Varsity Bike & Transit

All You Haters (Suck My Balls)

All You Haters (Suck My Balls) from nixbros on Vimeo. This comes to us from some non-hipster, non-fixters in Denver. It’s more making fun of self-righeousness than fixie riders. Well, actually, it does a pretty good job making fun of fixie riders.

Cranksgiving in NY This Saturday

This Saturday New York plays host to one of the largest alleycats of the year. Last Cranksgiving brought out 106 riders who hauled ass all over town to pull down a bunch of food donations. Cranksgiving is the odd marriage of messengers and Saint Mary’s soup kitchen on the Lower East Side. Instead of normal [...]

YouTube Video Shows Minneapolis Bikers Getting Beaten Up and Pushed Down

Minneapolis police are working hard for a big PR win. A YouTube video that has been removed from the site showed eight young men running down kids and cyclists. The 6-minute video shows one man wearing boxing gloves punching a cyclist on the Greenway, and similar incidents in St. Paul at the intersection of University [...]

Pedicab Peddlers Facing Deadline for Licenses

New York City’s Pedicab owners have been an ignored business since their inception. The city didn’t pay any attention as long as the bike carriages didn’t get in anyone’s way. But in the last few years, business has boomed and now they estimate that more than 1000 of the trikes are being pedaled around Central [...]

Hipster Bike Collections Begin Going on Sale

Now that hipsters have begun moving away from fixed bear bikes in favor of 1970s era mopeds and three-wheeled cars, they’re starting to sell of their fixie collections. This is great news for us. I’ve wanted to get a fixed gear for ages but it’s impossible to pull one down at a reasonable cost in [...]

New York Preparing for Bikes-in-Buildings Law to Take Hold

This December 11th a law signed last year that requires office buildings to let workers bring their bikes inside will take effect. Basically, if you own an office building that has at least one freight elevator, you’re required to provide a secure indoor spot where people can bring their bikes. This law was an easy [...]

Cyclists Set to Take Over Seattle Politics

The outspent underdog of Seattle’s Mayoral race took home the win last week, and good news for our Left Coast friends…the guy’s a biker. He actually campaigned riding around town on his bike, barking at people while wearing a helmet and blazer. Hopefully Washington takes notice and the bike lobby becomes a serious business. Mayor [...]

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Street Sweep Mayhem in NYC

Wandering around New York you see locked bikes with folded-in-half wheels. The front or back will be bent so aggressively that would take days of stomping by drunken idiots to get to that point. I always assumed that these bent wheels were some kind of drunken, willful destruction, though I wondered how people could destroy [...]

The Hearse for Greening Your Afterlife

The Bike Hearse surprisingly does not come from Portland, but from Eugene. I’m sure the Portlanders are constructing Tall Bike Hearses as we speak. They don’t like getting shown up. Wade Lind, the owner of Sunset Hills Cemetery, sought to offer a greener option into the afterlife, so he built this pedal hearse. I’m not [...]