The weather was exquisite for National Bike to Work Day today, and this morning Transportation Alternatives co-hosted nine pit stops across the five boroughs to support bike commuters with breakfast, commuter kits, civic-cycling guides and friendly advice about two-wheeled commuting. Did you get any swag? Over at the Hudson River Greenway they were making bike-powered smoothies! For the Bike From Work part of the day it'd be cool if they mixed up some bike-powered Pina Coladas. more ›

Tomorrow is National Bike to Work Day, and to help encourage New Yorkers to pedal to their jobs, Transportation Alternatives is co-hosting nine pit stops across the five boroughs to support bike commuters with breakfast, commuter kits, civic-cycling guides and friendly advice about two-wheeled commuting. (See a list of all the locations below.) Health Commissioner Thomas Farley will be biking from Park Slope to Times Square for a press conference with other officials in Times Square tomorrow morning—which is a big step for him, because last year he said he didn't feel safe riding in Manhattan. But yesterday he proved that he's pretty much ready to tall bike joust at the next Bike Kill. more ›

NYC's DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan may be beloved by cycling enthusiasts for her radical expansion of the city's bike lanes, but to critics like Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, she's "an anti-car extremist. It's kind of easy for Ms. Sadik-Khan to be holier than thou and tell people they have no business driving. She may live down the block from the subway station—but most people don't." And John Liu, the City Council member from Queens who chairs the council’s Transportation Committee, says her agenda comes with "a sense of the elite telling the everyday people what’s good for them, and that’s simply not appreciated. I think it can no longer be ignored, the demographic groups calling for these changes versus the demographic groups that protest." more ›

Made almost entirely out of bike parts found in the streets of NYC, the Skybike is the invention of Mario Diamantis, a grad student in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Designed to evoke the perspective of riding through the air, Skybike straps the rider to the frame upside down at a 45 degree angle. Here's video of a recent demonstration, via Animal New York: more ›