(Sorry, just kidding about the "again" part.)
Soon, America's favorite artisanal layabouts can just buy a bike and craft while the cash rolls (or at least trickles) in, thanks to their new "user-owned bike-sharing system:"
Here's the story from BikePortland:
A share of the revenue from each rental, Spinlister says, will go to each bike’s owner. (As with Spinlister’s existing peer-to-peer bike rental system, Spinlister will presumably get a cut.) The company even says that it “has plans to subsidize and finance the bicycles to allow users to pay the bicycles back through rental revenue over time.”
Naturally, this raises some questions:
There are a lot of unanswered questions here. How much will the bikes cost to buy? Who sets the rental prices? Who will keep the tires pumped? If a bike gets damaged, who decides who has to pay for repairs? If the brakes fail at the wrong moment and someone rolls into a fire hydrant, whose insurance policy is liable?
Though my main question is:
You're really going to rely on the average schmuck to lock the bike correctly?
At least with Citi Bike you have to use an actual station wait for the green light to tell you that you did it right. With this system it seems like just a matter of time before some bonehead locks a bike to a table leg and someone comes along, lifts the table, and makes off with the bike.
Also, the bikes seem too nice.
I guess we'll see.
Meanwhile, here in New York, we received a visit from a woman who's circumnavigating the globe via human power:
On the New Jersey side of the bridge, she met a photographer for The Times, Ashley Gilbertson.
He was also on a bike.
Mr. Gilbertson is making a documentary about bicycle messengers — from his own fixed-gear bike — so he had no problem taking Ms. Outen’s portrait while riding.
“It was a bit better shooting Sarah than the bike messengers,” he said. “Sarah, thankfully for me, not for her, was on a 150-pound bike.”
“She could only go so fast.”
He added, “It’s such a ‘Welcome to New York.’ You meet an Australian on a track bike who starts taking pictures of you as you cross the bridge.”
I would have turned around and gone straight back to Jersey.
Clearly she's a better person than I am though, and she even helped a Brompton rider fix a flat:
Slight delay for @SarahOuten - repairing a #W42ST punctured #Brompton on NY side of #GWBridge #HellsKitchen pic.twitter.com/k2D5P4oEy0
— W42ST (@w42st) March 12, 2015
This was very considerate of her, but why was repairing it even necessary? Why not just carry a second Brompton with you?And now, 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 will inherit the Earth, and if you're wrong you'll see a commercial.
Thanks very much for reading, ride safe, and always carry at least one spare Brompton.
--Wildcat Rock Machine
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2) Freds need incessant hand-holding, even when it comes to making a doody.
--True
--False
3) Which is a sign that fat bikes are like sooo over?
--Target sells them
--George Hincapie rides them
--Spring is like a week away
--All of the above
4) How much for these derailleur pulleys?
--$100
--$1,000
--$10,000
--Your soul
5) Inside the fairing, the rider is making "Pew-Pew-Pew!" laser sounds.
--True
--False
(UCI president Brian Cookson)
6) Which is not one of the measures the UCI is undertaking in the wake of the CIRC report?
--Work to enshrine a fit-and-proper-persons requirement in the team licensing process, focussed on the key roles in the staff, such as sports directors and doctors
--Work with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and other experts to analyse new substances and trends, to assess what should be added to the prohibited or monitored lists
--Work with WADA to improve the speed of athlete biological passport cases
--Work closely in order to further work in close proximity with those working to proactively effectuate the elimination of doping aw fuck it nobody's even reading this does anybody actually buy this bullshit?
7) Ahoy, Water Freds! The Schiller S1 is the Fixie of the Sea!
--True
--False
***Special "This Guy Has No Idea What He's Talking About"-Themed Bonus Video***
Please send me the tires, they're perfectly fine.
lantine blanc?
ReplyDeleteMan, I gotta get a life...
ReplyDeletePodiodio
ReplyDeletewow, top ten.
ReplyDeleteCiao ragazzi!
ReplyDeleteDammit missed the pudin, toppus eqqus i guess.
ReplyDeleteVai vai andiamo!!!
ReplyDelete8th? Seven people need to get a life!
ReplyDeleteno idea what you're talking about....
ReplyDeletebut Top 10!
The tire guy never noticed I used those $1,000 ninja throwing pulleys to puncture his tires.
ReplyDeleteThose are actually great tires. Something seems weird with his setup because I don't think Continental makes that tire in anything but 26". Rim looks too narrow as well.
ReplyDeleteI was slowed down by the goofy tiller effect resulting from running a 250mm stem of a 52cm frame. I did at least have enough sense to "slam" it, however.
ReplyDeleteGoogle translate auto-detected "Haitian Creole" when I entered quiz question #1. No wonder I can't understand them.
ReplyDeleteContis do give off those threads, though.
ReplyDeleteSnobbie, Warbler and Pinecone. There is no privacy.
ReplyDeleteI think I painted a portrait of a Haitian Creole once.
ReplyDeleteJust off the top 10 and I even stopped to watch the stupif fucking Audi commercial. Nice tossing the of the trash at 0.40 into the vid.
ReplyDeleteRB1,
ReplyDeleteIt's true, they do...and it has no effect whatsoever. (Though on my most grossly neglected bikes they do sometimes wind up wrapped around the axle.)
--Wildcat Rock machine
0.14
ReplyDeleteExcuse me…can you please tell me where the “Fon-Don’t” ride starts? Oh, and do you have some tube patches and a pump that I can borrow?
ReplyDeleteHaving a hard time getting "going" this morning. Looking for someone to give me a perineum massage per the Bicycling article. Anyone?
ReplyDeleteThat's strange, the Snob had nothing bad to say about Ms.Sarah Outen nor her trip.
ReplyDeleteMust be Friday the 13th.
happy friday - safe riding. i even hope you yankees get nice weather.
ReplyDeletesee, its not all lunacy,perversion, morse code and waka flocka flame in the comments section.
plenty of people have nice things to say.
cheers.
But can the Snob say something bad about this guy?
ReplyDeleteNew Hip Hipster Environ ...
ReplyDeleteArea south of the intersection of Scrotum Street & Anus Avenue ...
SoScranus!
Phil of Phrance,
ReplyDeleteNo point in getting snarkey about someone's epic trip. More power to her! I wish I had the time. Well, maybe I wouldn't after riding 1000 miles on a 150 lb bike, but no point in passing judgement on Sarah O. I hope she enjoys her travels through NYC.
Now, if Sarah told us all what to ride to achieve cycling nirvana (150 lbs of Fat Bike?) then let the snarking begin...
laterne brun
ReplyDeleteRe: Question 1.
ReplyDeleteWCRM,
I lost my fist a long time ago. Don't make me go Google this.
'He added, “It’s such a ‘Welcome to New York.’ You meet an Australian on a track bike who starts taking pictures of you as you cross the bridge.”
ReplyDeleteI would have turned around and gone straight back to Jersey.'
FerChrissakes - Have you BEEN to New Jersey !
Woulda won the podio but I spent 20 minutes deciphering the quiz question. I got it right though. Along with all the others.
ReplyDeleteThat person is nuts. What on Earth possesses someone to ride an upright bike across continents is beyond me. A comfy recumbent bike would work so much better for a ride like that.
On the opposite end of the spectrum I think the water fred sled is the perfect place to utilize the belt drive system.
Please show that still of Uma riding away from the camera again or at least recumbabe.
Have a nice weekend.
"No point in getting snarkey about someone's epic trip.
ReplyDeleteOf course. But when was the last time the Snob mentioned someone here adn did NOT say anything snarkly about them?
(Last time I remember is JULY 19, 2011 where he mentions Sam Whittingham in this post. That’s 1333 days and counting.)
Jeezum! That electronic lock has kickstarted $70K!?!?
ReplyDeleteAll that cutting and pasting and transmogrifying morse coditude yesterday paid off! STOP
ReplyDeleteOr, it was just a lucky guess. STOP
Still no Babe! I'm going back to New Jersey.
ReplyDeleteFUNQ UIZZ
FRID AY13
RIDE NICE
Yesterday, Paris-Nice coverage, the usual Chateau heleicopter porn shot.
ReplyDeleteBob R says something to the effect of "Not as many serfs in France to care for the grand chateau's of France anymore."
Love it, the guy has a way with words.
Is Continental a new sponsor?
ReplyDeleteThe Spinlister idea is not bad and the bikes are better. I would expect that someone who is going to go to the trouble of seeking such a system out can be trusted to lock the bike properly. I would rather ride one of those than a citibike and why the fuck do we need to advertise for Citibank? Think outside the box.
ReplyDeleteWow, glad I guessed at the NOKE question. I would have totes gone for the pasta since the lock's not entirely keyless and I'm feeling a little pedantic today. It'll pass - once I read Bicycling.
ReplyDeleteYesterday, Paris-Nice coverage, Bob R goes through an endless soliloquy on how doping doesn't just endanger the rider and the other riders on the team, but every member of the whole team. Uses Robobank as an example, team gone, sponsor gone (at least one sponsor wised and decided to take a shower).
ReplyDeleteHilarious, I'm quite confident that after hearing that, every rider in pro cycling flushed everything right down the toilet.
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous 2:13pm,
ReplyDeleteI think it's an intriguing idea, but I would not underestimate people's inability to lock bikes up improperly.
I also would like to know who is ultimately responsible in the case of theft or injury. Same goes for all these "sharing economy" companies. (Uber, Airbnb, et al.) Sharing economy sounds nice until the company doesn't want to share the blame.
As for advertising Citibank, I'm sure we'd love to see a more likable company step up to sponsor a bike share system, but I don't think they're falling over themselves to do it.
But I do think this Portland thing is intriguing, and certainly it's the right city in which to try it. (Small and bike-friendly.)
--Wildcat And So Forth
Desire to Defecate
ReplyDeleteImpaction @1:06 - That taint what I expected to read after massage in biekcycle mag
ReplyDeleteVideo was not HD enough to tell, but it appeared as if the numskull didn't seat the tire bead properly on the rim, resulting in the bulge.
ReplyDeleteBesides, I am told that there is nothing BabbleOn enjoys more than a nice bulge, n'est-ce pas?
Full disclosure: I have been running Continental tyres on my plastic dork chariot of late, and am quite pleased with them.
ReplyDeleteFirst bike share video at 1:29 is something to share
ReplyDeleteHow has Sarah Outen circumnavigated the globe using only human power?
ReplyDeleteShe "crossed the Pacific by rowboat and kayak." GTFOOH?!?
“It was a bit better shooting Sarah than the bike messengers,”
ReplyDeleteno, No, NO - shoot the messengers
A GODLESS FUCKATULAR IN THE MIND OF JESUS
ReplyDelete****ATTENTION ALL PODIA WHORES AND OTHER LURKING MISCREANTS****
ReplyDeleteSnob really got his jollies today by torturing you all and not posting till 12:33 PM. If you HOPE to win at this competitive level you had better be on the DOPE. Capisco?
no sh*%!so that was the straight poop on how to poop?
ReplyDeleteI was talking about our friend(fred)riding in Estonia.
bieks,
ReplyDeleteNot just the Morse code, also the Finnish.
Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!
ReplyDeleteI palped a pair of 26" T&C around deep stretches of india for a year and they worked fine. zero problems. I pooped a lot though, and often. Sometimes even in a toilet, but not often.
ReplyDeleteif you eat a tube of bike lube you can go doodie easier
ReplyDeleteMy friend has those tires. He used a Sharpie to make it say "tow a cunt."
ReplyDeleteUgh, anti-climatic tire fail video. I was kind of hoping that tire was going to explode as he was up close to it. Not that I wish him harm, but would have scared the crap out of the viewer. Sorry for the foul language, I'm Canadian.
ReplyDeleteTrama - maybe Bicycling should have suggested those T&C tires in their article as they were obviously the cause of your pooping. Never buy them again!
ReplyDelete...unless you can't poop. Then buy them.
ReplyDeleteI guess some people really are better off paying the L.B.S. to install a tire.
ReplyDeleteI also like the way he thinks the seam in the mold for the tread is the tire cracking apart. If this guy see his own ass-crack in a mirror he might end up doing something stupid.
I thought it was TERLET. My Conti Gators are unraveling.....it makes a nice majestic rustling sound over 19 mph.
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ReplyDeleteYou tease, and you flirt, and shine all the buttons on your green shirt
ReplyDeleteThat
ReplyDeleteWhy do Freds always repair their bikes in the middle of the fucking bike path?
ReplyDelete47 Traitors
ReplyDeleteWhen Sarah reaches Italy, my toilet has started to make a high pitched howling noise while the tank refills.
ReplyDeletePlease have her come over and check it out.
Mario Cippollini
Via C. Battisti 13
Lucca, Italy
morse code, awesomest quiz question ever!
ReplyDeletei'm just here for the dirt.
ReplyDeletenot the audi dirt.
Be the revolution...Isn't that a catchy little catch phrase! It works for me, for sure. And our bike share is so far from a go that I hope Spinlister comes here sooner than later, too.
ReplyDeleteIf you're a Canadian and you're swearing, you'd better not be in Taber, Alberta, cause you could end up behind bars. Not allowed to let your kids out past curfew, either, and you coukd be arrested for hanging with three of your friends, too. I Shit You Not.
And I don't need your help doing the doo doo, thank you, though of course any and all bulges are appreciated and carefully inspected. For safety's sake. Well, that's my story, anyway; and I'm sticking to it.
Whiskey
ReplyDeleteTango
Foxtrot
Two thoughts..
ReplyDelete1) Rental bikes......One size fits all??
2) Documentary about bicycle messengers........
We need a mockcumentary about bicycle messengers...(but then I thought, weren't all doccumentaries about bicycle messengers, really mockcumentaries??????)
I have it on good authority that the UCI has forced Peter Sagan to attend the 'Cipo Institute of Feminine Appreciation.' First class. Proper Podium Princess Palping 101.
ReplyDeleteMay lob be with you.
@bieks 3:37 and 3:38,
ReplyDeletecunts. Bicycling mag I mean.
It was a matter of timing, always a little trepidation when leaving a known good area of stunted trees and bushes, scanning the road for the next poop stand. The herds of laughing children running alongside didn't help either, I mean, it would have been a true spectacle and delight for them, but not for me.
Snob, how did you let the daily news get the scoop on this one. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/cyclist-flies-head-first-bike-spectator-grabs-tire-article-1.2148113
ReplyDeleteAt last!!!!! The solution to my problem of chronic idler pulley breakage! And they're two grams lighter!
ReplyDeleteO perfect bliss!
Shazaam! Conti/GatorSkin shedding is a thing? I blamed the cat for using my tires for a scratching post. But they don't go flat, so I don't care.
ReplyDeleteFenders are awesome.
ReplyDeletea) Ashley is a guy?
ReplyDeleteb) Aren't your friends at Brooks going to be mad you didn't say anything about Sarah's saddle?
Ashley Roachclip of the Jefferson Hair Pie?
ReplyDeleteWho is counting
ReplyDeleteRide safe all!
ReplyDeleteI didn't have time to digest the dejecta disquisition delivered by Bicycling so my dog summarized it for me:
If you've never fucked, shit.
But if you've never shit, fuck!
I think he's paraphrasing George Carlin, but what do I know.
Still not funding his Kickstarter scheme to repurpose errant continental tire threads as hair extensions.
I had a similar exposed thread turn into a proper bulge. I think it was on straight with normal-ish pressure.
ReplyDeleteI've had a proper bulge turn into exposed head.....
ReplyDeleteMorning scranus massage therapy time
ReplyDeleteCame in a did a little of the Saturday work cuz it's raining anyway what to do what to do when I get off OHH THAT'S RIGHT I GOT SOME SWEET ASS PLANET BIKE 35 MM HARDCORE FENDERS BEECHEZ...I shall ride.
ReplyDeleteEuro (Dutch?) commercial ...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KShkhIXdf1Y&feature=youtu.be
I was sooo waiting for the conti tire to blow off the rim and see him recoil like a fart to the face
ReplyDeleteSnob:
ReplyDeleteIs Putin at your place?
Can't find him.
That Conti tire hater doesn't know how to properly mount a tire...probably not the only thing he can't properly mount.
ReplyDeleteIt is porning rain
ReplyDeleteIn days of old
ReplyDeleteWith wheelmen bold
And toilets not invented
They dropped their load
Beside the road
And rode away contented.
I'm starting a petition ...
ReplyDeleteCHANGE URANUS TO SCRANUS
THIS DRUNKEN ASTRONOMER JOKE HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH!
YOUR ANUS IS PORNOLOGICAL AND MUST BE CHANGED!
SPARE THE CHILDREN!
50 shades of poo
ReplyDeleteI think Putin's on the Ritz
ReplyDeleteThe Vaginal Equinox is almost here ...
ReplyDeleteNon è la natura meravigliosa.
Atention bikers in Spain: Trampas Salvajes contra Ciclistas: http://youtu.be/g-rsBMT9_dU
ReplyDeleteuno
ReplyDeletedos
ReplyDeletetres
ReplyDeletelove the new captcha
ReplyDeleteMr. Sanchez, those were damn scary.
ReplyDeleteRight?! There's a war going on in them thar hills. Thank goodness for CCTV, cause you never know whose little ole granny is out to getcha.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the regional Fred Ride spectacular, because, you know, the inner Fred has got to get a day in the sun.
ReplyDeleteSomeone has a flat on the side of the road one of the hills and as I'm grinding along the climb says out loud, "It's a good thing there is an iphone to explain how to change a flat."
There was another who apparently did not know how to operate a pump. He emptied his CO2 thing-a-majig some KM's back and did not have the tire seated right. As I roll up on him riding along and coasting and ducking down to look at his front tire every once in a while because he's feeling bump-bump-bump as the KM's go by. I offered my pump to get the tire reseated right because no more Fredly CO2 but he would not use it. ????
Also witnessed a whole flock of Carmichael doping system riders in full Carmichael, it's not doping unless you are on the lawsuit, doping kit, with special doping support in addition to the ride's rest stops.
I am missing out on a tonne of money! Let me dope your children and then I'll promise to coach you to cat 6 glory on your local Fred ride.
This Carmichael business is crazy. It's the equivalent of a Madhoff IRA account.
Only in cycling!
Human is great! I especially enjoy the bone marrow.
ReplyDeleteAND THE 'I WAS ONLY HOLDING IT FOR A FRIEND' CONTEST WINNER IS
ReplyDeleteThis from January 22, 2015 ...
Updated: Rasmussen testimony implicates Mario Zorzoli, UCI’s chief medical officer
Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/01/news/rasmussen-testimony-implicates-mario-zorzoli-ucis-chief-medical-officer_359005#z2B47OxCkovmtiE7.99
What's the best fixie? Fixie of the sea.
ReplyDeleteSorry Charlie ...
Bikecycling on the radio in DC this morning ... Shocking - people like to be protected from cars
ReplyDeleteTuning into the “network”
When Mike DeVoll, 28, moved to Washington four years ago to work as a political consultant, he started commuting by bus. He soon tried Capital Bikeshare, which turned out to be his “gateway drug” to buying his own bike.
But what clinched his decision to commute by bicycle was the completion of the M Street Northwest cycle track, which cuts west through downtown and connects with the 15th Street Northwest cycle track.
He uses both protected lanes daily to get from his home in Logan Circle to Arlington. “It makes it hard not to ride to work because you are protected the whole way,” DeVoll said.
“My girlfriend’s office is moving to right off M Street. She is not a bike for transportation person at all, but she is starting to say she might try it because there is a protected lane there,” he said.
A national survey by the advocacy group PeopleForBikes underscored the importance of feeling safe in encouraging bicycling.
Fifty-four percent of U.S. adults said bicycling was a convenient way of getting around and 53 percent would like to ride more often, the survey said. However, more than half feared being hit by a car and forty-six percent said they would be more likely to ride a bicycle if they were physically separated from traffic.
“One in three Americans rode a bike last year, so the question is why aren't those people riding bikes for transportation? The number one concern is safety. People just don't feel safe riding on the street,” said Greg Billing at the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA), an advocacy group.
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