Firstly, I'm pleased to announce that last night's BRA at the Rapha Cycle Club was a success, inasmuch as nobody assaulted me or, at least to my knowledge, sabotaged the espresso machine. I failed to take any photographs of the evening since I was too preoccupied with administering my hastily-prepared PowerPoint presentation, but here's a picture from the Rapha Cycle Club's Twitter which captures me in mid-"douche-clamation point:"
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Speaking of capturing things in photos, a number of people have informed me that New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones has been featured in the New York Times for the boring pictures he takes with his minimalist-approved iPhone:
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I wonder how many of Frere-Jones's Twitter followers are also interested in him for the sole reason that they are bothered by his work:
As far as the claim that his "tweets" rise to the level of poetry, I'll defer to the Bard graduates out there on that one:
"We Need More Rap Box Sets" is sure to become the "Leaves of Grass" of the 21st century.
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Having sufficiently annoyed myself, I'm pleased to present you with a quiz. As always, study the item, think, and click on your answer. If you're right, you'll know, and if you're wrong you'll see a commercial.
Thanks very much for reading, ride safe, and remember: it's not so much a weekend as it is a couple of days framed by a pair of work weeks.
--BSNYC/RTMS
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1) How many purple tank tops does "minimalist" Everett Bogue own?
--Zero
--One
--Two
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--Back
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(Rodney "The No Hand King" Hines, the Lone Wolf of the East Coast, poses with his fleet of bicycles)
5) How does Rodney "The No Hand King" Hines train for his famously "epic" 100-mile no-handed wheelies?
--By riding a bicycle with no front wheel
--By riding a unicycle
--Hill repeats
--Pilates
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6) Champagne is the new PBR.
--True
--False
--True
--False
***Special Bicycle Messenger-Themed Bonus Question***
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Bicycle messenger Malcolm Woodcock has 28 days to become a:
86 comments:
bing!
bing 2!
bing 3!
Top ten?
rats
fuck that shit!
ha!
top 10, meh.
Top something
I *heart* Vino!
Can't help myself.
Thanks for the blog. Very funny!
have a good weekend everyone
Is the Minimalist named Everret Bogue-
as in Bogus?
There must be irony there...
If I were a villain, that Champagne Bike Ride song would be the weapon that slayed me
It does give you a booz.
NO HANDS KING!
I see that guy all the time. He's crazy, but I'm not going to tell him that.
I do wonder if I could even be that buff if I quit my job and worked out all day...
Sorry I have your dream job. Keep writing about bicycles.
less is more better
Alright, was annoyed with SFJ, now moved on to CBS.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=425696783983
aint no trick about riding a wheelie. It's just can you stay in one place.
i've ridden with the wheelie king on our greenway & he's more dedicated than he is crazy. but crazy still.
I think I'll give him some of my Rapha kit for the challenge.
fox ghee hunter
it looked kind of like you were doing some jazz hands in that photo
ant1st!
bullsh-t! i wuz robbed. f-ckin typical. there is no way cipollini is NOT thinking about lady parts at the same time he is thinking about something else. are you insinuating you are in il re leone's head and know his thoughts?
Mario Cipollini, on why he had an airbrushed picture of Pamela Anderson on his bike rather than his wife:
"I know what my wife looks like."
Mario Cipollini, on what profession he may have chosen, had he not been a professional cyclist:
"Porn star."
(real quotations)
Mein gott. What a collection of geeks, hipster-wannabes and recumbent riders in the crowd at your talk, Snobby.
um... that pretty much captures 99% of all (of us) cyclists
I want to be known as the "Opulent Marxist." Don't say you're a minimalist, just be a minimalist. The reason I like your style, Snob, is because you don't make it about yourself. Most blogs are just mental masturbation. To paraphrase Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver): "I don't believe someone should devote themself to morbid self-attention. They should become a person, like other people."
Viva recumbents! a.k.a. the answer to the question that was never asked.
take it all and flush it down the fuckin' toilet, especially the champagne video.
The tao of Snob:
"I...tend to betray my lack of education by simply calling things what they are."
Ancient Chinese proverb:
"The first step on the path to wisdom is to call things by their true name."
That Fiat add is such a cliche joke but man, I laughed out loud.
I'd love to see the same thing only with the tall bike douche who puts his foot on the roofs of cars.
BSNYC: the Travis Bickle of Bike culture...
Sometimes I don’t think I really make comments on this blog so much as I tap keys that are under my fingers. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I think I have some kind of residue that has been burned or abraded on my fingers, or some of the keys on my keyboard are scratched, or the sun is shining on my keyboard and reflecting in my eyes. Most of what I write looks something like useless drivel a lot of the time (see work product).
...like, where are the chicks, man ???...
...i see a sea of disproportion, a minimalist chick thing, man & that's like not healthy...
...just framing my outrage w/ bad grammar...
"for it is only by confronting and exploring that which we dislike that we can truly learn who we really are."
I kvetch therefore I am? Discuss amongst yourselves.
is not having a utility the same as being utterly useless?
..."BSNYC: the Travis Bickle of Bike culture"...hmmm, rather...
...bsnyc/rtms: the 'butter brickle' of bike culture...
...tasty toffee like bits of acerbic wit 'framed' by a smooth creamy, easy to digest formula...
I went to Bard and I don't see the difference between taking a picture and putting a frame around something you see. But I wasn't in Music Program Zero, so I often didn't understand the most esoteric of things.
That bastard with his 57 list of purple shirts is named Everett, crap.
I'm trying to keep us out of the douche name assocation group. Mostly by never winning a race and doing it well.
FRDY TRTN
WHLY KING
RPHA SHOW
Oh yeah, and Cippo, can never not think about lady parts: on his lion's mane.
...cognorant...
...fully agree on the fiat ad...funny as hell, especially from the perspective of a cyclist who used to do that in years past...
...note to indulge-rs...use the roof, 3/4 of the way back...they suspect you might be doing it but the angles are such that they're never quite sure...
Comparing the "We Need More Rap Box Sets" to Leaves of Grass? Surely you meant to compare SFJ to douchespeare.
http://chrisblattman.com/2010/08/13/transport-ingenuity
Snob, enjoyed your Epic BRA last night. In the photo that's me in the back btw, directly below the only 'epic' photograph on the non-exposed brick part of the wall, enjoying a non-epic iced tea.
I was expecting the gag at the end of the Fiat ad to be more in the 'road rage hood ornament' vein, but that was much funnier.
hillbilly, yeah, that thing on CBS doesn't seem like it'll be too biased; ya think?
i am on very good terms with the first 3 seconds of that fiat advert :(
Tattoo typos, yeesh, and right on his knuckles where he can't cover them easily. Let's hope none of his friends can spell either.
When you're trying to correct this, please consider:
Ya'LL NEXT
Yr'RE NEXT
U'RE NEXT
I also hate Sasha Frere-Jones.
Also, "douche" and variations of "douche" are getting old. Let's come up with some fresher disparaging terms, ok?
Signed-
A. Weenus
@4:23 -- I was thinking the same thing. I count 14 occurrences of the word douche this week alone. Our vaginas are sufficiently clean, thank you.
"Champagne Bike Ride"? The kids are pretty fucking far from alright...
bgw--that's my kind of party!
Ahhh, I love cycling's men to women ratio.
Cipollini and Rocco Sifredi share a certain likeness, 'tis true. I was relieved to see steely-eyed Italians carefully machining crabon components, rather than skinny, pale Chinese with coal lung. Yay Mario! Champagne Bike Ride - "CBR is the new PBR"? - had me in titters. Completely taking the piss out of themselves and their peers. And the ladies were really hot. Maybe - no, certainly - my brains were addled by their presence. And so I name that video excellent. With all the retro crap they were wearing, it reminded me of MTV way back in the day (!) when it was worth watching.
Wow Snob, douche-tastic selection of videos!
I cover framing the zeitgeist.
Anon 4:35
Sounds like you may have a little sand in yours.
I frame the covered douche-geist
I curate the framed doucheray.
I hear ya. Photographers are to artists what bloggers are to writers.
It looks like a sausagefest. Not that there's anything wrong with that but where all the womenfolk?
It looks like a sausagefest. Not that there's anything wrong with that but where all the womenfolk?
That Cipo advertisement is slicker than the slicks on my dual suspension MTB.
If I were only allowed one possession, I might consider an artisanal ax(e). But, I want a pure artisanal ax(e) that has a handle made from the timber of a tree felled with an artisanal ax(e). The day that happens will be as groundbreaking as:
the day was douchy when the first douche called someone else a douche;
the day will be smug when solar panels are used to make solar panels, used to make a Big Dummy; the day will be scary when robots make robots, in the likeness of Mario Cipollini.
Sadly, I suspect that a full artisanal cycle will never actually occur because nobody who would buy an artisanal ax(e) would ever come across a tree that wasn't a street tree or a bonsai. Hmmm, miniature artisanal ax(e)/bottle opener? I might be on to something.
By the way, if the secret powers that be start using their puppet, the United Nations, to outlaw use of the word 'douche' to help stifle emerging awareness of the conspiracy, I might suggest that variations of 'toss', 'tosser' and maybe even 'tosspot' be considered as alternatives. ce
..."✯FiTCETERA✯ said...
It looks like a sausagefest. Not that there's anything wrong with that but where all the womenfolk?"...
...at home, washin', cookin', cleanin', ironin'...you know, the kinda stuff 'the womenfolk' oughta be doin'...
...ya let 'em ride bicycles & next thing ya know they'll wanna be emancipated & lord knows where that'll lead...
...barefoot n' pregnant...that's where they oughta be, dammit...
I was just having a look at the Speedhub Finder page on the Rohloff site and noticed that on the little timeline down the bottom of the page the animation jumps straight from the German Draisine to the Safety Bicycle without any depiction of the French boneshakers. I don't want to label Rohloff 'p-far deniers' or anything but I wonder if despite their precision-engineered-fourteen-ratios-evenly-spaced-over-a-519%-range-packed-inside-a-sealed-hub bla, bla, bla... they might still feel a little threatened by the uncompromised efficiency of direct drive.
http://www.rohloff.de/en/products/speedhub/speedhub_search/index.html
I hope nobody (who matters) minds me writing another lengthy comment here. I don't normally have a reason or inspiration to write much, but really enjoy this niche. I'm finding I am learning a lot in the process. It's a bit like Toastmasters is for public speakers, but in my case I'd dub it Tossmasters. ce
I too find Sasha Frere-Jones to be truly annoying. Hard to pin down why. Maybe it's the far-too-serious but incomprehensively written analyses of talentless rap artists. There, I said it.
Dear Mr. Snob,
Your blog is usually one of my favourite reads of the day, and indeed has been for the past couple of years, but add me to the ranks calling for a douche moratorium. Enough already! Please!
Sincerely,
A loyal reader
As always, great blog. On Sasha-Frere Jones, his brother Tobias, is a type designer in NYC who's done a number of typefaces based on existing "vernacular" (design-speak for "someone-else's") lettering, so it's probably natural for Sasha to make boring pictures of buildings and lettering.
I think you could spend less time lambasting the doucheratti, and more time lambasting the true douches:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/business/14auto.html?src=me&ref=general
Is this a 'good' thing?
LARS BOOM
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The bottle opener pic looks like it was shot by an ROV cam on the ocean floor.
- bif
Snob,
You have go to see the last picture in this set on Fixed Gear Gallery.
http://fixedgeargallery.com/2010/aug/1/vanHeerden/vanHeerden.htm
A new level of Douche-tastic!
David
first?
Oh, I'll be barefoot all right, when I take my Spiritas off to administer a beating, cleatside down, to whomever would suggest that I should be "b'np" and not riding a bike!
Course technically I still wouldn't be barefoot cuz I'd be wearing the Bad Kitties.
Now I know why I could never be an "artist," I am not pretentious enough.
Different cameras react differently... Wow! Just like t-max vs tri-x vs delta vs scala, all react differently. Photography is learning those differences.
Perfect collection of photos.
HAIL CSZR
-P.P.
the tattoo is of a dura ace LEFT-SIDE drive derailluer. LOL BIKE JOKES.
Too bad I missed that seminar! I'm currently searching for "inspiration" because I just entered the big and complex world of entrepreneurship. In fact, I recently joined a business networking site, and I stumbled upon Michael Geffrard's account. He's the President of The Liati Group, right? What a successful company. I'm gonna consider him as an inspiration.
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