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"The Greatest Cycling Manual Ever Written"--Eben Weiss, author of "Bike Snob"
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- BikeSnobNYC
- While I love cycling and embrace it in all its forms, I'm also extremely critical. So I present to you my venting for your amusement and betterment. No offense meant to the critiqued. Always keep riding!
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Podium!
Skip the airport and just pedal the plane.
I also want to see better access to AMTRAK train stations. In addition to secure bike parking areas outside stations, I would love to see better access for bikes on trains. I rode to Penn station, and boxed my bike up, but checking a bike as boxed luggage is much more involved then just hanging it on a hook. If you could get on and off of AMTRAK with a ready to ride bike at almost any station, that would open up amazing possibilities, (as opposed to the few stops that offer luggage service, then unboxing a bike).
As of 2017, there was talk of adding bike hooks on all trains, but I don't know if talk had turned to action.
NYCHighwheeler
Which material?
"Aerospace-grade Titanium"
That link was supposed to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCready_Gossamer_Albatross
When airport commuting don't wear a helmet, wear a beanie with a propeller that spins in the wind.
My next air travel will be in early November, so my main concern up here in the 518 is the fact that there could be six inches of snow on the ground when I get back. So far, I've been pretty happy with the put-your-bike-on-the-Amtrak option, but that's obviously destination and time limited.
weed.
You are a brave soul, especially with the "bike lane" disappearing, as you put it, but now I want to try it sometime.
Is it just me or are more apartments in the city now adding or advertising bike rooms?
You need to curate your airplane bicycle to match the airplane you'll be flying in. Crabon for the Dreamliner 787; aerospace-grade aluminum for a 737; wood for a Wright Flyer.
I've flown a few times, but never commercial. Bell H-13, L-5, L-7, C-54 cargo version, CH-47 Chinook, C-54 passenger version. Each time was great.
But to deal with airport traffic, the TSA gropers, then to be stuffed into an aluminum tube with a bunch of smelly drunks? Pass. I'd sooner donate a kidney.
Welcome to the club!! It is a glorious ride. I need to breathe new life into my #Bike2LGA campaign!
VFR or IFR on ride to airport?
I used to ride IFR (speed, distance, heart rate, cadence, power meter etc.), now I ride VFR - wrist watch only.
Tan Tenovo, just curious: were the racks indoor or otherwise weather-protected?
...TanT, you gotta increase the smugness quotient by taking your bike with you... unfurling it at the destination airport, and riding from there.
...That could be another 20-30 miles in your legs, and possibly another C-note in your pocket... and your smugness would be uncontainable.
...I've done it a few times... and I can tell you... you never get over yourself for it.
Fantastic that BSNYC cycled to LGA! Next time, consider the Port Morris BX connector bridge to Randall's island to Queens span triboro -- the 59th st bridge seems considerably out of the way. Keep pedaling all : )
Allez allez allez! Premiere du malloit a aerodrome! A soft-sided MLC (Patagucci rules this luggage category) pretty much fits in a Wald giant delivery basket, just saying.
Well, the Google bike commute route from SF actually goes right through the San Francisco airport. But I would worry about leaving the bike there. Maybe that would be a factor in choosing the right bike?
HDEB,
I don't like riding over the Triboro, I don't like heights and the low guardrail freaks me out. (Plus I don't want to get a ticket.)
--Tan Tenovo
Last I heard, bikes are prohibited on the long boring road out to the Denver (airline serviced) airport. You should be chartering or flying your own plane. Plus it's very doable, getting to airports that handle General Aviation aircraft. I used to haul a Vitus road bike around in a French built Socata Trinidad (flew it myself) when I lived in the Bay Area.
Oh man, last place again! Bike friendly airports would be nice - and I'm sure they would somehow find a way to charge a ton for bike parking too.
Airport bike? When my wife was growing up in Ferrara, Italy she had 5 bikes, one of which was used exclusively for riding to the railway station. We are currently in Ferrara where yesterday I got to ride a 1939 Bianchi around the city walls.
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