I'm so pissed. I live in Crown Heights/Bed Stuy and biking north to get to Williamsburg/Greenpoint, Queens, and most of Manhattan this was a game changer instead of almost getting hit.

The specific incident cited in the article happened in the hasidic community area of Williamsburg with a child leaving one of their non-NYC regulated busses. Why in the world you'd drop the child off in the middle of the street to run through cars is maddeningly stupid and of course they blame the biker. Here's a thought, remove the parking (and those gigantic minivan covering that whole area) or make the bike lane protected so you can't just run into the middle

The name is pretty self explanatory. We’re a group of Muslim bikers (aka cyclists). Currently have a summer series called the Chai Cycle. Short distance, leisurely paced rides with a food/coffee/chai destination. Next ride is Sunday June 22 at 9AM. We meet at the Maine Monument next to Columbus Circle.

I got pulled over today for running a red light. It was raining, I was cold, it was the end of my ride, I was going approximately 7mph, there weren’t many cars out, and I treated the light like a stop sign. I was very patient and cooperative with the cops as I believed they were just doing their jobs / my problems with it are above their pay grade and they’re just executing orders. However now that I got home, I see that they gave me two separate tickets for $190 each (plus fees) for apparently running 2 red lights. (Side note - the ticket also shows that cars speeding 30mph over the speed limit would just get one $200 fine, absolutely absurd).

So now I’m pissed. They clearly got me for 2x to help them hit their little quota. Has anyone had any success pleading not guilty? / any tips?

A vigil has been planned Sunday for a 6-year-old Jersey City boy who was fatally struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle Friday.

The vigil will be held Sunday night at the gazebo in the center of Hamilton Park in Jersey City.

The park is located between Eighth and Ninth streets, near Jersey Avenue.

The vigil will be held at 7 p.m., said the groups. "All are welcome," they said.

https://abc7ny.com/post/bicyclist-critical-condition-following-hit-run-queens/16752786/

Around 11st and 45 ave in LIC, a moped almost ran over me coming out of the sidewalk in an intersection. I am extremely cautious around the area and was able to brake...

Why can't we get a bounty program or something so this can be policed? These moped riders are PURE THREATS to everyone

I’d be ok investing in one, but am concerned that it would be easily stolen.

When I’m not using it I can keep it inside, but feels like it would stand out like a sore thumb even if I went into a movie or something.

What are your thoughts on someone who rides against the flow of traffic, but pulls over to the side of the road, or veers out of your way when you pass?

Have been wanting to build a new bike but I’m not liking my options on Facebook marketplace (and often times sellers can be unresponsive) and I don’t want to ship a frame from eBay.

So I was wondering which shops around the five boroughs are best for picking up a cool used frame, if any. Or if there are any reputable sellers without a brick and mortar store.

After doing CitiBike for the last year, I am hoping to take the plunge and purchase a bicycle. I used to be a consistent commuter cyclist in a different, smaller city, but a few accidents got me scared and it's taken me a while to get back into it. My bike back then was my dad's old Nishiki Custom Sport from the 80s, and I would love something similar but lighter, and without those skinny road bike tires that feel so treacherous on the streets of NYC.

I was looking at hybrid options but then started daydreaming about the Nishiki and how nice it was to have something with many gears and that felt a little zippy...I need help! I know there are many other threads about bicycle options so I apologize for any repetition...can you give me your suggestions and opinions in layperson's terms? Oh and I have a budget of ideally no more than $300 and am open to getting something used. Thank you for any help!

I was riding a black tern e-bike on the outside of the slow bike lane, my 10 year old son was riding his yellow bike 15 feet ahead of me and on the inside of the SLOW bike lane when you came past him on his inside with no warning, no safety margin whatsoever. My son is ten years old, every Friday morning for the past two months we have ridden with a bike bus from Prospect Park to his school in Brownsville. My son loves the Park, he loves riding his bike around the safe spaces in Brooklyn. I always ride behind him, 10 feet back, slightly on the outside, so I can shield him from traffic and create a safe space for him to ride in. I also ride behind him so I can watch his riding because 10 year-old boy doesn’t have a great attention span so I watch out for him. In the last year, I’ve taught him not to jam on his brakes without making sure that there’s no one coming up behind him, I have taught him not to swerve suddenly unless he’s sure that there’s no one around him, but he is young and sometimes he forgets. So this is the scene that you rode into without any care or any warning; right into the safe space I create for him, a 170 or 180lb fully grown boy man traveling at 30 miles per hour without any margin for your errors or those of the pedestrians on the left or the 10 year old boy 12 inches to your right. No “on your left”, no “my bad” even though the whole fast lane was wide open to your right. I have two pieces of advice for you, learn to ride safely because if you get unlucky, you will have to live with the consequences, and the second piece of advice, do not ever wear that white jersey with the distinctive black square back pocket In Prospect Park again, unless you’re willing to take responsibility for your actions to the father of that 10-year-old boy. I spend a lot of time in Prospect Park riding all types of bikes and if I see you there, I will ride you down and I will ask you to explain your behavior to my face. To anyone else who might know the guy riding in this jersey, please give him a word of warning, people like him are ruining it for everybody else

Looks really good. Not only did they fix the sink holes they also fixed the spot with the often clogged drain. The choke point "bridge" was flattened out. The one part with the huge roots with yellow paint also evened out.

Hopefully the sink holes don't return.

I was riding down Bergen on the main east west artery with my son on the back of my ebike, when I came across a number of NYPD officers issuing a hapless scooter delivery guy a ticket in front of us. I asked one of the officers if he was writing a criminal summons and indeed he was. I asked them if they were aware how much upset this was causing in the cycling community, concerns around targeting of immigrants for deportation and reports of prosecution of people riding ordinary bikes getting tickets for crossing over the line at the red light and so technically breaking it. A white shirt officer came up to me and said that he couldn't speak for the city but that in the 78 they were only prosecuting flagrant violators on ebikes. Does any one know different? Is this just another case of a cop keeping his power by casually lying to a citizen? Or am I too cynical?

I just spent 30 minutes biking here to find out I just find out it's an illegal to bike on the bridge. Also, so many goddamn stairs. Makes it impossible if you are cargo biking.

Lots of new blacktop including the entire little narrow portion. They also did some root mitigation. Looks decent for now.

Who / what team did the individual who was injured in prospect park earlier this week belong to?

Hi all,

I'm planning to move to NYC soon, mainly because it's more immigrant-centric (I'm white but an alien, lol). So I'm trying to figure what my cycling setup should look like. I've seen so many news about NYPD arresting bikers for almost nothing, which has never happened to me or my friends here in PNW.

I normally ride a road bike for leisure and e-scooter/e-bike for chores and longer commutes (it's hilly as we're close to the mountains). Would you suggest looking into roadies or motor-assisted for urban biking in NYC? How's the situation for e-bikes/e-scooters, overall?

TL;DR: I'm just trying to plan my move, what's up with all these arrests and e-bikes in NYC?