I saw a guy ride by on a green ELLIS when I was sitting in front of the deyoung
Btw brooks that was one of the best parts of that pretty great weekend, thank you
Folks brooks hooked up tix to the deyoung when we were in sf and it was really nice. That was the last place I saw a claes Oldenburg piece before he died
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i showed a work homie from LA the giant 3way plug at the philly art museum like 2 days before he died. can’t touch curve 1 but you can touch the plug. love it.
here’s curve 1
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oh, so many insights. i’ve tried to be careful about what i say publicly because i still want a good letter of recommendation etc., but the dY sucks and I won’t be spending any money there until they pull their head out of their ass.
They are trying to pretend that losing several dozen free parking spaces is the reason attendance is down, and not, you know, the pandemic, or the fact that they are putting on critically acclaimed but generally uninteresting shows.
I’m happy to hear that the dY vs. bike twitter thing made it all the way out to you!
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don’t you not work there anymore?
I never would have thought of it if it wasn’t part of a negotiated departure, but I got a written& signed letter of recommendation when I left my last job and it was very nice to have without having to ask later and hope folks cared enough to reply
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The dY museum might be a socially shitty organization that hates bikes and is run by out of touch boomers but that guy crashing his bike on a storm drain is on him. 
A person is responsible for being aware of objective hazards in their surroundings. It’s reasonable to expect that your own living room is safe to be in at all times, but unreasonable to expect to be able to safely ride down into an underground parking structure without exercising some situational awareness. Come on guy, accept responsibility for your own inattentiveness. I know you got hurt, but you are to blame.
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Also, uh oh:
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yeah but the response from the garage is not proportional.
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I feel like this is a case of two stupids meeting. My immediate reaction was the same as @Rusty_Piton . Like come on, Jan Heine warned us about the dangers of narrow tires!!
Fuck the cars-only museum idiot though.
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Bikes have existed for 100+ years. There are plenty of drainage grate and expansion joint designs that aren’t a lethal menace. Building things with tire-width longitudinal slots should be inexcusable at this point.
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Should be inexcusable, but for the most part–other than some very well-served parts of wealthy countries (which includes SF of course)–is an afterthought.
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S H O C K I N G
Yeah, whouda thought
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The key lesson of Roburt Hurst’s “The Art of Cycling,” a book I was fortunate to read very early on in my cycling life, is that the only person in the entire world who is responsible for your safety on a bike is you. Blame, fault, circumstances, doesn’t matter. Following the laws of the road doesn’t make you safer. It’s a really helpful frame of mind to have on the bike. It’s also a common attitude amongst experienced cyclists, but he does a really good job of laying it out. He is a former messbro and also advocates for a mix of 70s-era vehicularism and modern-day water/oil thinking that would probably feel familiar to everyone on tarck.
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These companies are always in a cycle of failure. Bolt just ghosted all of it’s customers and left hundreds, if not thousands, of bikes scattered across the country.
Also re: guy crashing. It’s actually the fault of the building code. Shouldn’t allow grates that tires can fit into. Stroller wheels would get stuck too.
There’s a tunnel in Philly that has grates like this too, and they’re known for eating bike wheels and knocking teeth out. Only difference the tunnel clearly says cars only.
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What about wheelchairs? Museum would probably be pretty fucked if someone got their chair wheel stuck in that
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this is true, but I would argue that culturally our decisions to push responsibility for personal safety onto codes carries the consequence of people failing to have situational awareness or responsibility for themselves and then looking to pass blame to someone else if they get hurt
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chicago is or at least was one of the better supported sets of equipment out there. PBSC has long been a heavyweight in the industry but the lyft acquisition might make things weird. goes from a woefully under resourced segment to VC- tons of resources but no clear direction/need for continuity
it’s been tough keeping bikes on the street through the pandemic so far