bikes

  • Guess Your Bike’s Not “Safe” On Broad Street

    Hopefully none of you left your bike locked up anywhere around the Bellevue last night; these signs were posted on a bunch of bike locking areas all around Broad and Walnut streets. The bikes were all removed for the shooting of the Jason Statham movie, “Safe,” which has been...
  • Thanksgiving Hit-And-Run Bike Messenger On Fox29

    The Philly bike messenger who was injured by a motorist in a hit-and-run Thanksgiving morning, Rachel Fletcher, was highlighted on Fox29 last night. Rachel talked about her ordeal to even get the Philadelphia police to report this as a hit-and-run. The police claim it was an accident. Because yeah, they...
  • Bike Messenger Rally Against New Proposed Rules

    “Members of the Philadelphia Bicycle Messengers Association gathered Monday night at Love Park to protest new proposals at City Council they say would make it more difficult for them to do their jobs.”  O.M.F.G… The tension in the city between bikes, cars and pedestrians is getting sooo uncomfortably palpable....
  • Motorists Go Through Stop Signs And Red Lights In Rittenhouse Square

    This is fucking BRILIANT!! YouTuber Mcget99 films for 5 minutes in the middle of the day, at an ultra high profile intersection of Center City, Philadelphia… Guess what he finds? All but one or two of the cars, trucks and buses completely ignores the stop signs and blinking red lights. Which according...
  • Philly Bikers Beware: Red Lights Are For You Too?

    This new PSA for bikers in New York City is meant to help promote Biking Rules, which is, and I quote: “A new Street Code for NYC cyclists, following the simple principle that our responsibility to others on the street increases in relation to our potential to cause harm.” Hhhmmm… Really? Red lights are meant to stop cars....
  • Hit By A Car!

    Hey everyone! So you may have noticed (I hope that you noticed!) that I’ve taken the past few weeks off from blogging on Philthy Blog. This was (as you can probably tell from the above photos and title of this post) because I was hit by a car! Yes, biking to...