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• french bike program

• Bike for sale

  http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/765370039.html Manly Bike for Sale Date: 2008-07-22, 10:18AM PDT Bike for sale What kind of bike? I don't know, I'm not a bike scientist. What I am though is a manly guy looking to sell his bike. This bike... Posted Sep 18 2008, 08:33 PM by Astoria Bike Filed under: city bikes

• Bike videos from the old country

  Posted Aug 03 2008, 01:26 PM by Astoria Bike Filed under: city bikes

• Wheel of Misfortune

  My bike died yesterday. Or maybe not. A few days ago I noticed a creaking sound when I pedaled, but it wasn’t coming from the pedals. It seemed to be caused by some motion when I was on the saddle, so I assumed the seat post had become dry and crusty... Posted Jul 14 2008, 11:53 AM by Astoria Bike Filed under: city biking, city bikes

• The Perfect City Bike

  I purposefully try not and post pictures of my bikes or talk about my latest bike ride. I hate blogs that do. Really, who the fuck cares about how fast you biked on what bike but you? But for educational reasons--people really do ask me more than you... Posted Jul 12 2008, 11:50 PM by Astoria Bike Filed under: city bikes, biking in foreign lands

• Sexy Parisians

  There's a good story in the Times about the Paris bike program ... perhaps coming to a corner near you. I was in Lyon a few years ago and was impressed with the system. I wrote about it on this blog . But there's an important detail, you can't... Posted Jul 12 2008, 09:44 PM by Astoria Bike Filed under: city biking, city bikes, biking in foreign lands, french bike program

• Buy someone else's book

  But only after you've bought mine. Still, The Ride is an outstanding new bike-related journal/magazine out of London. And yes, I say that because I have an article in it. But so does Greg LeMond (and about 40 other writers). Outside of actually riding... Posted Jul 12 2008, 02:35 AM by Astoria Bike Filed under: city bikes

• Amsterdam again

  So I'm in Amsterdam again. On day five, I saw my first fixed gear bike. It wasn't like I was missing them or looking for them. I just find it interesting, one in five days. Meanwhile there are now hundreds of bakfietsen . In some ways, symbolically... Posted Jun 29 2008, 06:28 PM by Astoria Bike Filed under: city bikes, Amsterdam, fixed gear

• NYC bike

  In a comment, Carlos DJ writes: Hey Astoria Bike, I'm sure you get emails like this all the time. I just moved to astoria (close to astoria park) and wanted to get back into biking. I haven't biked since the early 90's when i was in high school... Posted May 05 2008, 11:38 AM by Astoria Bike Filed under: city bikes

• Ring, damnit. Ring!

  I’ve been fine tuning my Egyptian spoke bell for a while. The positioning is kind of finicky. It’s got to be just the right distance from the spokes. And the pull’s got to be right so you don’t have don’t worry about doing it wrong. And truth be told... Posted Apr 10 2008, 05:51 PM by Astoria Bike Filed under: city bikes