The large information yesterday was in fact the capturing 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 keeping 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 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 photograph:
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 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, although it turned out to not be a Citi Bike, if I had been a politician lobbying for town to subsidize the system, I in all probability wouldn’t have tweeted about it whereas all that was happening:
Simply this yr, Lyft has elevated the value of CitiBike twice.
It’s time for NYC to put money into bike share and make it a lot for extra reasonably priced — identical to we put money into 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 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–as a substitute, switch free of charge to the closest Citi Bike.” (I’m certain this is able to give the urbanists boners, but it surely’s not likely truthful to regular individuals.) Nonetheless, I might completely help 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 vehicles. It solely appears truthful.
Within the meantime, whereas I actually don’t have anything to cover, good luck monitoring me on my analog vintage:
Additional to yesterday’s publish relating to Campagnolo, the Cervino is supplied with the Tremendous File elements 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 might match cable stops on the aero shifter mount and the cables themselves…
…I don’t suppose there can be something to cease you from placing the newest Tremendous File on this 42 year-old bicycle. (Aside from 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 drawback:
This isn’t to say I’m planning on modernizing the Cervino. Certainly, the truth that it’s principally the Platonic best of the traditional 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, one of the best ways to “modernize” the Cervino can 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 truth: the low gear on the Cervino is roughly the center gear on the Roaduno:
Consequently, regardless of the 6×2 configuration, the Cervino virtually feels extra “singlespeedy” than the Roaduno does. and I in all probability hassle to shift it about as usually.
Lastly, along with fleeing from assassinations, bicycles are additionally fairly useful for waging warfare:
Although even in that context they’re not taken significantly:
Whether or not you’re driving a Hyundai or a tank, there’s no avoiding getting caught behind a bicycle owner.
