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The new Dutch bike shop on the block Adeline Adeline (147 Reade Street-NYC) is having a sale. See.
Here are some cool deals on cool gear for you and your bike:
Labor Day Sales Event
Dear friends and neighbors,
Hello from Adeline Adeline! We’ve come a long way from our inaugural launch in May: bringing a spectrum of classic bicycles overseas, adding scores of stylish new baskets, totes, and accessories to our roster, and tuning up our customers’ rides to make sure they run the very best.
Of course, our summer success is all thanks to YOU, our savvy customers. Thank you for making this a season to remember—hopefully it was for you as well.
While we all gear up for back-to-school and harvests o’plenty at the greenmarket, we at Adeline Adeline are making room on our shelves for a few exciting new seasonal surprises–and what better way to do it than our first-ever sale?
This Labor Day weekend, September 3-5, visit our location at 147 Reade Street in New York City and take a peek at some of our fantastic products at a healthy 15% discount. Interested? Here’s a glimpse of what we have to offer:
Batavus Breukelen and Breukelen Step-Thru, $1035
Stainless Steel Disc Lock, $11.90
Basil Kavan II Pannier, $191.25
Soma Front Alloy Rack, $33.98
ThinkSport Sunscreen, $12.00
Minnehaha Medium Saddlebag, $55.25
Wire Mesh Basket (Black or Silver ), $10.20
Lezyne Alloy Patch Kits and Knog Patch Kits, $8.50
Minoura Bottle Cage Mounts (Handlebar or Seatpost), $9.35
Trinity Helmet, $59.50
Predator and selected Nutcase Helmets, $34.00
Bensimon Lacet and Elastique Shoes, $46.75
FastRider Shopper Deluxe pannier, $59.77
FastRider Kidshopper Luxe pannier, $89.66
Sunlite Wire Basket with Handle, $45.89
White Lift-Off Front Basket, $8.93
Kryptonite Fahgettaboudit, $115.00
Sunlite Round Heavy-Duty Mirror, $9.16
Dimension Bike Handle, $25.49
Stay tuned to get the inside scoop on more sales and fantastic new products. Become a fan of Adeline Adeline on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter at @AdelineNYC.
Which reminds me, the Daily News did an interview with Adeline’s top mechanic, Frank Wruk. Yes, not just a place for fancy dutch bikes and helmets, Adeline Adeline is also a full service bike shop.
Pedal pusher: City spokes man spreads the word on bike repairs
By Nicole Lyn Pesce
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, August 29th 2010, 4:00 AM
The Big Apple belongs to the bicycles. According to Transportation Alternatives, cycling is the fastest-growing way to get around town — and the city’s new $1 bicycle parking stations are making NYC even more bike-friendly. Inspired to spin your wheels? Tribeca mechanic and bike enthusiast Frank Wruk shares his tricks of the trade to ensure everyone from the training-wheels set to daredevil stuntmasters gets a smooth ride.
Where did you learn to build and fix bikes?
I grew up riding BMX bicycles, and I would ride them very hard and break them. So I would have to go and buy new parts, and I just kind of learned to install them myself and make the bikes work better. I love tuning bikes and making them roll for as long as they can.
What kind of damage do bikes in the Big Apple suffer most?
Flat tires are the most common repairs. In the city, the wheels take the most beating. There are so many potholes, cracks in the road, sidewalk aprons, things like that. In New York, we also have lots of stop-and-go traffic, so the brakes go through a lot of wear and tear, too.
Read the rest of the interview: here.
Everyone’s favorite NYC bike swap meet is coming back for the fall.
From their site:
Join us at The Old Stone House at Washington Park for New York’s only bi-annual cycling flea market.
The event will be held in the park, on Fifth Avenue between fourth and fifth streets, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, one of the epicenters of bicycle commuting in New York City.
At this one day only event, vendors will be on hand to sell bicycles, bicycle components and cycling accessories to the public. Good deals abound as do good times! Come down between 10AM and 4PM and remember, the early bird gets the worm!
As the Jumble winds down, an outdoor dance party DJ’d by JStacher and Dirty Finger will kick off till about 8PM when Bike Shorts will begin their outdoor short film festival.
WHEN: 10:00am – 9:00pm, Sunday, September 12, 2010
Jumble – 10AM – 4PM
Dance Party – 4PM – 8PM
Bike Shorts, short films about the bike – 8PM 9PM
WHERE: 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (718) 768-3195
More info: nybikejumble.com
December 4th, 2010. NYC. Benefit for the New York Bike Messenger Foundation. Coming soon.
Velojoy.com alerted me that summer is fading fast. She posted some September rides you might want to check out including the New York Cycle Club’s Escape from New York.
Tomorrow starts the three day festivities of…
There is a kick off event with a ride across the Brooklyn Bridge, around Prospect Park and then onto Coney Island. Find out more on their website:
www.nycunifest.com.
Also there is an article on AOL news.
Unicyclists to Roll Over New York City
by: Marc Hartzman
(Sept. 2) — New York City has given a big boost to bicyclists in recent years by installing hundreds of bike racks and some 200 miles of bike lanes. Now the bike’s quirky one-wheel cousin wants some love, too.
With this weekend’s first annual NYC Unicycle Festival, it gets plenty of it.
The three-day event is being organized by the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and begins Friday with a 13-mile ride beginning at the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge and finishing on the Coney Island boardwalk. Approximately 30 riders are expected to make the trek. Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz, has proclaimed it Brooklyn Unicycle Day.
Read more here.
No wonder everyone’s been so pissed off.
8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City A Horrible Place To Live
‘We’re Getting The Hell Out Of This Sewer,’ Entire Populace Reports
September 2, 2010 | ISSUE 46•35
NEW YORK—At 4:32 p.m. Tuesday, every single resident of New York City decided to evacuate the famed metropolis, having realized it was nothing more than a massive, trash-ridden hellhole that slowly sucks the life out of every one of its inhabitants.
With audible murmurs of “This is no way to live,” “What the hell am I doing here—I hate it here,” and “Fuck this place. Fuck this horrible place,” all 8.4 million citizens in each of the five boroughs packed up their belongings and told reporters they would rather blow their brains out with a shotgun than spend another waking moment in this festering cesspool of filth and scum and sadness.
By 5:15 p.m. there was gridlock traffic on the outbound sides of the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, and the area’s three major airports were flooded with New Yorkers, all of whom said they wanted to go anyplace where the pressure of 20 million tons of concrete wasn’t constantly suffocating them.
Read more from this Onion piece, here.
Just want to give a warm hello to my newest sponsor, Timbuk2 bags.
Born out of a garage in San Francisco in 1989, Timbuk2 pioneered the messenger bag. Since that time they have seen tremendous growth, but still haven’t forgotten their modest, hardworking, true tested, bike messenger roots. They make products that are good-looking, tough-as-hell that you can truly make your own.
And you can use them to carry, what I hope will be my next sponsor.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Wow, sometimes my ranting gets noticed…
The Biking Boom Breeds Discontent
By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF, August 30th, 2009
New York Times Green Blog
Biking is booming in New York City, with the number of daily cyclists rising to an average of 236,000 in 2009, up 26 percent from 2008, according to statistics compiled by Transportation Alternatives, a pro-biking nonprofit group.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other city leaders have praised the increase in cycling for reducing congestion and pollution and making the city streets safer overall. To accommodate the surge in bike commuters, the city has installed hundreds of bike racks and roughly 200 miles of new bike lanes in the past three years, with plans for future expansion.
Yet according to a recent weeklong investigative series by Tony Aiello, a reporter with New York City’s WCBS-TV (Channel 2), the cycling boom is breeding discontent. Titled “Bike Bedlam,” the segments turned a critical eye on reckless riders who flouted traffic laws, and profiled a young father who was killed by a cyclist riding the wrong way on a one-way street in Midtown Manhattan. A former bike shop owner declared that cyclists were “way out of control.”
The reaction of the New York City biking community was mixed, with some cycling bloggers decrying the series for perceived sensationalism, while others admitting that too many cyclists were, in fact, ignoring traffic laws, often flagrantly.
“Cyclists, clean up your freaking act,” wrote Jen Benepe, a cycling blogger.
The Web site BikeBlogNYC urged “fellow cyclists” to heed the laws of the road. “Take those flip-flops off, put down that cellphone, put on a helmet, ride in the correct direction and pay attention,” read a recent post that, at the same time, mocked the WCBS series as sensationalist.
Read more here.
Remember my friend Jonathan who got hit by a car back in May?
He’s BACK!!
The Doctor said he could ride again, and I was proud to be on his first ride back into Brooklyn.
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