The massive information yesterday was after all the capturing in Manhattan, with preliminary stories indicating that the suspect fled on a Citi Bike, and newbie sleuths have 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 line with police.
I occur to constantly scrape Citibike knowledge each minute, so I can see the place particular person bikes go.
The one northbound Citibike to depart inside…
— Riley Walz (@rtwlz) December 4, 2024
My first thought was that the bicycle didn’t look like a Citi Bike, although it was arduous to make certain from the grainy picture:
These are photographs of the person sought in connection to this investigation. If anybody has info 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
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 any case:
Let that be a lesson to everybody about speeding 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 have 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 12 months, 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 — identical 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 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 operating between 207th Road and thirty fourth Road–in its place, switch at no cost to the closest Citi Bike.” (I’m positive this may give the urbanists boners, but it surely’s not likely truthful to regular individuals.) Nonetheless, I might 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 truthful.
Within the meantime, whereas I personally don’t have anything to cover, good luck monitoring me on my analog vintage:
Additional to yesterday’s put up relating to Campagnolo, the Cervino is provided with the Tremendous File parts of the period:
And extremely they nonetheless supply a mechanical rim brake Tremendous File group right now–although it bears little resemblance to its forebear:
However, assuming you may 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 believe 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 splendid of the basic street bike (with the potential exception of the Nishiki decals) is the entire level:
However I may if I wished, which is reassuring. Actually although, the easiest way 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 basic street bike with out additionally reconciling your self to that steep basic street bike gearing?
Enjoyable truth: the low gear on the Cervino is roughly the center gear on the Roaduno:
Because of this, 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 typically.
Lastly, along with fleeing from assassinations, bicycles are additionally fairly useful for waging struggle:
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 bike owner.
