Guerrila bike lanes and arrests

Published / by Richard Masoner / 10 Comments on Guerrila bike lanes and arrests

Some people painting guerrilla bike lanes on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn have apparently been arrested : According to tipsters, the neighborhood’s volunteer community watch group responded to reports at around 4 am that two men were using spraypaint to recreate a section of the bike lane, which the Department of Transportation controversially removed from a […]

Buyer’s Guide to Bike Shaped Objects

Published / by Richard Masoner / 10 Comments on Buyer’s Guide to Bike Shaped Objects

The “Bike Shaped Object” or BSO is the derisive term bike snobs like me use for the cheap, two wheeled toys sold at mass retail outlets. They seem to almost always be improperly assembled with parts installed backwards, non functioning brakes, bent pedals, and warped wheels. My first bit of advice about buying a Bike […]

Bike messenger delivered Pearl Harbor attack warning

Published / by Richard Masoner / 34 Comments on Bike messenger delivered Pearl Harbor attack warning

Today — December 7 — is “the day that will live in infamy,” when the Japanese Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack in 1941 that crippled the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Here’s a tiny little footnote in history about this day. Japan intended to deliver a declaration of war 30 minutes prior to […]