A new promotional video about the loop.
Post any interesting links you find in the comment section.
Local
National
- Virginia Bike Advocate Cries Foul Over Streetsblog’s Criticism of Eric Cantor
- Bike Ban Averted in Albuquerque, City Moves to Add Bike Lanes Instead
- Bike-Ped Traffic, Funding, and Fatalities All Inch Upward
- SoupCycle reaches milestone 50,000th delivery
- The state of cycling: Alliance for Biking & Walking releases ‘2012 Benchmarking Report’
- Program gives jobs to Lansing inmates and thousands of bikes to community
- Bicycle bandit arrested after student sets up sting
- Portland energy expert takes on helmet recycling
- Startup: Portland-based BikeTrak helps cyclists track down stolen bikes
- Bike racks? How about safer streets, says report
- Lack of bike racks leads to unusual parking choices
International
- Stolen bike returned to mystified owner 28 years later
- MP’s proposed new law against ‘dangerous cycling’ looks doomed
Watch a Bicycle Get Stolen Piece by Piece Over 365 Days
at:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/01/watch-bike-get-stolen-piece-piece-over-365-days/1027/
Watch a Bicycle Get Stolen Piece by Piece Over 365 Days
at:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/01/watch-bike-get-stolen-piece-piece-over-365-days/1027/
The bike does pretty well until day 211 where both the basket and the front Kryptonite lock disappear, after that the decline is fairly rapid. I’m not sure I’d call this stealing. More like salvaging. The bike was abandoned. Leave a car on the street and it gets towed in less than a month. I’m pretty sure Mike posted this earlier but perhaps it was only on his Facebook feed?
It’s not clear to Red Star that the bike was abandoned: there was a secret camera watching it, rrrrright? In the common sense of “abandoned,” it wasn’t really (the thieves didn’t know that of course, and that may be the point). Or perhaps not: Red Star is not familiar with NYC salvage rights as they apply to bikes, if at all. Why would someone go to all the trouble of the project if bicycle-stripping (okay, you’re not sure you would call it stealing) weren’t a known and reprehensible phenomena?
Red Star does make an effort to not re-post something Tucson Velo has already posted in the Link Roundup. Searching. Red Star doesn’t search the Facebook page, nor the 1200 (as of this moment) links to the instant story on Google. There isn’t time and in any case: “Post any interesting links you find in the comment section.” (Tucson Velo)
Regards,
Red Star
Here’s another interesting one from today that may or may not have appeared elsewhere and earlier in Tucson Velo…
In Chicago, A Store for Bike Snobs (and Coffee Lovers)
at:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/01/chicago-bike-store-snobs-and-coffee-lovers/1029/
Haven’t seen that one.
If it were parked somewhere and I saw it for 211 days never moving I’d still leave it alone but if it were my bike I’d have no expectation that it could persist unmoved and unmolested for 211 days.
And there’s even the old saying “if you don’t keep your bike moving, you fall off.”