Amir, the lovelorn financier, who considering the state of the economy may by now have lost his shirt (much to the delight of female cyclists everywhere);
And of course Floyd Landis.
If you're unfamiliar with the recumbent, it's similar to the bicycle in that it has two wheels and it's human-powered, but it's also very different in that you kind of lie down on it. Also, it replaces the saddle with a lounge chair and your dignity with a big gaping hole. This particular fellow is looking for one particular lady, but that doesn't mean the rest of you are safe:
Looking for tour de bronx asian girl - m4w - 30
Reply to: [deleted]
Date: 2008-10-20, 8:27PM EDT
This past sunday ( Oct 19 2008 ) I was volunteering at the Tour de Bronx on my strange looking bike. There is a cute chinese girl riding the 40 mile route. Unfortunately I didn't get your contact info.. That's me on the left and the girl on the right is the one I'm looking for.. ;>
I would like to meet you and get together for lunch/dinner sometime soon.
Our would-be wooer did not get this woman's number, but he did manage to take a photograph of her and post it on Craigslist, which I regard as both putting the recumbent before the horse and just plain creepy. Even creepier is the vantage point of the photo, which is taken from below and suggests that he may have shot her while he was actually riding the recumbent. (Or in flagrante recumbo, as they say in 'bent circles.) I'm sure as he rolled by he assumed a seductive pose and perhaps even reclined imperially:
I don't know who these guys are, but they're probably the Austrian Madball. In any case, it's exciting. And with the UCI overseeing things, you can be sure that the drug restrictions will be even tighter than the unitards.
But when it comes to the zeitgeist, the only scent heavier than that of freaky and perverse cycling is that of Obama-themed fixed-gears. Just a week after the last one comes another:
Fashion-based fixed-gears aren't always the best transportation vehicles, but they make excellent marketing vehicles. And among fans of fixed-gear fashion the Obama brand is almost as hot as Nitto and Sugino. (Thanks at least in part to his "youth marketing agency.") I was especially moved to see that the designer, Tristan Eaton, is a "vinyl toy designing auteur," because if there's two things toy designers know it's bicycles and politics. This should catapult Obama right into the White House and the rider right into an oncoming car.
In the interest of fairness though I'd love to see Eaton design another bike for McCain. Then he could really use those toy-designing chops. He could even incorporate a few Madballs.
77 comments:
podium!
BKF
third?
PODIUM to tha PODIUM!!!
rats!!
Top ten!
And I done read the article, too!
anon1st!
Vinyl Toys!
Hey Snob,
Not sure if you saw this yesterday...
http://fixedgeargallery.com/2008/oct/3/JesseDeBortole.htm
yabai orlando!!
DMS -- demonstrate my style!
no style 'cept hater style
Short post.
And those boys with the instruments look as if they could be a possible band formed by Mormon missionaries.
didn't think i could loose lunch this way.
which is worse:
recumbent
getting stalked by recumbenter
hipgear - i mean fixed gear obama
just finish me off with a full frontal
of cippo in his 80's peak. i need some pepto
Oh my god, MADBALLS!!! I have been wondering what those things were called for the longest! Bikesnob, you are a saint!
with all the posting on fixed gear freestyling
just watch quicksilver, in all it's 80's glory.
it was to cycling what gleaming the cube was for skating. pure not awesomeness. keep trackstanding......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwMGkqa6Sw
I prefer kunstrad, myself.
All you radballers can go suck yourselves.
wait! i've seen that look from a girl before,
it's the "I am calling the police as soon as I get some distance from you" or the "just keep smiling and he will go away" look. classic.
but since he's on a 'bent (and proud) we've
established he has no clue, or love life.
"in flagrante recumbo"
chapeau!
er, I mean, meh.
MADBALL!!
ack! where's my photo?
without my absent gazing eyes, I'm...
hahahahahahahahahahaha @ obama bike. i like obama and fixed gears for that matter, but man what a waste of money.
Ah, "gross for one, gross for all!" Remember how awesome it was when part of a toy's appeal was that it disgusted girls?
Looks like Cipo needs to get him some of those handlebar thingies, is this a side effect of steroids, EPO, or the multi-use lube?
He's an "auteur"?
Is that what they call kids with autism these days?
If you like the Obama bike you should see the McCain and Palin bike I recently built. I can't wait to hit the streets of Chicago on Election Day.
Photos coming soon
"And those boys with the instruments look as if they could be a possible band formed by Mormon missionaries."
Oh my God! I thought exactly the same thing! "They look like Mormons," was what I muttered to myself. "Especially that guy on accordian," I added under my breath.
Thanks for the tip on the plastic balls. I've just been hanging my own over the handlebar.
Why are you hanging truck nutz on your handlebar? Are you cycling backwards? Oh...that was yesterday's post.
All you haters, suck my madballs.
My Vinyl toy came with cheerleader outfit.
madb alls
wtf is with the comments design now?
That Obama bike is no fixer-upper either. It was a brand new Dolan.
http://www.thundervote.com/bike
check out my blog: http://bustedcarbon.blogspot.com/
not ass good as bsnyc, but still worth reading
Anonymous 1:34,
You muttered to yourself they look like Mormons then you added something under your breath to yourself? Did you want yourself to "kind of hear" you say something but not really understand yourself.
Would one side of you be offended at the Mormon comment?...
Figbug: I'm not looking unless you promise there is balls on it.
This post needs more balls.
obama's got a creepy old dude stalking him!
http://tinyurl.com/6hwf43
Smokey nutz and plate steel nutz, but no crabon frobber nutz? What the hell?!?! At least they now have that more natural swing. I can't tell you how embarrassing it was to be sportin' deez nutz with such a fake dangle.
A
Google isn't familiar with Thunder Vote.
...handlebar accessories ???...wtf...
...if yer gonna sport those on a bike, they definitely get fitted under the saddle between the seat rails where they hang in the breeze...
...if the guy on the recumbent had fitted a pair of those beneath the lounge chair of his 'bent, that cute chinese chick would be giving him a little 'dim sum' right now...
Re this guy (posted earlier by someone):
http://fixedgeargallery.com/2008/oct/3/JesseDeBortole.htm
That is without exception one of the saddest photo/post combos that I have seen on fixedgeargallery, and that is saying something.
What a pathetic guy.
Sounds like Snobby must be alluding to a Junk Saver on the stem of his mountain bike, but oddly enough, what do you ride off road? Please don't say a Crap-and-fail! Hopefully, you ride something with class, maybe SS, or a quality FS rig. So what is it?
Here is Cipollini freaking out on an italian game show... does anybody speak italian?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwMGkqa6Sw
Hypnotized by rear wheel... must go vote
...come on, annazed, cut him some slack...
...the spotlight dance center is a perfect place for a guy like that to hang out w/ his cliche' fixxy & beer breathe so he can impress 13 year old girls...
mark, no one knows what he actually rides...
annazed, you are definitely OTL on that one. Man's rolling a Transition decked out with PBR logos and swillin PBRs, too! Now that's stylin!
Thought provoking stuff, snob.
I always imagined Cipo would have a little more going on in that dept.
For some reason, when I'm out riding & I see creeps like the recumbent dude, I subconsciously check to make sure the legbands on my shorts are very firmly in place.
And, it seems a little odd that the bike nutz are offered in blue and hot pink.
Anyone who claims to have more than the 7 minutes attention span it takes to watch radball is lying
Say, Buddy, can you spare a dime for a fellow American who's down on his luck?
This one, I made for you bikesnob. McCain takin' it to the streets once more!
Image linked to my name...
...amir, buddy...a little chain lube in the slick-back, a pinch rubbed into the chest & man, you oughta be out there selling your studly services to the women of nyc...
...or hey, the guys in the village if yer really wanna switch it up...chaps, a vest & a pair of handcuffs & yer aces, babe...
...a world of opportunity awaits ya, pal, while us ordinary dudes struggle through tight economic times...
...just pimpin'...
Here's one of the endorsements Cipo had back in the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHo4UDCABUQ
Oh dear. This is embarrassing.
I was at the Tour de Bronx and riding on the other side of the amorous recumbent rider when he snapped his photo.
That woman was smiling at me.
But it's not what you think.
She was amused by the Edgar Allan Poe bobble head doll on my handlebars.
Well, who wouldn't be?
(Poor recumbent riding guy. I think his insistent humming of "Shorty got low" may have creeped her out. I know it made a lot of other riders around us uncomfortable.)
I could not possibly be more excited that the photos are back.
Isn't there a word for that?
...whatever...
ant1st!
That recumbent seat looked mighty like a Mini Cooper S one. So is that dude setting the coolness bar to never achieved heights, yet at the same time so dorky he makes Tri Dorks look utterly sublime. Did his mommy knit him that fluoro green visibility vest.
Must say that it was nice knowing you RTMS as when Super Mario’s lawyers sue the bejeesus out of you for alluding that he has a rather shriveled little Mario, not much will be left over. I have one of those handlebar thingos to get me over the UCI weight limit. The looks you get as you blast though the pack
Geez, AP, spoiled milk on your Cheerios?
I like how he said that was him on the left and her on the right. That poor girl, hopefully her friends show her some mercy.
It looks like that harlot absconded with BSNYC's Smartcar-race bag.
Frilly- Her friends will probably just be happy it wasn't her riding the 'bent with the mullet-wheelset.
Nah, A day left on the use by date, I checked.Must be fiscally frugal in these difficult times , and not waste anything. Tomorrow is dumpster diving day. And Strong latte is my poison
Ines Brunn!!!!!
Bike Snob, you are destroying your credibility, making yourself look sexist, and calling into question your googling ability.
Though, there is a video out there where Ines says that her act would not be a 'big deal' in many places in Europe.
Obama is hoping for a Biden pull.
The Republican Party is just a bunch of white racists. It is filled with a bunch of Angry White Guys (and Gals) who think the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act ruined America because it made it a lot harder for whites from Ireland, England, France, Germany, Italy, etc. to immigrate to the U.S. and made it a lot easier for the Chinese, Indians, Jamaicans, Mexicans, Egyptians, etc. to immigrate to the U.S. What these racists don't GET is that the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act (Thank You Senator Ted Kennedy) greatly increased Diversity in the U.S. which has made OUR Nation stronger and a much more multicultural place to live. Before 1965 Whites of European descent made up 88% of the U.S. population. Now whites only make up 65% of the U.S. population and by 2042 they will only make up 49% of the population. By 2100 Whites of European descent will only make up about 30% of the U.S. population and also by the year 2100 only 3% of the World Population will be White. The 2008 Election is just a turning point in American History though. By the end of this century white Europeans will be out of power in the United States(FINALLY!) and then we can finally end WHITE PRIVILEDGE and can get REAL Affirmative Action, REAL Reparations, REAL Change, and begin to redistribute wealth and property back to those who deserve it. Unfortunately, these Changes won't take place until the White Kids in Strollers and Elementary School today are in their 60's and 70's. The World is Flat. The white racist Republicans just don't seem to get it!
I just don't seem to get "it" either. Oh well too bad, off to the dumpster to dive for discarded Campy Chorus and Record 10S
Frilly,
Good point about the nutz offered in blue and hot pink...hmmmmmm.
sweet!
jd
www.rideskidders.com
Madball, bah, killing time (aka raw Deal), agnostic front and cromags were way better.
Bike Snob, you remember the band Leeway? i saw them open for Bad Brains on the i against i tour, pretty fuckin sick.the only good metal/hc/rap band.
bikes are cool.
@decora
Ines Brunn won't really impress anybody until she comes clean and puts her training values on the web for all of us to see. Like Ivan "no contempt for my doping attempt" Basso:
http://www.mapeisport.it/
Anonymous 1:16am,
I do indeed remember them. Was that at the Ritz?
--BSNYC
I would vote against Obama just for seeing that atrocious bicycle.
Snob, you've been posted to the Official Rules of the Euro Cyclist group on Facebook.
-May Cipo bless you with his Eurosity
I can't read that list of Craig ad without thinking of that great film, Kingpin, in a memorable scene in a restaurant in which the comb-overed Bill Murray puffs a cigarette and catches the eye of a woman,
"Hi, howya doin'?"
"not you, ..the other one."
How did he know she was Chinese? Was she speaking Chinese? Cantonese or Mandarin? Was she some kinda Chinese? At least he was savvy enough to not use the term, "Oriental", or "yellow fever".
It would be serendipitous if she posted a similar ad,
"You, following behind, some kind of pasty round-eye who can't do math, ...call me if you figure out how to handle seven numbers".
I also wondered how a lecherous , on-the-make guy could possibly expect a response from an "Asian" woman that he immediately subclassifies as "Chinese", and the posts her photo in cyberspace.
thank goodness for the hart-celler act - our lounging hero might not have ever met his "immigrant" without it
I don't know why some girls cyclists are handsome because I think their costumes suck, because those costumes show us a lot.
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