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I have a bicycle at home but it’s been sitting along the wall for almost a decade now as I got tired of broken spokes. Ever since I got that bike it was in the shop for spoke repairs – I did some myself but some are quite hard to repair on that bike. A couple other parts and the derailer are broken now. It probably could be rebuilt for not that much money, but I can’t have it being junker that breaks down all of the time.

I should think about getting a bicycle now, especially if I am thinking about going without a car next year. I should see how practical it is to get around town on a bicycle, along with use of public transit. It would save so much money if I could go a few years without a car, and only rent one during vacations. It would improve my health, burn calories and let me learn more about my community. Not to mention really lower my carbon footprint!

I’ve started looking at Facebook at people selling bicycles. Used bicycles aren’t particularly expensive, although I am not sure what kind of bicycle I would want to get. Reliablity has to be top priority, and the ability to mount a basket on it for carrying supplies like groceries home from the store. I don’t mind doing maintenance on my bicycle, but it can’t be regularly breaking down when I’m 10 or 20 miles away from home — especially if it’s my primary way to get around town.

If I can’t get any use out of the old bicycle, I am thinking I could donate it to Troy Bicycle Rescue or some other group that restores bicycles for community use.

Why the bicycle’s future looks bright – BBC News

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Why the bicycle’s future looks bright – BBC News

One autumn day in 1865, two men sat in a tavern in Ansonia, Connecticut, calming their nerves with a few stiff drinks.

They had been riding a wagon down a nearby hill when they heard a blood-curdling scream from behind them. What appeared to be the devil himself - with the head of a man and the body of some unknown creature - was flying down the hill towards them, skimming low over the ground.

They whipped their horses and fled, while the devil plunged off the road and into a flooded ditch.

Imagine their fear when the devil himself then came over to introduce himself: the dark-haired Frenchman was bleeding and soaking wet. His name was Pierre Lallement.

The young mechanic had been in the United States for a few months, and had brought with him from France a machine of his own devising - a pedal-cranked, two wheeled construction he called a "velocipede". We would call it a bicycle.

April 3, 2018 10:14 pm Update

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I bet they could open the Adirondack Northway to bicyclists from Lake George to Peru for only a few million in signage and it could bring in tens in millions in tourism dollars.

I guess there is a few substandard bridges that would have to replaced, but I bet that section from Lincoln Pond to Elizabethtown on the Northway would be a blast to ride on a mountain bike or road bike.

I am betting bicycles on the Northway will be in the state budget eventually. Television stations and newspapers will mock the idea of riding bicycles on the Northway, and talk about how dangerous it must be. The state’s experts will disagree noting the inherent safety of expressways, and the cyclists organizations will celebrate the new highway they can ride. The DOT will put up the signs, it will become a trendy tourist thing for like 5 years and except for a few sections like Underwood to Elizabethtown, few sections of the Northway will get much bicycle riding.