skateboarding across houston st
skating across houston st in manhattan
July 27th, 2011
Browsing .
wandering manhattan in the rain
here are some shots from wandering manhattan on a rainy day. I was feeling kind of ill so I kept it mellow.
“moustache man” strikes again. love it.
(since then he has been arrested .. sadface)
yarnbombing a trike. that did not look easy.
chairs outside of the adidas store in soho
running from the thunderstorm
I happened to be on the high line when a thunderstorm hit. scary clouds loomed over hoboken until suddenly the temperature dropped 20 degrees and the full-on thunderstorm hit.
I wandered chelsea a bit.
I saw this sad spectacle of a bike. everything had been stripped except for the crankset, saddle, and brake posts. is this proof that using an old chain to secure your saddle works?
I hopped back on the high line.
drinking hearts
loved the lighting here
July 21st, 2011
graph: when are bikes faster than airplanes
After a group of cyclists (and someone on public transit and a rollerblader) beat a jetblue plane from burbank to long beach this past weekend during carmageddon, Nadia Korovina did a little analysis on Bike Commute News and came up with a simple equation to find the maximum distance at which traveling by bike is faster than traveling by plane:
(Nadia, is that LaTeX? I’m impressed)
In the blog post, Nadia and Jordan found that the maximum distance where a bike is faster than a plane, assuming a 2.5 hour delay (including time standing in line, security, waiting, transport to and from the airport), 25mph average cyclist speed (those @wolfpackhustle guys can hustle), and an airplane speed of 500mph.
Some commenters wondered how things would work out for someone who rides a bit slower, and someone else asked about graphs.
so, here you go:
A bike traveling at 20mph would travel 52.1 miles before being passed by the jet. At 15mph, this distance is 36.7 miles, at 12.5mph, this distance is 32.1 miles, and at 10mph, this distance is 25.5 miles. The jetblue thing was definitely a bit of a stunt – I don’t think many people would expect a plane to be too efficient for a 40-mile commute, but this whole #flightvsbike thing goes a long way in showing the viability of using a bike for an everyday trip. good work, all.
July 19th, 2011
Third Rail Coffee and Gus
friendly baristas at third rail coffee
I had a shot of intelligentsia’s black cat
Gus, a harlequin great dame
July 18th, 2011
