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Don’t Chain Up Your Bike to a Sign Post With No Sign

No matter how tall the pole is, without a sign or post on top, some ingenious bike thief will come along and do something like this to your poor ride.

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Keep Your Bikes To Yourselves! South Williamsburg Shuns Bike Share

She looks jealous to us. (NY Post) When the blue Citibank Citi Bikes—thank you again impossibly selfless, unfailingly generous corporate overlords!—start rolling out of their stations, there is one...

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Helmet Huggers: Pedestrians Really Have Nothing to Fear from Bikes (But...

Are the bikers really the problem? (AFP/Getty) When people tend to complain about bikes, it is in terms of law-breaking dare devils. Whether or not this is accurate, at the very least, the pedestrians...

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Painting the Boro Green: 14-Mile Brooklyn Greenway from Bay Ridge to...

Most New Yorkers with $14 million would likely opt for a pricey slice of real estate on the Upper East Side, maybe with a little left over for dinner for a thousand friends at Per Se. But in Brooklyn,...

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Park Slope Letter-Leaver Claims He Did Not Steal Bike Wheels

Hide yo' bikes, hide yo' wives (Getty Images) Bike parts being stolen in Brooklyn can mean only one thing: It's officially summer. (It doesn't matter how hot it is outside, if you can keep your bike...

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Bridge Over Troubled Walkways: Council Members Want Wider Brooklyn Bridge...

Remember the graffiti from a few years ago, the stripe down the sidewalk dividing it between New Yorkers and tourists? If ever there was a place for such a demarcation, it would be the Brooklyn Bridge,...

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Don’t Door Me, Bro: DOT Expands LOOK! Campaign Into Cabs, Reminding Riders to...

Don't forget to tip your driver and look out for bikes. (NYC DOT) (NYC DOT) Last week the city's Department of Transportation (in partnership with the fed's Department of Transportation) unveiled new...

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Barclays Center Rolls Out Completely Necessary Bike Valet Service

(Twitter) Phew! No more fumbling with bike chains or cradling a helmet awkwardly under one arm all night long. Fixi enthusiasts attending the Barclays Center last night finally had the option of...

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Citi Bike Floods Streets With Thousands of Uninsured Cyclists

While the extensive Citi Bike user agreement has a lot of small print, detailing important things like overdue charges and optimal weather conditions, it fails to mention insurance. That's because the...

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To Do Sunday: Virtuous Cycle

Burn off the weekend carbs by cycling to help raise money to fight multiple sclerosis at Flywheel on the Upper West Side. The stylish sweatfest is a partnership between MS Hope for a Cure, the New York...

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