The large information yesterday was after all the capturing in Manhattan, with preliminary studies indicating that the suspect fled on a Citi Bike, and newbie sleuths had been shortly on the case:
I’m pretty assured of the place the United Healthcare murderer escaped to. He escaped on an electrical Citibike, in accordance with police.
I occur to repeatedly scrape Citibike knowledge each minute, so I can see the place particular person bikes go.
The one northbound Citibike to go away inside…
— Riley Walz (@rtwlz) December 4, 2024
My first thought was that the bicycle didn’t seem like a Citi Bike, although it was onerous to make certain from the grainy picture:
These are pictures of the person sought in connection to this investigation. If anybody has data as to the identification or location of this particular person please contact @NYPDTips at 1(800)577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/sm2GuEOYk1
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) December 4, 2024
Particularly, the bike pictured seemed to be lacking the attribute skirt guard discovered over the rear wheel of each common and electrified Citi Bikes:
And certainly by that night it turned out to not be a Citi Bike in spite of everything:
Let that be a lesson to everybody about dashing to judgement, although I’m now going to go forward and assume it was a carbon fiber gravel bike till I hear in any other case.
Additionally, despite the fact that it turned out to not be a Citi Bike, if I had been a politician lobbying for town to subsidize the system, I most likely wouldn’t have tweeted about it whereas all that was occurring:
Simply this yr, Lyft has elevated the worth of CitiBike twice.
It’s time for NYC to spend money on bike share and make it a lot for extra reasonably priced — similar to we spend money on each different type of public transit.https://t.co/a55XqZTWmN
— Lincoln Restler (@LincolnRestler) December 4, 2024
As for town subsidizing Citi Bike, I used to suppose they need to do it, however probably not anymore. If nothing else, treating bike share as public transportation opens the door to eventualities like: “A trains aren’t working between 207th Road and thirty fourth Road–as a substitute, switch without cost to the closest Citi Bike.” (I’m certain this is able to give the urbanists boners, nevertheless it’s probably not honest to regular individuals.) Nonetheless, I’d completely assist town requiring Citi Bike’s proprietor, Lyft, to offer its bike share service citywide utterly freed from cost in change for permitting them to flood town with automobiles. It solely appears honest.
Within the meantime, whereas I personally don’t have anything to cover, good luck monitoring me on my analog vintage:
Additional to yesterday’s submit concerning Campagnolo, the Cervino is supplied with the Tremendous Document elements of the period:
And extremely they nonetheless supply a mechanical rim brake Tremendous Document group at this time–although it bears little resemblance to its forebear:
Nonetheless, assuming you might match cable stops on the aero shifter mount and the cables themselves…
…I don’t suppose there could be something to cease you from placing the newest Tremendous Document on this 42 year-old bicycle. (Other than aesthetic concerns, that’s.) I imply sure, you’d want a 12-speed hub too, however I believe that also runs on a 130mm wheel, and I’ve used these in there with no downside:
This isn’t to say I’m planning on modernizing the Cervino. Certainly, the truth that it’s mainly the Platonic excellent of the basic highway bike (with the attainable exception of the Nishiki decals) is the entire level:
However I might if I needed, which is reassuring. Actually although, one of the simplest ways to “modernize” the Cervino could be to do it up with trendy friction shifters and wide-range gearing. However I’ve different bikes for that, and what’s the purpose of gluing in your tires and strapping your ft to a basic highway bike with out additionally reconciling your self to that steep basic highway bike gearing?
Enjoyable truth: the low gear on the Cervino is roughly the center gear on the Roaduno:
In consequence, regardless of the 6×2 configuration, the Cervino nearly feels extra “singlespeedy” than the Roaduno does. and I most likely trouble to shift it about as usually.
Lastly, along with fleeing from assassinations, bicycles are additionally fairly helpful for waging conflict:
Although even in that context they’re not taken critically:
Whether or not you’re driving a Hyundai or a tank, there’s no avoiding getting caught behind a bicycle owner.
