Dogs and bikes

Catlike Dog Terrorizes Hudson Greenway

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In case that is actually a cat in the basket, for the purposes of these postings, cats are acceptable variations of dogs. As are the following:

  • Penguins and other flightless waterfowl
  • Porcupines, wildebeests and trout
  • Turtles, boa constrictors and rabbits

Standard poodle (I think), keeping pace on the Greenway.

Ladies, you need full leg extension or your going to blow out those knees. Raise that saddle! Rule of thumb: if your thigh is parallel to the ground at the highest point of your stroke, your saddle’s too low.

Come to think of it, this fellow’s saddle’s a bit low too.

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Intrepid Dog

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On Park Avenue

A young woman chauffeurs a basket-ed pup on the first Summer Saturday of 2010. Lafayette and Park Avenues temporarily turn into a car-free thoroughfare from the Brooklyn Bridge to 72nd St. to Central Park.

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Running Dog

Dog running alongside a bike, along 12th Avenue somewhere in the 50s today.

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New Feature – Dogs on Bikes

When I started this blog in 1936, I sought to create a space where I could post photos of two of life’s greatest features: dogs and bicycles. So for years I posted images of dogs, images of bicycles and everyone once in a blue moon, a photo of dog with a bicycle in the background. In time, the blog grew stale, dare I say dull. The editors of Dogs and Bikes, in an all out pedal-to-the-metal push to stay in existence, came up with this brainchild:

What about dogs on bikes…or at least running along beside them?

And so, after refining this concept on several pints of fine Belgian beer, we present you the first nascent images of dogs on bikes. And I make you this promise. Wherever there’s a dog perched in a bicycle basket, tongue askew, or running alongside one within camera range, I’ll snap that photo and stick it up on this blog for the entire world to see, hopefully improving the lives of many and bringing tears to the eyes of several.

And if I ever find the holy grail of dog/bicycle combo blogs, I promise to hold out for top dollar. I am of course talking about the very rare, never photographed dog pedaling a bicycle.

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We don’t need no stinking bagses

Hate the owner, not the dog. After the first photo I held the camera on this dog’s master anticipating a clever caption showing how considerate NYC’s dog owners are. He never looked back.

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Guy on a bike riding against traffic with headphones on. Transportation alternatives, attempting to address boorish/ oblivious/ dangerous riding tactics has launched a new website called Biking Rules.

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Two Dogs, Three Bikes

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A rare bike rack on an Upper West Side residential street. The city has fewer bike racks per capita than any major city anywhere ever.

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