti sur des sangles à lintérieur de la housse. Du coup, lenveloppe extérieure est légère et compressible pour se ranger sous la selle.

Le Stow bag est plus épais et renforcé pour protéger le vélo des chocs et cahots. Le textile, les fermetures et les boucles sont plus résistantes pour améliorer la longévité du sac. Deux tailles sont disponibles pour convenir à lessentiel de la gamme Dahon.

Un vélo complètement plié présente une forme quasi-cubique qui ne convient pas aux espaces de rangement en longueur ou verticaux. Le Body Bag emballe le vélo dont seul le guidon est replié et la selle baissée, pour se cacher sous un lit ou derrière une porte. Le Body Bag comporte un crochet pour garder la position verticale.

Ces projets ont été développés avec plaisir et intérêt car beaucoup de gens chez Dahon sont des utilisateurs des vélos de leur marque, continue Davis. De nombreuses caractéristiques viennent directement de leurs remarques.

Tous ces sacs sont désormais disponibles dans le réseau Dahon. Plus d'infos sur www.dahon.com

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Floppy Schwinn kickstand - 1970's.

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:27am EDT by custermustache

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I was riding my Schwinn Suburban on the cobbles this weekend and my kickstand flopped down when it got rough - what part do I need to replace to fix the problem? Under normal riding it stays up, but if I hit a bump it will drop.

My LBS has the tool to remove it, but not the part to fix it. What do I need to buy?

Please don't suggest I remove the kickstand, as I do use it.
I'm beginning to understand the whole Trek thing.

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:26am EDT by Barrettscv

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I rotate a few bikes, but my 1987 Trek 400d Elance is becoming a favorite.

The bike provided me with my best ride of year, so far.

The weather was cold, windy & damp. However the skies started to clear as the morning progressed and it became a great ride. I headed into the 18 mph wind for the first 25 miles. I stopped for coffee and meet three riders from the popular XXX racing club. They invited me to tag along and my fender-clad 1978 Trek 400 and I hung in there with a pace of 17 to 22 mph. I even pulled for a while and went off-the-front during a curvy section. Considering I've been mostly off the bikes since November, I was really pleased.

After about 15 miles of hanging in there, I thanked them and let them pull ahead.

I covered 51 miles in a little over 3 hours. The bike performed perfectly. yes, I've updated the wheels & drivetrain, but the soul of the bike is vintage Trek. That Reynolds 531 frame is magic.
What tube stem length do I need for my LHT?

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:24am EDT by oldsettlerswood

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Hello!
Making a purchase today and I need to order some spare tubes for my LHT. What presta stem length comes on these.....32mm or 48mm?

Also, one of the reasons I opted for the 26" wheel was for availability of that size of tube/tire just about anywhere. But, having presta tubes just seems to contradict that. I don't think I could get anything but schrader at a Walmart or hardware store. Have most of you kept the Presta or has anyone had the rims drilled for Schrader? This just confuses me.

Thanks!
Sidi Ergo 2 Anti-Slip Sticker

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:19am EDT by Savoury69

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Hi all on BF,
Just a quick question for you. Recieved a pair of Ergo 2's today and in the box is a pair of anti-slip stickers and I'm not sure where to install them, i.e. on the sole of the shoe, on the cleats or as the manual says on 'the plate of the chosen pedal'?!? Doesn't sound right to me, so any advice will be a great help.
Can't believe I'm actually asking for advice on where to stick something, especially on here! :lol:

Cheers Sav.
can anyone help identify this Bianchi

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:12am EDT by sampletattoo

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hello, hoping someone may be able to help me figure out what year and/or model this is. It was found discarded in a heap of garbage. Has the "made in italy' sticker, gipiemme stamped front and rear dropouts, campagnolo high flange hubs, nisi hr22 black rims with what looks like old vittoria tires of some sort. and a 27.0 diameter seatpost.
the seatstays are stamped "B" , and the fork crown is stamped "Bianchi" , the forks are really interesting and will send a pic seperatley of them later today once back at my shop with the bike.
pic here is o the bike after being found.
serial number on headtube lug reads 2d13225

any help would be greatly appreciated. Attached Images
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Bike Lane Question?

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:09am EDT by Rocket-Sauce

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***I also posted this in 41***

I am curious about the legality of bike lanes. Specifically, if there is an available lane, do I *have* to ride in it? I ask because there are lots of new bike lanes popping up in my area, but they are often way off to the right. This is the the worst part of the road for bikes -broken pavement, storm drains, "door zone", etc.

Going through an intersection or waiting for a light to change in the bike lane means there is a high probability that a motorist is going to make a right turn directly in front of me cutting me off (or worse) as if I was not there.

After being a bike messenger for 5 years, I learned to ride as if completely invisible and assume I never have the right of way and that every motorist/pedestrian/fellow cyclist/etc is going to do the thing most likely to cause the most damage to me. I learned to take full responsibility for my own safety. That often (usually) means leaving the designated lane.

So do I have to stay in the lane? I am comfortable taking the lane and do so without being obnoxious about it, but since there is a lane set aside, what does that do to my own liability?

I tried looking up the legality here in Mass and the language is vague.
Road Touring bikes with 26" wheel option, Salsa, Surly, what else?

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:04am EDT by Jay H

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In the market for a 4-season commuter/touring bike with a 26" wheel option.

My preface is that I am 5'5", ride/commute on a 49cm Lemond Zurich and also have a set of 26" studded tires for some winter commuting.

Are there any decent steel framed road bikes with the usual assortment of braze ons for racks and fenders that is available in the US without going through hoops other than the Surly LHT or the Salsa Vaya? I was originally dead set at buying an LHT but found out other folks are making road frames with 26" wheel rims...

Any other bikes to check out? I used to just commute on a mtb but thinking now, a road frame may be better for my needs..

Jay
Hello

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:01am EDT by Sabertooth12

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from NE Georgia. I look forward to sharing information here.

Regards,
Joey:)

Streetsblog

Today’s Headlines

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:00am EDT by Ben Fried

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- Yellow Bus Honcho Makes Dept of Ed an Offer They Can't Refuse (Post)
- Cabbies and Customers in an Uproar Over Excess Charging Scandal (NYT, News, NY1)
- Livable Streets Mensch David Yassky Tapped to Head TLC (NY1)
- Hit-and-Run SUV Driver Kills Man in Brighton Beach (News, Post)
- TWU Petitions City -- Not Albany -- To Increase Funding for Student MetroCards (News)
- Congestion Pricing Foe Jeff Dinowitz to MTA: You Gotta Find Some Cash (R'dale Press)
- DMI's John Petro Lays Out What Went Wrong With Ratner's Arena Project (HuffPo)
- NYC Rolling Out Full-Scale Brooklyn Greenway Plan? (Post)
- Feds May Require Black Box to Record Crash Data in All Cars (NYT)
- How Will East Side Bus Lanes Co-exist With Second Ave Subway Construction? (SAS)
- Replacing Central Park Horses With Fake Vintage Cars: The Idea's Not Dead Yet (City Room)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

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Knog Bullfrog dissapointment

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 8:54am EDT by mrtornadohead

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Just bought the Bullfrog for my son's bike. For the money, I ma VERY dissapointed in it's output. OK, so it has a bunch of flash patterns which, for a headlight are just plain annoying. Why would you need more than one blink pattern? As a motorist, when I see blinking headlights it is annoying as hell. As a be-seen light it's not bad but you would be hard pressed to use it to *see* your way home with.

For the money, the Planet Bike Blaze or a similarly-priced Cateye would do much better.

So, for that amount of money, what do you gain from the Bullfrog? OK, there's that silicone-y housing/band thing but really, I don't think it's worth that much more.

I'd take it back to the LBS I bought it from but since I pitched the packaging, I'm out of luck. But that is only my fault.

Sorry, just felt like venting a bit, and warning some people.

Bike Hugger

Cyclefilms the Mobile Social SXSW 2010

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 8:49am EDT by DL Byron

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pBy all accounts, this was our best Mobile Social so far and we#8217;ve got more coming with dates being announced soon in Toronto and Portland. This year, a href="http://www.cyclefilm.com/"Cyclefilm/a made this film for us/p !--[if !IE] -- object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/l9L7V6OmoJsamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;" width="400" height="240" !-- ![endif]-- !--[if IE] object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="400" height="240" param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l9L7V6OmoJsamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;" / !--!-- [Validifier.com] -- /object !-- ![endif]-- pbr //p pand wow, what fun. a href="http://www.socialcyclingatx.com/"Social Cycling ATX/a led a well-organizied ride of 700 to 100 cyclists with a marching band sending them off. Google slingshotted shirts and joined our other partners in providing quality schwag, beer, and good times for the attendees at a href="http://www.mellowjohnnys.com/"Mellow Johnnys/a./p pWe#8217;ll have more wrapups, a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/mobile_social_sxsw10/"photos/a, and videos in the next few days. After the a href="http://bikehugger.com/tag/bike%20expo"Bike Expo/a, I#8217;m en route to Austin for a talk with a href="http://twitter.com/livestrongceo"@livestrongCEO/a Doug Ulman about a href="http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/841"Bikes and Changing the World/a./p h2Our partners/h2 table id="hor-minimalist-b" summary="Mobile Social SXSW Partners 2009" !-- Table header -- tbody tr td ul lia href="http://www.dahon.com/"Dahon/a/li lia href="http://gowalla.com/"Gowalla/a/li lia href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hq=http://maps.google.com/help/maps/directions/biking/mapplet.kmlamp;ie=UTF8amp;ll=37.687624,-122.319717amp;spn=0.346132,0.727158amp;z=11amp;lci=bikeamp;dirflg=bamp;f=damp;utm_campaign=enamp;utm_medium=haamp;utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk-bdamp;utm_term=google%20bike%20maps"Google Bike Maps/a/li lia href="http://www.ibexwear.com/"Ibex/a/li lia href="http://www.mellowjohnnys.com/"Mellow Johnnys/a/li lia href="http://www.trekbikes.com/"Trek Bikes Research/a/li /ul /td td ul lia href="http://twitter.com/tweethouse"Tweethouse/a/li lia href="http://www.closed-loop-marketing.com/"Closed Loop Marketing/a/li lia href="http://clip-n-seal.com/"Clip-n-Seal/a/li lia href="http://texturadesign.com/"Textura Design, Inc./a/li lia href="http://maccreate.com/"Maccreate/a/li li a href="http://www.spokiz.com/"Spokiz/a/li /ul /td td ul liAnon donor/li lia href="http://www.buffwear.com/"Buff/a/li lia href="https://www.crumplerbags.com/flash/flash.aspx"Crumpler/a/li lia href="http://www.hedcycling.com/"Hed/a/li lia href="http://www.intel.com/"Intel/a/li lia href="http://www.nikwax.com/"Nikwax/a/li lia href="http://www.cyclefilm.com/"Cyclefilm/a/li /ul /td /tr /tbody /table pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/heuYAjayr-NMlDrNL_efK6Ix35g/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/heuYAjayr-NMlDrNL_efK6Ix35g/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/heuYAjayr-NMlDrNL_efK6Ix35g/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/heuYAjayr-NMlDrNL_efK6Ix35g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BikeHugger/~4/XYRzAYNMkXU" height="1" width="1"/

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DT Swiss Tools -- need help understanding...

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 8:47am EDT by JonathanGennick

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I'm replacing cartridge-bearings for the first time ever, and the hubs involved just happen to be DT Swiss brand. Hence, I'm trying to understand the tools. I've found the following two options for sale:

[jensonusa.com]

[www.speedgoat.com]

Question: what are those lumps of aluminum in the photos? I'm not finding much in the way of product detail -- just a photo and a very high price.

I wish I could tell you which model DT Swiss hubs that I have. But I can't. My hubs are part of a Bontrager Rhythm Elite wheelset. They are stamped "DT Swiss", but no model number is given.

So far, I've knocked out the front hub hearings by following the instructions for the DTS370 hub. (Essentially, I used a hammer). My rear hub bearings do not squeak, so I will leave those alone for now.

My next challenge is to press in the replacement bearings.

I like to have good tools. I can afford the $85 for what Jenson has on offer, if that's the correct set to buy. Is it?

Odomètre

Dans l’oeil du cyclone

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 8:46am EDT by defrag

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Vélo : Appalache
Distance : 24.23 km
Départ : 2010-03-15 06:30:00
Durée : 75 min.
Trajet : Voir le parcours
Ce matin je roulais exactement à la vitesse du vent. J’avais l’impression d’être arrêté tellement c’était calme. Je vais payer ce soir.
Croiser un cycliste le matin sur Notre-Dame à la hauteur des raffineries est déjà un événement en soit. Qu’il roulait en fixe ajoute au singulier de la chose.

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How fast is too fast to safely signal a turn?

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 8:40am EDT by bryroth

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My route takes me across a couple intersections where instead of a right-angle right turn there is more of a sloping right turn that you don't have to slow down as much for.

Other times, I am going pretty fast to "keep up" with motor traffic right up until the point that I need to turn, where I hit the brakes pretty hard and then make the turn.

A lot of times I feel like I am going way too fast to take my left hand off of the handlebar and stick it over my head. It just feels dangerous.

Do I need to work on my control or are there other people out there who just don't signal anymore once they reach a certain velocity? Or does the road forum consider me a giant dork for signaling my turns at all?
10+ Year Old Park TS-2 Stand. Calibration?

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 8:23am EDT by Ihsan Gin

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I have a chance to buy a 10+ year old Park TS-2 truing stand. I'm not familiar with whether/how frequent a calibration needed for these units and a quick search did not yield any results other than "lubricate regularly" on the Park tools website.

I see that there are calibration/centering kits for it, but buying both the kit and the used TS-2 will be more than 75% of a new one so I don't want to go that route if I can be sure of the calibration issue.

Anyone care to offer some insight?
Thanks,

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