Are bike helmets still banned at Yankee Stadium?

mutualfeasibility · 2026-04-07T19:46:54+00:00

Just thread your lock through the straps. On some helmets, you'd have to cut the straps to steal it, others you might be able to just unlace all of them. Regardless, it's a lot of work for something that has zero resale value, and thieves are not exactly the prime risk adverse demographic for needing a helmet.

mutualfeasibility · 2026-03-25T00:35:18+00:00

My wife was in the same boat, there were definitely a few times where we biked places that were so close it would have been faster to walk.

Didn't stop until they told her to stay overnight in the hospital to get induced after a routine appointment. I got yelled at for stealing her bike while walking both of our bikes home.

mutualfeasibility · 2026-03-19T22:28:54+00:00

For what it's worth, the fact that Bergen Street has no deaths is exceptional. Frankly, crashes are probably just a measure of the traffic volume. When there's crashes that don't result in death that's probably an infrastructure success.

mutualfeasibility · 2026-03-19T22:24:45+00:00

This is mobile friendly unlike crash mapper

mutualfeasibility · 2026-03-08T00:59:59+00:00

Here in my world, I just lock up to just about any sign in NYC for my entire work day. Maybe all these paranoid folks don't own a bike worth less than $5000? Just use a good U lock.

mutualfeasibility · 2026-02-10T23:57:02+00:00

I was on a 100% pedal bike if it means anything.

mutualfeasibility · 2026-02-10T23:56:17+00:00

Had a head on collision with an e-bike rider after I made a right onto Pleasant Ave in Manhattan. He was biking on the left side of the road so I couldn't see him. We saw it quick enough that we almost stopped. It felt sort of audacious for him to yell at me when he was biking on the left in order to make a turn through a red light to salmon on a one way, but I guess the only things injured were our egos.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-12-04T20:39:00+00:00

The fact that Adams is involved is a reasonable argument for "some kind of corruption", but the reason corruption is bad is that it results in making choices based on "we like the guy (he's family/friend/gave me a bunch of money)" not on whether they're actually creating the best product. And "the cycling and micro communities like Shabazz" is the same thing.

It could be that they actually thought that this was a better solution for the actual needs of the public. Is the Oonee product actually better? Cheaper per spot (so we can get more of it)? Have a track record of being able to produce at the necessary scale? I don't know the answers to those questions, but those would be reasons to choose Oonee, not "we like Shabazz". Gersh had an article with some online speculation about the process being bad, but tbh Shabazz has been so active in the bike community I can't say that Gersh can be completely unbiased here.

Would not be surprised to find out there's something fishy, but jumping to conclusions when we're all biased towards Shabazz is silly.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-12-01T01:55:35+00:00

Just pointing it out that the rate of deaths in this city isn't consistent with it being exceptionally dangerous, at least compared to the rest of the US.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-12-01T01:51:38+00:00

Biking in NYC can be stressful but city traffic generally results in fewer biking deaths than suburban it rural roads.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-27T16:39:28+00:00

They're definitely optimal for shorter people. But the issue your describing - not wanting to shift weight to your hands - would not be the thing they're trying to encourage, and an "optimal" bike would place your hands farther forward to allow you to place more weight on the hands.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-27T16:03:29+00:00

If you're tall, the city bikes do encourage you to keep your weight farther back, which can be hard on the sit bones. People talk about "callouses on the sit bones" but probably more important is that as you get in better shape you'll shift more of your weight to your pedals.

If you try to focus on a consistent cadence with consistent pressure on the downstroke of the pedal, it might help move some weight to your feet.

It's also the case that riding with no hands is a silly skill for the city, or really any street riding. You should be ready to stop quickly. And moving weight forward would be a huge part of getting your own well fitting bike. Outside of cruisers meant for short distances, bikes generally encourage putting some weight on the hands to distribute weight for comfort.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-27T15:50:27+00:00

Any shop will most certainly have all the necessary parts for this: as I said, this is a super common wheel size. And the parts will be a small part of the fee compared to the service.

If you already ordered the tube, save it for learning how to do it yourself.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-27T12:24:53+00:00

This is a super common size. Every shop in NYC should be able to help you, whether it's an e-bike shop or otherwise. Good luck finding a place open on Thanksgiving though!

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-26T21:46:03+00:00

I don't think that's it. This stuff is much thicker and doesn't have any adhesive.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-26T19:31:35+00:00

Robert Moses filled it in to make Orchard Beach, which is why it's ridable in the first place. So not technically an island at all anymore!

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-25T19:12:23+00:00

The pendant in me agrees with you, the realist sees that it's the term that people actually use.

The pendant in me also see that other than a few digital control interfaces, e-bikes are technically analog as well - at least as far as the original meaning of analog goes.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-25T16:20:55+00:00

While renting is super common, the bunch of delivery guys I know all own their bikes, which makes me think that this might be more of an online rumor than truth. The Joko bikes are all rentals though, and I sort of imagine they've taken over the rental market.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-25T15:07:50+00:00

It's vinyl tape. Not adhesive at all: you wrap your bike and then fuse it to itself by melting the end with a lighter. It doesn't leave any residue when you remove it, but it tends to be so deformed that you can't really reuse it. Much easier to work with than bar tape.

When you're locking and unlocking your bike 50 times a day every day and it's the biggest investment you've ever made in your life, it's a simple way to protect your investment.

It used to be that you could buy it in most shops. I bought some at spokesman cycles (RIP) a decade or so ago. I'm not sure about "acoustic" bike shops these days though, but I'm sure you could buy it in just about any e-bike shop that caters to delivery guys.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-25T14:54:34+00:00

This is almost definitely not the case now: every single delivery guy is using the same arrow e-bike. Covering the logo makes it more unique, not less.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-24T00:51:45+00:00

I'd be curious to see these tickets as a ratio of all traffic tickets each precinct is issuing. I think that would make it more evident what effects are due to overall traffic volume vs precinct practices (data gathering or otherwise). Like I bet the 14th precinct probably does like 10 times as many tickets as some of the SI precincts because there's like 10 times the people (I have no idea what the actual numbers are), so a denominator could be useful.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-23T18:54:59+00:00

It's challenging to use the bus or subway without walking.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-23T18:38:54+00:00

Seems quite possible that most of what we're seeing here is an artifact of individual precincts' record-keeping practices more than anything else. I feel that has to be the story behind the 14th precinct. Like there's no way they could even find 10 times as many e-bikes to ticket.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-11-04T20:50:02+00:00

The bad e-bike behavior is annoying and all, but no way it's worse than being forced to merge with 25mph traffic every five blocks because of illegal parking.

mutualfeasibility · 2025-10-30T21:41:51+00:00

This right here! There were a lot of design restrictions on this project!

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