The massive information yesterday was in fact the taking pictures in Manhattan, with preliminary experiences indicating that the suspect fled on a Citi Bike, and beginner 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 constantly scrape Citibike information 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 arduous to make certain from the grainy picture:
These are photos of the person sought in connection to this investigation. If anybody has info as to the id or location of this particular person please contact @NYPDTips at 1(800)577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/sm2GuEOYk1
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) December 4, 2024
Specifically, 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, though it turned out to not be a Citi Bike, if I had been a politician lobbying for the town to subsidize the system, I most likely wouldn’t have tweeted about it whereas all that was happening:
Simply this 12 months, Lyft has elevated the value of CitiBike twice.
It’s time for NYC to spend money on bike share and make it a lot for extra reasonably priced — identical to we spend money on each different type of public transit.https://t.co/a55XqZTWmN
— Lincoln Restler (@LincolnRestler) December 4, 2024
As for the town subsidizing Citi Bike, I used to assume they need to do it, however not likely anymore. If nothing else, treating bike share as public transportation opens the door to eventualities like: “A trains are usually not working between 207th Avenue and thirty fourth Avenue–instead, switch totally free to the closest Citi Bike.” (I’m certain this is able to give the urbanists boners, but it surely’s not likely honest to regular individuals.) Nonetheless, I’d completely assist the 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 the town with vehicles. 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 publish concerning Campagnolo, the Cervino is supplied with the Tremendous File elements of the period:
And extremely they nonetheless provide a mechanical rim brake Tremendous File group at the moment–although it bears little resemblance to its forebear:
Nonetheless, assuming you can match cable stops on the aero shifter mount and the cables themselves…
…I don’t assume there could be something to cease you from placing the newest Tremendous File on this 42 year-old bicycle. (Aside from aesthetic issues, that’s.) I imply sure, you’d want a 12-speed hub too, however I feel that also runs on a 130mm wheel, and I’ve used these in there with no drawback:
This isn’t to say I’m planning on modernizing the Cervino. Certainly, the truth that it’s principally the Platonic very best of the traditional street 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 best ways to “modernize” the Cervino could be to do it up with fashionable 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 toes to a traditional street bike with out additionally reconciling your self to that steep traditional street bike gearing?
Enjoyable reality: the low gear on the Cervino is roughly the center gear on the Roaduno:
Consequently, regardless of the 6×2 configuration, the Cervino nearly feels extra “singlespeedy” than the Roaduno does. and I most likely hassle to shift it about as usually.
Lastly, along with fleeing from assassinations, bicycles are additionally fairly useful for waging conflict:
Although even in that context they’re not taken severely:
Whether or not you’re driving a Hyundai or a tank, there’s no avoiding getting caught behind a bicycle owner.