BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

Lol @ Noe Valley.

double LOL @ castro.

i wouldn't even attempt this for pgh. hate to say it but frisco has more unique and iconic neighborhoods than do we.

Yough River Trail style bike

Ours may not be world-renowned, but that doesn't mean they are any less unique, distinct and iconic. Of course, that may not be as evident to someone not from here.

Off the top of my head, and in no particular order:

Bloomfield, Lawrenceville, Shadyside, Highland Park, Polish Hill, South Side Flats, South Side Slopes, Strip District, Golden Triangle, Oakland, South Oakland, North Side (NOT North SHORE), Deutchtown, Troy Hill, Spring Garden, Manchester, West Allegheny, West End, Regent Square, Point Breeze, Dormont, Aspinwall, West View, Belleview...

I'm sure other board members can add in a bunch more, but take your pick. The SF poster shows eleven neighborhoods. Some of ours have more flavor than others for sure, and most have sub-neighborhoods to boot.

Morningside.

I think that if lawrenceville was a bike, it would be a brakeless fixie

+1 ALMKLM.

The problem is finding a bike that corresponds to the neighborhood's we have here. Like, what kinda bike does a SouthSide drunk ride? Something w/ those wanna be Mardi Gras beads hanging from the handlebars?

East Liberty:

perfect.

I hope Aaron is doing all right. I've not seen him around in months.

What are the unique differences between Troy Hill, Deutschtown, and Spring Garden that can be easily encapsulated by bicycle types?

If you want to get that analytical about it, what are the ones from SF aside from a few dumb stereotypes anyways?

This started off as a thread about a goofy poster and then turned into "Noah talks shit on Pittsburgh... again". Kinda lame.

I look at it more as saying that the neighborhoods are too unique to be identified by a bicycle.

+1 Haight. Where in the 'Burgh proper can one find a unicycle with some regularity?

salty

You're right... 'pologies 'nat.

South side is a pedicab.

@noah - NP, i remember you calling me out for always ripping on cleveland - and even though i mostly do it for fun/irony/etc and not because i really have anything against the place, it made me realize it can certainly get a little tiresome. so i've kind of cut it out - except when the browns are involved, of course... not that we even have that due to the idiots running the nfl.

my ripping on pittsburgh is directly related to every single effing yinzer taking the opportunity to rip on my home when i say where i'm from. one tends to develop a complex...

@Pseudacris - is that a windsock on the East Liberty bike?

Bumper

Negative. It is a car bumper.

It's been my unscientific observation that most people who ride due to licenses lost to DUI ride dual-suspended Y-frame mountain bikes from Walmart. With bandannas tied around the seatpost. They're like, standard issue. That's my vote for the SSide.

i like the casto bike. haha! also, aw, poor tenderloin.

while pseudacris wins, i think a silhouette of teens assaulting the bicyclist is more appropriate for eLib

Shadyside: carbon cervelo's - i don't think they allow anything else....oh yeah, carbon Calfee's.

LMAO

@edmonds: I agree--there are several parked in the rack in my building.

stu - there are always unicycles around CMU. Used to be every thursday on the Cut they'd have... I think it was the Gaming Club or something... I tried like hell to learn to uni from them for about a month of Thursdays. Never did succeed.

I like SS for a pedicab, Larrytown for a fixie, bumper bike for Elib, Oakland gets the stripped frame or an overfull bike rack, somewhere gets a crate bike, for some undefineable reason I see HP as tandem... Some neighborhoods wouldn't get bikes, being cycle-undefineable (like PH, there just aren't enough to define it).

But I think we could totally come up with a handful of decent approximations.

i think a silhouette of teens assaulting the bicyclist is more appropriate for eLib

Noah, I've got to disagree with you on this one, although I know it's personal for you since you've been attacked by teens (in Highland Park, the adjacent neighborhood).

While the attacks, are terrible, they're not confined to E Lib or to teens as the perp's. Most important, they hardly define the neighborhood.

If we take into account some of the recent stories of people hopping out of cars to confront cyclists, sometimes after grazing or bumping them while driving, we might find the hostility pretty evenly distributed around the various neighborhoods.

Regeant Square or Point Breeze: Mountain Bike

Beechview could get a road bike angled upward at like a 45 degree angle

regardless i try to avoid HP/Elib when I can (i think my assault was in Elib; it was south of Stanton on Highland Ave)

anyway, a better silhouette for HP would be a bike getting swallowed by a pothole..

@edmonds: there is a name for that particular type of walMart bike ridden by repeat DUI-offenders: "Booze-Cruisers" ... you do see a lot of them around the 'burgh.

I actually saw a lady (somewhat famous Bloomfield beggar/gas can lady) match-sprinting another bum on Lib Ave in front of West Penn on their respective booze cruisers once...hilarious! she beat him!

Strip district: my bike, loaded down with groceries, since I make it a point to carry as much stuff home with me as possible

Strip District def gets a cargo bike or a bike with a milkcrate on the back

Carrick (or Beechview, pretty much anything south):

[that's a non-existent bike rack with no bike attached to it]

Hey! I've seen TWO cyclists in the past week on 885. On this morning going across the Glenwood bridge into town as I was crossing to get to West Mifflin. Only the second time I've ever seen another bike on there in about two years.

What would get the BMX bike? Maybe polish hill because of the skatepark or downtown.

does point breeze (or is it homewood?) get a tangled ball of bikes?

noah if you are going to say that about east lib, then you should also say it for homewood, friendship, and the south side, because those incidents happened in those neighborhoods too.

and if it happened to you south of stanton on highland, i believe that section is technically larimer on the city map.

That was me in sliberty.

I think the BMX might belong to Millvale as I haven't seen too many BMXers elsewhere.

I want the downtown bike to be the thing those Triangle guys used to ride in the 90s.

I'm trying to remember where I've seen the most kiddie trailers. Squirrel Hill, I think.

ooo this is fun! How about a recumbent?

I would reserve the pothole swallowing a bike silhouette for Garfield...namely because of Penn Ave...

I'd put the recumbent in Garfield, because of Jerry.

Pennyfarthing for some old school upper scale neighborhood?

Bruced!

haha, sorry Pseudacris! I better get my graphic skills back to work for the last hour of the day... >.>

bikes of pittsburgh could ALL be the pothole. sadly.

this is an awesome exercise!

Highland Park makes me think of a small peleton of road bikes, due to Team Caffeine & Decaf.

Greenfield: 15+ year old comfort road bike

Definitely agree on the Regent Square MTB (usually on a car rack @ D's).

I've seen a lot of cyclocross bikes riding out of the neighborhoods around Regent Square, rolling up Forbes.

North Point Breeze: some sort of Freeride bike contraption.

Recumbent? Definitely Brighton Heights. There's some guy over there who's always on one. [...paging reddan...]

beechview would be quizbot's avatar, south side slopes would be quizbot's avatar w/steps instead of a street.

Hey... financial district has my bike! I claim it for Mt Lebanon

Jail Trail area:

The comfort hybrids from the bike rental shop

so where gets the tall bike?

^That would be the area around Western Psych.

Tall bikes located centrally at dippy. I don't think Nick has been to Western Psych yet ;p

Bike-pgh did something like this with the name tags at the annual members meeting. Don't remember at all what the designations were.

I recall the name tags from the meeting. I was just satisfied that the symbol for the "Suburbs" tag wasn't actually the flames of hell.

East Lib still should be Bumper Bike. Highland Park...hmmmm, nondescript commuter bike?

Also, Oakland should be either a stripped bike (like some folks mentioned) or Dippy the Dino on a bike...like a kid's bike or something.

HP should be an armada of decaf riders, for real.

Oakland a stripped bike.

Homewood a tangled ball of bikes (freeride)

Lville a fixie, duh

Northshore the ever-present bike taxi

Beechwood a bike at a 45 degree angle

by beechwood, you mean beechview

So I'm seeing a few ways in coming up with how to associate a bike with a neighborhood:

1. The kinds of bikes you would normally see there.

2. Which bike is "representative" of the area...in other words the "essence" of the neighborhood captured in bike form.

3. Association by landscape/people/etc of the neighborhood (the pothole one, Jerry being the recumbent representative, the Team Decaf rides)

Just pointing that out.

Ps: This poster needs to actually happen!

The strip should probably be a cargo bike, to sum up the essence.

Greenfield could be a police bike, given all the cops that live in the neighborhood.

Greenfield could be a police bike, given all the cops that live in the neighborhood.

...or it could be a officer arresting a cyclist (followed by said officer hitting his girlfriend).

@ nick it could be a officer arresting a cyclist (then pushing his girlfriend down the steps).

< s. colbert voice>

It's widely recognized that cyclists habitually break laws. And that poor officer wouldn't have had to hit his girlfriend if she hadn't attacked him first.

(edited for echo effect)

I detect a good story here Nick...

I think Nick's story might qualify as "ripped from the headlines."

Which neighborhood gets the 70s era Schwinn with the drop bars tilted up?

^ 70's Dui'y bikes belong on the north side by the stadiums.

@gimpPAC: See http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/topic/everyones-favorite-cop-at-it-again