Word: biked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once one of Harvard Square's few sanctuaries of bike culture, heavy metal music, jeans and leather jackets, the Bow and Arrow Pub has rapidly become the home to increasing numbers of chinowearing, pop-music listening Harvard students...
Outside Harvard Hall, Joanne M. Nelson '93 said the University should provide more racks. Now, she said, she usually must lock her bike to fences or poles because there is no space elsewhere...
...Zinman '93 agreed with Nelson, saying, "It sucks because we need more bike racks." He said the problem is especially severe because many of the smaller racks are not made for the kryptonite locks he and other bicyclists...
...come back from China smitten with the idea of bicycle transportation. He had protective strips of concrete installed to create a bicycle lane up Sixth Avenue. As someone who schlepps around (as we say here) on an old Raleigh three-speed, I was pathetically grateful for the bike lane myself; I suppose that shows that no matter how long I live in New York, I am, at heart, an out-of-towner. The cabdrivers, of course, hated it ("He likes China so much, he shoulda stood in China"). Some storekeepers hated it. But who complained most bitterly about the bike...
...bike-lane episode reminds me that you'd better put "contentious" near the top of that list, right under "funny looking." (Not just "funny looking," come to think of it, but also "funny": New York is the only city I've ever been in where almost everyone you meet on the street considers himself a comedian -- a fact brought home to me a couple of years ago when a panhandler near my subway stop said to me, "Can you spare some change? I'd like to buy a few junk bonds.") In the matter of contentiousness, I once tried...