Monday, December 3, 2012

Junglee Love. It's Driving Me Mad. It's Making Me Crazy. (That's from a song they play on the radio, I didn't come up with it.)

Life is hard here in the urban jungle.  (Pronounced "junglee" like Werner Herzog says it.)  First, I wake up to the din of the cityscape.  Then I drink some puréed bacon and scarf a fistful of coffee grounds.  Needless to say, after that I need to visit the restroom, and a short hour and a half later I head out the front door.  Within minutes I'm on this:



Which turns into this:


Which leads me to this:



From toilet to trailhead, I'd say about 90% of the ride is on car-free paths.  Then, once I hit the trailhead, it's generally only four or five more minutes until I become one with the landscape by landing hard upon it:


I took this photo immediately after I finished cursing, and if you're wondering what caused the crash, I was undone by a laughably tiny obstacle followed by a series of overcorrections which culminated in my falling over like an idiot:


Once I found my woodland legs though it was a lovely morning of cavorting on the mist-enshrouded hillside:


But that's only because I left the bike where it was, removed all my clothes, and frolicked about on foot like a hirsute wood nymph until I was shot with a tranquilizer dart by animal control.

Also helpful was my newly-enhanced wider cockpit:


The new handlebars didn't hurt either.

Speaking of bicycles, people have them, and some of those bike owners like to do the cyclocross on them, and some of those people have the kinds of cyclocross bikes that have no derailleurs and only one gear ratio, and those people generally like their exploits to be photographed and filmed extensively, even more so than the rest of us, and that's why they had the SSCXSSWCCXWC in Los Angeles this past weekend.  I couldn't be bothered to look up the photographs, so here's a Pippi Longstocking costume, which is exactly the same thing:



For the most part, single-speed cyclocross racing is people riding around in skirts and really high socks. That's all you need to know.

In any case, apparently next year's SSCXWCSSCXCXCZ is going to be in Philadelphia next year, which is tremendously goaueiiensnzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............

I literally actually literally totally fell asleep on my keyboard as I was typing that, though in fairness to Philadelphia this is the most exciting thing that's happened to them since the Continental Congress--not to mention the fact that the outfits will be almost exactly the same:


Not only do singlespeed cyclocross racers and founding fathers share an affinity for high socks and wigs, but both groups are also 100% white.

Of course, if the founding fathers were around today they could have adopted the Declaration of Independence by PDF, which would have saved them a trip to Philadelphia altogether.  Yes, email is a miraculous miracle, which is why I read mine occasionally, and when I do I am delighted to find messages like this:


Hi Bike Snob,
Nice rants
I'd like to know what do you think about these wooden hats... eeeerrr... helmets

http://www.indiegogo.com/CoyleHelmets

Stefan A

Hello, Stefan, thank you for writing.  Firstly of all, it's spelled "helments."  Secondly, I think I've actually mentioned these wooden helments before, but frankly I can't be bothered to check because honestly who even reads this crap anyway?  So here's the video for the first time or again as the case may be:



So what do I think?  Here's what I think.  I think I'd rather wear a salad bowl on my head.  Not only do they come in wood, but if you get the nesting variety you can dial in the perfect fit:


Whereas with the wooden helment you need to go to work on it with a power sander before you can ride around looking like George of the Junglee:


(Actually, I don't think George of the Jungle wore a helment, so presumably this is for Fred of the Jungle.)

According to the guy who wants your money so he can whittle these for you, the big selling point is that they're more environmentally friendly than styrofoam helments.  Well, you know what's even more environmentally friendly?  Wearing nothing on your head at all!  How much could you possibly love the environment if you need to cut down a tree before you're willing to get on a bike?  As the saying goes, there's no such thing as a complimentary breakfast.  Here's how it works: If you want personal safety at all costs, fuck the environment and drive a tank while wearing flame-retardant body armor.  If you want to tread as lightly on the Earth as possible, ride a home-grown bamboo bike naked.  And none of this bamboo-with-crabon-fork-and-components crap, either.  That's like calling yourself a vegetarian because you put avocado slices on your bacon cheeseburger.  No, I mean the full-on Gilligan shit:


In fact, at that point you could go with a car or a bike, it really doesn't matter:


By the way, if you're unfamiliar with "Gilligan's Island" because you're under 100 years old, it was a thinly-veiled Marxist allegory masquerading as a fatuous TV show.  Also, adolescent boys everywhere were stunned and confused (and in some cases aroused) by the episode in which it was revealed that sexpot Ginger was actually a man.

But the biggest problem with the wooden helment, even more so than the quasi-environmental aspect, is the way it looks:


I like to think I'm above superficial matters like appearance.  At the same time though we are animals who live in a society, and it's foolish to deny that appearance is an important part of human interaction.  So, while it may be acceptable to wear bits of the forest on your head in a "state" like Oregon, the simple fact is that you can't go around in a real city like New York with a hollowed-out stump on your head that looks like a chipmunk is going to pop out of one of the vents at any moment.  Well, I mean you can, but it's going to adversely affect your life.  People won't hire you.  They won't rent you an apartment.  It's even dangerous, because while you may think you're safer if you fall of your bike, you never know when someone's going to mistake you for a human game of Whac-A-Mole and hit you over the head with a mallet.

Worst of all, something like this has the potential to set the cause of cycling as transportation back at least 20 years.  It's hard enough for people to wade through the morass of bicycle marketing, so once they've actually gotten a bike you can't then tell them, "Oh, one more thing, you have to wear this wooden turtle shell on your head so you won't die."  That's going to be a deal breaker, and their next stop is going to be the Hyundai dealership.

Lastly, on the subject of helments and clothing, Giro makes them, and they're also going to be making some new cycling clothes that look pretty much like regular clothes, and they're so excited that when they were in New York last week they added me to their list of people to talk to about the clothes in person.  So we went to a fancy restaurant in Manhattan, where they can't throw me out because my brother's pretty much in charge of the whole place and if he tried it I'd tell on him:


Once seated and furnished with designer alcohols, we played a serious game of "male model poker:"


The clothes actually looks really nice, but you can't truly judge a cycling garment until it's spent at least six hours on your scranus (if it's pants) or your nipples (if it's a shirt).  I'm still not sure why they wanted to tell me about these clothes though, since I'm currently working my way through team clothing I over-ordered back in the late 1990s and have a good 1,500 more forest falls to go before I need to re-stock.

Also at that very same restaurant on that very same day I had lunch with some other blogger and his wife.  (Yes, I camped out in a fancy restaurant all day talking about clothes and blogging like a metrosexual Cliff Clavin.)  This blogger says he's fat but is actually pro cyclist skinny, probably because, unlike me, he does not drink at lunch.  He's also doing good stuff for good causes, so help him.

Once finished with my meetings, I plopped my salad bowl back on my head and went home smelling like vinaigrette.

146 comments:

babble on said...

it's making me craaaaaaazy

babble on said...

once read and forever in my head

babble on said...

comeoncomeoncomeoncomeon
it's time to play!!

babble on said...

Hello hello hello
is there anybody out there?

babble on said...

ok, this is just too easy. Guess I should read it now...

Anonymous said...

babble on, do you need something to do???

babble on said...

oh phew

thought the whole universe had up and disappeared there for a minute

Anonymous said...

Early

babble on said...

no. Whatever might give you that impression?

bikesgonewild said...

...i'd follow that all day long...

Anonymous said...

Here! Omg, I can see Baffle's panties.

cycle

babble on said...

yeah, he's pro-cyclist skinny with a seriously hot wife, but you should help fatty anyway...

babble on said...

WHAT panties??

oops...

JB said...

BIKE PRON

babble on said...

You were cavorting and frolicking naked without us, and you didn't take pictures??!

Anonymous said...

I refuse to comment unless I'm outside the top twenty.

Anonymous said...

would be..
TOOP TEEN
they don't call her Babble for nuthin

Cloc said...

18th?????

Comment deleted said...

I want to spend a Wednesday with Dawn Wells.

Comment deleted said...
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bikesgonewild said...

..."...awimaway, awimaway,
...awimaway, awimaway...
...in the jungle the mighty jungle
the lion sleeps tonight...
...in the jungle the mighty jungle
the lion sleeps tonight..."
...

Velocodger said...

We of the Gilliganian religion have very strict rules about showing images of our deity. After giving this post several milliseconds of careful consideration, we have decided you meant no disrespect, and thus we will not issue any fatwas on your ass. Just be careful in the future.

recumbent conspiracy theorist said...

Hour and a half? Sounds like you might need more fiber in your diet. Try some oatmeal with the bacon smoothie.

theEel said...

meh...
weed.

pode hogg.

JB said...

What gear ratio was Gilligan running and did he get the tattoo?

3G said...

LITL BUDY
MARY ANNE
FORT KNOX

meh

Marcel Da Chump said...

Treacherous fog yesterday.

babble on said...

nanon@11:47 - it's true.

Eel - guilty as charged.

stop worrying and learn to love your life, babbling podio-hogs 'n'all.

mikeweb said...

Ginger AND Maryann in the same post?!

And babble breaking the rule against podium hogging!?

AND a link to a picture of the great actor John Ratzenberger?!?!

Is this Monday or Wednesday?

recumbent conspiracy theorist said...

What the hell was Thurston and Lovey even doing on that piss ant boat?

babble on said...

Yeah, that's right. Lookout, peeps. I'm a breaking-the-rules kinda badass today.

bikesgonewild said...

...the doctor speaks in hushed tones to the wife...

..."...well, the good news is that the wooden helmet saved your husbands life from any serious impact injury & he will survive...

...the bad news is that the giant wooden splinter created by the impact was driven deeply into his brain & the man will be a vegetable for the rest of his life..."
...

bikesgonewild said...

...dark...fuck, that's dark...

Anonymous said...

Now that's just greedy. (ZOD)

Anonymous said...

MaryAnn was smokin' hot

McFly said...

And here I spend most of my time in the forest trying to NOT make my head come in contact with wood.

More importantly, did the Ergon's play any sort of role in the crash. Would +/- 5 degrees of rake either way have prevented gravity's victory over your skills?

I need data.

mikeweb said...

You just know the professor was bangin' all three of those bitches. And he made Thurston pay to watch.

Doug, I hope I didn't offend.

BikeSnobNYC said...

McFly,

The slight aerodynamic lift created by the winglike portion softened my fall ever so slightly.

--Wildcat Rock Machine

RBWC said...

Either

A) shoulda had a '9er to roll over those obstacles or
B) you did have a '9er and it didn't help, so get a 12" wheeled Strida already.

-read blogs, write comments

bikesgonewild said...

...& thurston gladly paid...that was his thing...

...the captain was bangin' an older native woman on the other side of the island & 6 months after the ss minnow's crew were rescued, his returned to live with her & he eventually fathered 16 kids...

...gilligan was 'slippin' the banana' to a monkey out in the jungle & brought him back during the rescue...
...that monkey later moved in with michael jackson...

Anonymous said...

Your crash may also have been caused by your absurdly long stem. What is that, like 500mm?

BikeSnobNYC said...

Anonymous 1:00pm,

Yes. It's 500mm. And it caused my crash.

Good eye.

--Wildcat Rock Machine

Anonymous said...

In any case, apparently next year's SSCXWCSSCXCXCZ is going to be in Philadelphia next year,
could it be moved to the year after and this years moved back 4 years instead. thanks

bikesgonewild said...

..."...the captain..."???...sheesh - that would be 'the skipper'...

...sorry about that, little buddy...

Frilly said...

Ha ha Snobbie, I immediately thought of whack-a-mole when I saw that helmet. Cheap anger management therapy!

Speaking of anger, why is it always about Ginger?!? What is it with high maintenance women?!? I bet she was horrible in the sack--Lob willing!

JB said...

Team Mary Anne.

Skiptooth Lotus Eater said...

A helmet that needs to be polished. How fun is that?!!

Frilly said...

And that is why you are one of my favorites JB. Good man.

frangle_mc_nuttenstien said...

A 650b bike would have prevented the crash. Get one now!

You have already crashed because you weren't riding a 650b. Don't be left behind!

recumbent conspiracy theorist said...

You've already jumped the shark with every other aspect of this blog. Why not just get that dual suspension? I'm gonna.

Esteemed Commenter DaddoOne said...

holy shit, you moved to Bayonne!!!!?????

wishiwasmerckx said...

BGW, it's actually spelled "a-wiwm-away." Common mistake, that...

The King of Park Slope said...

They let you in restaurants?

Oh my.

Anonymous said...

WCRM,

The way you ride, you should put a salad bowl on the little snob for protection.



balls™

Rusty Trombone said...

Knock it off with the Bass Player jokes. All musicians deserve our admiration and respect, especially me.

wishiwasmerckx said...

Gilligan has a first name and it is "Willie."

You can thank me when you win the trivia contest with that little nuggett.

wishiwasmerckx said...

Does the salad bowl healment pass ANSI/Snell standards?

Inquiring minds want to know.

the commentariat said...

Snob, all kidding aside, your crash turned your front wheel slightly out of alignment with your stem.

See photo you posted.

BikeSnobNYC said...

Wishiwasmerckx,

Not sure, but I understand it is rated for kale.

--Wildcat Rock Machine

Anonymous said...

what park is that?

BikeSnobNYC said...

The Commentariat,

I think you're mistaking out of alignment photography for out of alignment bicycle--though stem alignment is for "woosies," anything between 11:00 and 1:00 is fine.

Same goes for lunch.

--Wildcat Rock Machine

McFly said...

TRUE STORY:
I was spending quality time with an older girlfriend and we we're high and I say "Do you want me to do you like Mary Ann or Ginger?"

She says, "Well, what's the difference?"

Me, "I would lay Mary Ann down and make sweet, soft love to her while whispering sweet nothings in her ear. Ginger, on the other hand, would get bent over while I stood by the bed and boned like a dirty girl on prom night."

(I will never forget this part)

Her, "Well, why don't you start me off like Mary Ann and finish me up like Ginger......'

recumbent conspiracy theorist said...

A turtle shell would make a nice helment too.

Anonymous said...

Fuck it, I'm leasing a bamboo Hyundai

Anonymous said...

Nice bike! (anyone here appreciate old steel?)

cycle

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/bik/3443240272.html

JB said...

Frilly,

Well, just look at those gams! I don't think we ever saw Ginger's, since she was always wrapped in the living room curtains. These were formative years. I needed some skin, be it Gilligan's Island or the JC Penney catalog.

Lapidary Loupe said...

Vinegar-ette! Sheesh!

Anonymous said...

Do you know why they didn't have a bass player character on Gilligan's Island?

Because, because it was only a half-hour show, that's why.

Buffalo Bill said...

Gilligan always wanted Ginger to dance naked through the forest like a wood nymph, now I guess we know why it didn't happen.

Also, I'd congratulate Babble for the full podium finish, but in the back of my mind I can't help but wonder what Dick Pound would have to say about that kind of performance.

McFly said...

What are you crackheads talking about with the bars being askew? Did you bother to look at the tire. Perfect symmety.

Choose Natural Guy has the most beautiful eye-brows. They are mesmerizing.

Dooth said...

How about some Pippi love? Is she legal? The one pictured sure is...I LOVE long stockings on women--the ones that go just above the knees! Grrrrowlll!

J said...

Nice grips on the mtb. How's the folder quest going?

McFly said...

+17 anon 2:46

Dooth said...

I was too turned-on by Pippi to notice those egregious Ergons...but once I did, nearly tossed my lunch.

McFly said...

Dammit Babble. Just when I swore I was not going to jack off at work anymore you go and unleash a barrage of Low-Light Shoulder Porn.

It's a very oddly specific genre...

Dooth said...

But on the bright side, I got to write "too turned-on by Pippi" without feeling gay...not there's anything zzzzzzzz...

Anonymous said...

Now that you mention it, I could totally see Tatiana Josivovna Chernova Blacker wearing a queen of diamonds costume!

streepo said...

Who doesn't enjoy polishing their wood.

Helment.

Vegas said...

But when an inattentive driver runs you over from behind and you become a vegetable, the wooden salad bowl healment will be superbly apropos.

BIZARRO ZOD said...

Stand up and be counted.

hoot79er said...

How did you curate 17 children if you don't have genitals?

babble on said...

Buffalo Bill he would undoubtedly see me for the doping dope that I am...

Yup. You heard it here first. I cheated.

Here's the real question:

Whaddaya gonna to do about it?

Dennis said...
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mikeweb said...

Whaddaya gonna to do about it?

Well I don't know about anybody else, but I'm gonna mind my own business and polish my wood helmet.

db said...

"Coyle. Producing a solution to a problem that never existed."

BikeSnobNYC said...

Dennis,

Dennis,

Comparing seat belts to helments is like comparing cars to bicycles.

--Wildcat Rock Machine

babble on said...
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Anonymous said...

See what happens when you wear a hair suit. You get shot with a tranquilizer dart.

It's good thing it wasn't a bear suit. Or was it a bare suit.

Anyway, any hirsute wood-nymph knows that you can protect your head with a hair helment. All you need is a lot of hair held in place by some energy absorbing (and dissipating) hair helment spray.

The bonus is that you'll always look good because you won't have helment hair, which is not to be confused with the hair helment.

If you're hiruste enough, you could you use the hair helment spray to build yourself some body armor. It'll may come in handy when you bounce off of the trees.

ken e. said...

sign 372 of the alpacalypse:
spammy links with correct grammar and syntax (whatever that is).

Anonymous said...

It's not Junglee, it's pronounced
"Young Lay", which makes more sense, you pervert.

Anonymous said...

On the other hand, "Young lay" is good spondee.

ken e. said...

sign #373:
link mysteriously dissappearing, and steve miller being replaced with eye of the tiger (journey?)... cue punk rock relief effort.

Anonymous said...

Ergons, 5 ft wide handlebar, 500 mm stem.... Snob, what you´re looking for is a bloody motocross !

Anonymous said...

New to MTB in NYC area. What park is this?

Anonymous said...

Yo, yo, http://www.nycmtb.com/?page_id=285

Anonymous said...

The "full-on Gilligan" shit is super skunky with a hint of the OG kush typical of the South Pacific origins.

Jimboner said...

Got lost.

Anonymous said...

Steve Tilford isn't afraid to talk about real issues, like gun control.

Comment deleted said...

I'll take Highbridge for 100, Alex.

Anonymous said...

Fatty's OK but he's never once created a new word and Snob, like, does that every other post.

siGMUnD FRieD said...

Snob,

It has been my clinical experience that people who are excessively smug/ironic and tend to wear spandex and express a fixed gear phobia openly are more than likely to have had parents who were into household cleaning product vapour huffing pre-middle school.

Billy 'sounds like kayak' Jackk said...

SNOB!

Are you within 30 minutes of a poseur caffeine smuggatorium known as 'ye Runsable Spoon'?

bikesgonewild said...

..."...whaddaya gonna to do about it ???"...

...well, being an admitted yet reformed bike blog cheater myself, i'm very self righteous about it, like most reformed 'anybodys' & as such i will bear the mantle of responsibility myself for the greater good of bike blogs everywhere...

...report to the bgw office...those knickers are coming down so prepare for the spanking you so richly deserve...

...but don't worry, i'll keep this in confidence...no one else needs to know...

babble on said...

Isn't punishment meant to be a deterrent?

the commentariat said...

No, it's meant to punish, and you have been a very naughty girl...

bikesgonewild said...

...mmmmmm...here at the college of behavioral sciences we find the term 'punishment' to be of such a harsh nature...

...a little 'correctional application' shall thoroughly encourage you to show me just how badly you realize your need & desire to change...

...& sometimes a bit of repetition needs be involved so that it's obvious ones heart is indeed sincere...

...of course, "...i, you, me..." being relative terms as regards this discussion lest anyone make assumptions...

McFly said...

[Bikes and stuff]

Paris, Tenn.-While Paris Patrolman Jordan Klutts was on patrol Friday, he was stopped and told that a tall black male was walking behind houses on Jerome Drive. Klutts spotted the man pushing a bike and when the man saw him, he dropped the bike and ran, then hid in a bush.

Klutts found Michael Bobo, age 24, 2317 Lone Oak Dr. and asked what he was doing with the bike. Bobo said he got it from someone. Klutt was aware of who lived at that address and knew he owned bicycles and called him and described the bike to him. He was told who the bike belonged to.

Bobo was arrested for theft of property and bond was set at $550.

AWWWWWWWWWWW YEAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! Done made the big timw sukkaaaaahh's.

Hillbilly News and World Report said...

...and that concludes this week's episode of "Tennessee Police Blotter."



McFly said...
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McFly said...

HE HID IN A BUSH! lolzlolz

"Hey You, come out of the vaginal shoreline with your hands up! And quit SNIFFING YOUR FINGER!"

Nebraska Bike Commuter (non DWI edition) said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtcSYPjJbgg

The Guy from Bush said...

There's No Sex in Your Violence..

THERE'S NO SEX IN YOUR VIOLENNCCEEE!!!

Anonymous said...

I'm probably the only reader over 200 years old and who remembers the old Johnny Weissmuller "Tarzan" and "Jungle Jim" movies. I would think a wooden pith helmet would be just as cool in the urban jungles of NYC as they were in the aforementioned African Jungle movies. Actually Bud Abbot looks very suave and debonner in a pith helmet in the movie "Africa Screams."

Anonymous said...

Trust me, Freds will reject the wooden helmet.

babble on said...

Nebraska... yeah, but who's going to save Lancelot from temptation today, hmm? Are you planning to don Galahad's mantle?

McFly said...

Johnny "Eben" Weissmuller was an olympic swimmer.

I think that means he was like, good and junk.

My head hurts said...

At least he was wearing his helment... (Now even when being assaulted, bicycle cyclists should be wearing helments)

http://thecourtroom.stomp.com.sg/stomp/courtroom/case_of_the_day/1460892/jailed_for_hitting_cyclist_with_bicycle_chain.html

Heng then swung the bicycle chain and hit Mr Ho repeatedly on the head, arms and body. Even though the victim was wearing a bicycle helmet, he still suffered multiple injuries as a result of the assault.

recumbent conspiracy theorist said...

Hey babble sometime will you pose seductively on that big black cannon and take a pic?

Rollie Fingers said...

It just gets weirder:
http://www.pelotonmagazine.com/Feedzone/content/6/1986/LeMond-aims-to-be-UCI-President

Wooden safari pith helments are so hot right now. They needed a new urban poseur must-have accessory since lumberjack axes are sooo five minutes ago.

Gingerologist said...

I could be wrong but I think Ginger in image #13 and #14 are two different Gingers. The 2nd Ginger did not have the same seductress appeal as the original Ginger.

Anonymous said...

Isn't a helment made out of wood sort of missing the whole "the helment compresses thereby reducing the chances of traumatic brain injury" thingo? Or is it actually just as effective as a plastic Giro wallet emptier?

bikesgonewild said...

...ya, they say that a chrome 'panzer' helment works just as effectively...

...you can order them through "prince harry's retro- gear" on-line...

...he throws in an 'iron cross' on orders over a $100 bucks...a real one...

Anonymous said...

Hey Snob,
If Highbridge is going to be a regular thing for you, you may want to rethink your grip choice. Just sayin'

Anonymous said...

1) Werner Herzog, as a Bavarian, actually pronounces jungle: "albino crocodiles". You're welcome.

2) Pippi is the strongest girl in the world. She's as legal as she wants to be.

3) If you think those pictures were taken in Manhattan (Highbridge), you're on drugs.

4) I realize you're on drugs even if you don't think that.

5) More likely the Old Putnam Trail through Van Cortlandt up to Sprain Ridge Park or some such. 

6) I think that group portrait of the castaways was taken during one of the reunion specials years later, and Dawn/Maryann still looked like that, Lob have mercy.

Anonymous said...

what are you doing riding on a "separate path?" bikes are vehicles. you should be riding (or, more precisely bike driving) ON harlem river drive - and remember to take the lane.

Anonymous said...

inwood hill park?

Anonymous said...

[Taken completely out of context from Tilfords blog]

I think I’d be about the perfect guy for him to study. I’ve been doing endurance athletes nearly since I’ve been able to walk. Plus, I’ve hardly ever taken more than a couple weeks off since I was a teenager.

Anonymous said...

Steve Tilford does not take time off more than 2 weeks from doing endurance athletes and STILL HAS TIME TO WRITE A BLOG. You pussy.

Anonymous said...

Not Inwood Hill Park.

Anonymous said...

Dear Snob - I am curious what causes to delete some comments. It's clearly not sexual content, because between Babble, McFly, and bikesgonewild there is as much sexual innuendo among the BikeSnob commentariat as there is in an episode of Three's Company. Not that I mind - I like thinking of Babble's underthings.

McFly said...

I don't think she wears any....

Personally I go Commando from late April til mid-September.

It's strictly for hygenic reasons.

This concludes today's episode of Too Much Information.

babble on said...

Not quite...

Today I am, and they're red.

And THAT concludes today's episode of too much information.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Babble. Now I can spend the day thinking about your red panties. I like that. And I don't think it's TMI - it's just about right.

Dennis said...
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Anonymous said...

I just noticed that the original hipster, Ernest G. Krebs, is riding that bamboo bike.

Synonymous said...

Dennis said ...

"Its exactly the same as climate change denialism...It's outside the reality-based community."

How ironically ironic.

Anonymous said...

Opps,
that's Maynard G. Krebs, the original hipster.

I guess I'm losing my memory, what with my age and all.

Anonymous said...

I'm impressed those trails are in manhattan...

Anonymous said...

Huh, bikesnob is a male model poker.

Double Deed said...

Take it easy on the old guy, will ya?

Anonymous said...

@Dennis is a plastic hat the same as a kevlar full face motorcycle helmet? Even helment manufacturers don't pretend "helmets save lives" they claim "helmets reduce the risk of traumatic brain injury" - just sayin.

Dennis said...
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