Sometimes when we're bored, we'll pop in one of the "Grand Theft Auto" games and just drive around on a dirt bike popping wheelies (oh, San Andreas). It's just fun, y'know? But we've never actually considered doing it IRL, let alone on the streets of Manhattan. And we certainly never considered doing it in real life on the street of Manhattan one handed. more ›

If you lock your bicycle to a CityRack in SoHo, how long will it take before mendacious thieves pick its bones completely clean? Well, judging by the poor dismembered bike in this time-lapse video, a little under nine months—or 36 seconds. The designers and "brand strategists" at a company called Red Peak locked a fully loaded bike—basket, water bottle, bells, lights, etc.—on a busy street in SoHo and took a photo of it every day last year. Here is the sad story of that bike's consumption by a city starving for water bottles, spare bike parts and scrap metal: more ›

How serious are the police taking their promise to slow down speeding bikers in Prospect Park? So seriously they are following the Daily News' lead and actively try to enforce the speed limit in the park. Still, "We’re not going to be jumping out of trees, ticketing for little things like wearing headphones," an NYPD spokesman told the Brooklyn Paper. more ›

In keeping with the tabloids' "fresh" narrative concerning the battle in public parks between heartless cyclists vs. vulnerable pedestrians, the Daily News visited Prospect Park with a radar gun last weekend and "clocked bikers going as fast as 31 mph—even through a red light at a crosswalk." And like the NYPD, they have no respect for journalism: " 'Move from here! Move from here!' one cyclist clad in racing gear yelled at a reporter who was not even in a bike-only lane." more ›

A cyclist dares to challenge the behavior of a pedestrian in Central Park, and the New York Post cannot BELIEVE the injustice. 46-year-old Sabine von Sengbusch is suing 28-year-old Meghan Rohan after von Sengbusch's bike struck Rohan after she allegedly walked into the bike lane near 69th Street and East Drive. Rohan shattered her elbow, but the cyclist is claiming the accident caused her "great physical pain and mental anguish." Maybe Rohan can use the Frisbee Defense? more ›

What was once the Native American's Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan is now Broadway, probably the most famous thoroughfare in all the land. Stretching north from Bowling Green all the way up to Westchester, it rambles even further as U.S. 9. Perhaps inspired by all that pavement's potential, one intrepid cyclist recently picked up the trail in the Bronx and pedaled all the way down to the bottom of Manhattan, filming the entire trip. Here's the kinetic time lapse video of the adventure—be sure to stay tuned for a "terrible idea" at the 2:44 mark. more ›

Arturas Zuokas, mayor of the Lithuanian town of Vilnius, is a hero to those of us who frequent the city's bike lanes. If a luxury vehicle happens to obstruct them in Vilnius, he is not afraid to use his tank to enforce the law. We dreamed of a day when Mayor Bloomberg and Janette Sadik-Khan will plow over those giant tour buses on the Bowery, but it appears that Zuokas is taking his message to NYC. This video shows him slapping a sticker depicting a tank crushing a car on a Chrysler blocking a bike lane on Prince Street. more ›

Since September the city has had pedestrian safety managers on each of the East River bridges, an experiment set to end on November 26th when the DOT will review the $80,000-a-month program. But as far as the cyclist-hating Post is concerned, the program is already a total dud. They say that commuters have already decided the program isn't working, while quoting one cyclist, who had, according to their report, one collision. Now, we've been a bit skeptical of this whole thing ourselves, but just to be sure we decided to head over there yesterday to see what some of those glorified crossing guards had to say for themselves. more ›

Yesterday, the FDNY and NYPD raided Zuccotti Park and confiscated Occupy Wall Street's "generators and fuel from Zuccotti that posed a fire safety threat." Even the biofuels, man! But cycling advocacy group Times Up! energy-mapped the whole park and determined it would take 11 pedal-powering generators to fuel the movement, at the total cost of around $8,000. more ›

After a taking a summer vacation, the anti-cyclist's favorite threat, cycling licenses and registration, returned to town last night at the Transportation Committee of the UES's Community Board 8, where a resolution "petitioning the city and state to require bicycle registration and some kind of identification for the vehicles, like a license plate" was approved. The nearly unenforceable idea now moves on to the full Community Board which will vote on it October 19th, before sending it on to City Hall and Albany. more ›

So you've decided to start riding a bicycle, congratulations—hope you don't mind a little black lung! But seriously, now that you've gotten used to riding with lots of traffic and taken our tips to heart, we have a hunch you might be looking for a way to keep your new commute interesting—and also make you feel less guilty for skipping out on the gym. One way we've found to do that is by tracking our trips and what do you know, there is an app for that. more ›

So you've been given the job of being a "pedestrian safety manager" on one of the city's Brooklyn/Manhattan bridges. From now until November 26 you have the fun duty of trying to bring peace between the bikers and walkers going over the spans between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays (noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays). What do you think your hourly salary is? more ›

Cycling advocates were jubilant at the results of separate Quinnipiac and Marist polls that showed New Yorkers supporting bike lanes by 59 and 66 percent, respectively. Well, it appears that what those polls hid was good ole' NYC apathy: former Gallup pollster David Moore points to the fact that neither poll gave respondents a third "No opinion" option, and a new poll conducted by Art Science Research Laboratory showed that 56 percent of New York residents surveyed have "No opinion," while 23 percent favor, and 21 percent oppose bike lane expansion. Historians, did Mark Twain ride a bicycle? more ›

Got the end-of-weekend blues? Well here's a cycling story that's sure to imbue you with enough self-righteousness and indignant rage to make you forget your troubles: a cyclist is complaining about receiving $1,500 in fines for running red lights. "It's absurd," pedicab driver Juan Rodriguez tells the Daily News, referring to his miserable luck in getting three red light tickets, despite the fact that 30 people probably ran a red light in NYC by the time you finish reading this sentence. "When you look at the fines leveled and the actual offenses, it makes no sense." more ›

Prompted by the cycling death of Marilyn Dershowitz, who was killed last month on West 29th Street in a below-ground corridor by a 7-ton truck, the Department of Transportation is proposing a system of bike lanes in Chelsea that would run east to west on 29th and 30th streets. Members of CB 4 asked the agency for a "safe bike route west of Eighth Avenue," but the DOT specifically wanted to use West 29th and 30th streets, DNAinfo reports. CB 4's transportation co-chair says, "The safety of the bicyclists is our primary concern." more ›

We all laughed when that CBS 2 reporter suggested that terrorists could utilize bike lanes to wreak havoc on innocent bystanders, but today we stand humbled and afraid: two "bicycle bandits" have struck in Greenwich Village. Police say that a pair of thieves on "silver bicycles" approached a 21-year-old man at East 10th Street and University Place around 12:40 a.m. Monday morning, told him they had a gun, and robbed him of his money and other items, DNAinfo reports. We kindly ask DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan for several thousands of gallons of paint thinner, so that we may erase those ghastly bike lanes ourselves on bended knee. more ›

The DOT's 4th annual Summer Streets initiative—which clears nearly seven miles of Manhattan streets of cars for 3 consecutive Saturdays—began today at 7 a.m. and ended at 1 p.m. Photographic evidence doesn't appear to confirm the theory that it's a "bikes-only affair." In fact, there were plenty of non-terrorists enjoying horn-free thoroughfares and pop-up sandboxes. Summer Streets will return next Saturday. more ›

Stolen bikes are nothing new, but a bikejacking in broad daylight on the Upper West Side? We haven't heard about that kind of brazen crime in some time. And yet today My Upper West has a story on just such a theft. Bikers? Watch out for suspicious pedestrians standing in the middle of the road! more ›

A cyclist was struck and killed by a truck at the intersection of Gardner & Metropolitan Avenues yesterday morning around 8:30 a.m. Witnesses told police that the 29-year-old man attempted to pass the truck making a right onto Gardner, when the truck's bumper hit the bike's front wheel, sending the man under the vehicle, where he was killed instantly. "The bike was flying along and tried to cheat around the truck," a witness told the Daily News, "His skull was crushed." Police viewed surveillance video of the accident said that no charges will be filed against the driver, as the cyclist was at fault. more ›

Harlem—so hot right now! So hot that you will soon have the privilege of rolling up your pantleg to discover all of the neighborhood's hidden treasures via a good old-fashioned velocipede; after, that is, you've plunked down $34 for a steak at celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson's restaurant Red Rooster Harlem. more ›

The Wall Street Journal may have announced earlier this summer that the bikes have won but don't tell that to the paper's scruffy sibling the Post. That tabloid, like some Upper East Side community boards, thinks the battle is still on and today anti-bicycle zealot Steve Cuozzo has posted another report from the front line: Broadway between Columbus Circle and Times Square, where the bike lanes are supposedly murdering businesses. more ›

Bicycles are great and all but baskets looks a little silly and in this heat backpacks just mean more back sweat. So what to do when you want to go for a ride but don't want to leave your bottle of red behind? There's an Etsy shop for that. more ›

Marilyn Dershowitz, sister-in-law to famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, was killed in a cycling accident yesterday afternoon as she rode through a dark stretch of road underneath a US Mail sorting plant. The 68-year-old was riding behind her husband Nathan Dershowitz, who told DNAinfo, "She waited for the light and I made the light and was riding slowly. When she didn't come, I saw her down and people around her." She was hit by a 7-ton truck, and though she was wearing a helmet, died shortly after being transported to Bellevue Hospital. The driver of the truck, a postal employee for 24 years, was unaware that he hit anyone until authorities tracked him down. more ›