Now I'm going to subject you to another "look at what I found parked on the street" post.
I've seen this bike a few times before, locked to a post underneath the elevated tracks on 31st Street. It's a spot I pass often, as it's right by Parisi bakery, a Dollar Tree store and a pub whose name I can't remember because I never go to it.
In my neighborhood, Astoria, you can see a greater variety of bikes than in most other New York City communities. Even so, this one is unusual: It's more like bikes I saw in Cambodia and Laos than anything I've found here.
First of all, that top tube has to be one of the thinnest I've ever seen.
And that internally-expanding rear hub brake is something, I believe, that has never been standard equipment on any bike made in, or exported to, the US. I've seen brakes like it on a few older bikes in Europe, but not in the US.
I'm guessing that someone brought that bike with him or her from Southeast Asia or Europe.
I've seen this bike a few times before, locked to a post underneath the elevated tracks on 31st Street. It's a spot I pass often, as it's right by Parisi bakery, a Dollar Tree store and a pub whose name I can't remember because I never go to it.
In my neighborhood, Astoria, you can see a greater variety of bikes than in most other New York City communities. Even so, this one is unusual: It's more like bikes I saw in Cambodia and Laos than anything I've found here.
First of all, that top tube has to be one of the thinnest I've ever seen.
And that internally-expanding rear hub brake is something, I believe, that has never been standard equipment on any bike made in, or exported to, the US. I've seen brakes like it on a few older bikes in Europe, but not in the US.
I'm guessing that someone brought that bike with him or her from Southeast Asia or Europe.
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