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Rolling Orange bike shop

Rolling Orange bike shop opened last month in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn. (269 Baltic Street)

Opened by Ad Hereijgers, this is part of a growing movement of retail which sells Dutch Bicycles and encourages more people to use bicycles as transport for their daily lives.

They sell two groups of bikes: [...]

Video about Bowery Lane Bicycles.

Here is a video from the Wall Street Journal, who is realizing that bicycles are “good business.” It’s the story of Manhattan’s new bike building operation, Bowery Lane Bicycles.

From their site:

Bowery Lane Bicycles are built in Queens, N.Y., and sold to folks looking for a leisurely ride, and retails stores [...]

New Bike Shop in Park Slope

What I don’t suggest doing this weekend:

But what you might want to do is check out this new bike shop which is opening up this evening. Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009 Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm Location: Brooklyn Bicycles Street: 375 9th Street at 6th Ave City/Town: Park Slope, NY (people’s republic of [...]

Boston Spotlight

There’s a new bike shop open in Sommerville, Mass. called Open. Located at the corner of Washington St. and Hawkins St. in Union Square, Summerville, Massachusetts. Here are some pictures of the new store. Open is having its Grand Opening this Saturday the 11th. Trying to open themselves up to the local community. They’ve [...]

Spring is sprung…head over to Brooklyn Bike and Board.

We got a brief taste of good weather this Sunday and temperatures peaked up into a nice level of “take your bike out from the moth balls and see if you can get a tune up.” I noticed a small crowd had gathered near the Mom and Pop bike shop near my apartment in [...]

hmmm, sounds like a fake.

In case you were loosing any sleep over this: According to Joshua over at Openbicycle.com this Youtube video I posted about a kinetic sculpture in Budapest is only a concept. It was a nice editing job.

But… Open Bicycle is not a fake and neither is this video of wall riding… Open Bicycle Opening [...]

New Bike Shop in Harlem

There’s a new bike shop in town…uptown.

Modsquad Cycles 2119 Frederick Douglass Blvd New York, NY 10026 (212) 865-5050

a message from the owners:

Harlem has a new bike shop located at 2119 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (btwn 114th and 115th). Owned and operated by Harlem resident and bike enthusiast, Oye Carr. MODSquad [...]