Proj Meat

Met up with Meat today to put in some miles around the LES, Brooklyn, Queens, and midtown. All in all a successful ride, despite suffering crotch blowout on my Carhartts and nearly getting pinched by an ambulance (of all people)

It turns out we missed a group ride to the courthouse today, where people in support of the 5 Borough Bicycle Club were riding to the courthouse. The 5BBC is suing the NYPD for their tactics in dealing with Critical Mass over the past 4 years. (intimidation, bike confiscation, summons for 'parading without permit' etc)

Here's a Press release on the Time's Up page.

There are more and more people riding in NYC every day (especially now that its warmed up), and its just stupid that the NYPD is maintaining this stance towards a silly group ride that hardly interupts the momentum of this place.

And with more and more riders, comes more bike theft. Hal from Bicycle habitat is quite a character, and he's out rating your lock up jobs again.


(courtesy of streetfilms)

It turns out he invented the bicycle chain too! Incredible!