Trinity opened the bike room in August 2008 at a cost of about $30,000 for lighting, a paint job, a new front door and, of course, bike racks (10, at $2,500 each).
For once in our biking lives, New York is really listening to us, helping our numbers grow, with new bike racks, bike shelters, biking incentives (a proposal for an indoor parking requirement for new buildings, for instance) and, of course, bike lanes.
In three weeks, more than 500 letters and emails have flooded into Plymouth City Council's planning offices, with many more uncounted, over the National Trust's plans for a mountain bike course, bike hub and hire centre in nearby Plymbridge Woods – a record for the council.
The island, 12 miles long and three miles wide, has seven golf courses, bike paths and several waterfront stretches devoted to fishing and swimming.
And if so, do they care?" Bike advocates point out, of course, that bikes are smaller, cleaner and safer than cars, and that bike collisions, unlike auto accidents, are rarely fatal.
And of course, cargo bikes are nearly emission-free and much safer for a city's inhabitants.
But the strip is slowly being colonized by shops carrying funky, eco-friendly clothing lines; small-production cheeses; urban beekeeping supplies; and, of course, custom bikes.
Of course, the bikes aren't meant to be a replacement for the subway system, exactly: they're meant to supplement public transportation and to be enjoyable.
It's no surprise, then, that the New Belgium Brewing Urban Assault Ride, a scavenger-hunt-meets-obstacle-course on bikes with beer at the finish line, got its start in Austin, in 2003, before expanding to nine other cities.
And, of course, the bike must be confiscated.
